Jay-Z's Wrist Worth More Than Your Car, Plane, and Probably Your House

KEY POINTS

•Jay-Z owns a vast collection of luxury watches from brands like Patek Philippe, Hublot, and Richard Mille.
•In 2012, Beyoncé gifted him a $5 million diamond-covered Hublot Big Bang that took over a year to assemble.
•His $1,075,652 Patek Philippe from the 2025 Grammys tracks the calendar until 2100 and includes an alligator strap.

Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, treats watches like other people treat pets—obsessively and with expensive taste. From dropping $1,075,652 on a diamond-studded Patek Philippe Grand Complication 5304-301R at the 2025 Grammys, which tracks leap years until 2100 (because why not plan that far?), to flaunting a $5 million diamond-encrusted Hublot Big Bang gifted by Beyoncé herself in 2012 after 14 months of diamond hunting. Then he flexed his own 350-piece limited Shawn Carter Hublot Classic Fusion collection in 2013, before rocking custom Richard Mille masterpieces costing between $2.5 to $3 million—crafted over thousands of hours and even featuring rare green sapphire crystals, because regular sapphires are just too pedestrian. He sports these blinking wallet bombs at US Open tennis matches and awards shows like he’s announcing, 'I don’t just tell time; I own it.' P.S. He literally rhymed 'time is money' and somehow upgraded that from rap metaphor to wrist reality.