I saw Bruce Springsteen play “Highway 61 Revisited” with Bob Dylan at Shea Stadium in 2003 and then the entirety of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle at Madison Square Garden with a full horn section in 2009. I caught The Boss again on Broadway in 2017 when he rocked out on nothing but an acoustic guitar and shushed the audience when they tried to sing along. I’ve seen Springsteen a lot, but I’d never seen this dude wear AAA UK replica watches. However, it seems that at some point over the past few years the Boss became an extremely discerning watch collector.
Our latest evidence of his watch glow-up comes courtesy of a Rolling Stone interview in which Springsteen wore a killer timepiece. I don’t know precisely when The Boss came around to the charms of Swiss horology, but I don’t think the vintage perfect 1:1 fake Breitling 765 Co-Pilot watches on his wrist was simply pulled from the depths of a sock drawer. Nicknamed after famed skier Jean-Claude Killy after he wore one at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the ref. 765 Co-Pilot is far from first-vintage-watch territory. The 765 is well-known to dedicated chronograph collectors and is the type of piece one has to seek out. The watch’s rarity is what makes finding it on Springsteen’s wrist so interesting. (Hat tip to watch journalist Nick Gould for this masterful spot.)
The 765 is only the latest vintage stunner Springsteen’s rocked. In 2020, Bruuuuuce was spotted with a vintage Heuer Autavia ref. 1163 “Orange Boy.” The Boss may not have a massive collection, but the pieces he does have are deep cuts, indicating someone passionate, and selective, about horology. Like the Orange Boy, the 765 is a sleeper hit.
Large for the era when it was produced, the 765 is a 40-mm stainless steel chrono with a 12-hour register and a triple-register chronograph layout displaying a 15-minute totalizer, a 12-hour totalizer, and a running seconds indicator. Powered by the hand-wound Venus 178 movement, one will run you perhaps from $15K to $20K on the vintage market today—certainly not vintage Daytona territory, but not entry-level stuff, either. Due to its diameter, this Breitling is perfectly sized for today’s tastes—perhaps even oversized, if things keep trending the way they’re trending—and hasn’t really seen the wild price fluctuations that have affected many other vintage models in recent years.
I’m not sure what to think: In over 20 years of going to Bruce shows, seeing him wearing a watch now is vaguely jarring. But as someone who pens a column on celebrities wearing cool watches, I’m also fascinated. Where did this all come from? Did a lost Uber driver drop Mike Nouveau off in Colts Neck? Is Eric Wind hanging around the Stone Pony, slinging vintage tool high quality copy watches? Did James Lamdin turn The Boss onto the joys of Laphroaig 10?!
This was most certainly not on my Boss Bingo card, but as someone with a golden retriever named Kitty, I’m enjoying the hell out of it. Let’s get this guy a ’70s Tudor Snowflake and keep the party going.
Mark Wahlberg’s Replica Patek Philippe Cubitus ref. 5281/1A Watches
Patek’s first collection in 25 years has been setting the Watch Instagram aflame since its launch in Munich last week. Mark Wahlberg was clearly an early adopter as he was spotted taking off his green-dialed reference 5821/1A in stainless steel before getting into his personal sauna. Measuring 45 mm in diameter and featuring an integrated bracelet in the mode of Gérald Genta’s famous ’70s designs—including, of course, Patek’s own Nautilus—the large-and-in-charge Cubitus is certainly not compact by today’s standards, but wears comfortably nonetheless due to its extremely flat case. Nevertheless, the new best UK Patek Philippe fake watches will have to fight for wrist time against other modern classics in Wahlberg’s collection like the ref. 5330G-001.
Patrick Dempsey’s Fake TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Extreme Sport Watches
It’s tough to be a race car driver and not love top TAG Heuer replica watches. Patrick Dempsey, who played an Italian racer in Michael Mann’s Ferrari, understands the Swiss watchmaker’s symbiotic relationship with the automotive world all too well. A TAG Heuer brand ambassador, he’s a natural fit for luxury super clone watches such as the Carrera Chronograph Extreme Sport, which he wore to the George H. W. Bush Points of Light Awards this week. Clocking in at 44 mm in 18k 5n rose gold and grade 2 titanium, it features a rhodium-plated, skeletonized dial with rose-gold accents framing the TH20-00 automatic movement within. A modern, high-tech incarnation of the original Carrera chronograph from 1963, it’s the sort of timepiece tailor-made for a racing fiend like Dempsey.
Paul Mescal’s Cartier Tank Mini Replica Watches
Just when we thought that watches couldn’t get any teensier, actor Paul Mescal shows up to the Annual Academy Museum Gala in Swiss made replica Cartier Tank Mini watches—the tiny watch of the year, and one of the chicest releases of Watches and Wonders 2024. Measuring just 16.5-mm wide in 18k yellow gold and powered by a quartz movement, it’s the type of watch that would’ve been firmly categorized as a ladies’ piece just a handful of years ago. Alas, no more: With male celebrities such as Timothée Chalamet, Dwayne Wade, Usher, and now Mescal rocking small copy watches wholesale UK on red carpets across the world, these teensy timekeepers are finally going mainstream. (Just don’t forget to wear your monocle to the Academy Museum so you can make out the time on the Tank’s itty-bitty dial.)
