Drake's Insane Multi-Million Dollar Watch Collection

This is the single most significant watch Drake owns, and it did not come from a boutique waiting list. Rolex built the piece unique "Ice Man" Daytona for him directly to mark his record-breaking 2026, and he unveiled it on Instagram in August 2026 as the most important thing he has ever had the pleasure of owning. The dial is fully pavé with blue baguette sapphire hour markers, sapphires run across the bezel and lugs, and the bracelet carries a graduated setting that moves from colorless diamonds into progressively deeper blue sapphires down the wrist. The caseback is engraved "Freeze the World", tying the watch directly to his Iceman era. There is no reference number, no retail price, and no second example, and collector estimates for the piece have run as high as seven figures several times over.

This is one of the rarest watches in Drake's entire collection. The Daytona "Asprey" is a confirmed collaboration between Rolex and British jeweler Asprey, featuring a turquoise dial signed by Asprey beneath the Cosmograph text and a matching turquoise gemstone bezel set into an 18k white gold case. The piece sits on a white gold Oyster bracelet. These references were never produced in any meaningful quantity, and Drake's example is one of very few known to exist anywhere in the world. It remains the headline catalogue piece of his collection.

Drake's pink Daytona is one of the most photographed pieces in his arsenal. The 18k yellow gold case carries a pink baguette gemstone bezel framed by diamond-set lugs, a pink dial with matching subdials, and a soft pink alligator strap. The watch surfaces regularly across his social posts, including the now-famous "Life Is Short, Party Hard" tee photo. Custom Daytona configurations of this depth are not catalogue Rolex, they are factory-modified pieces commissioned through select boutiques and they command serious premiums on the secondary market.

The Rainbow Daytona 116595RBOW is the Everose gold reference with a rainbow sapphire baguette bezel, diamond-set lugs, and a pavé diamond dial with chronograph subdials in matching rose gold. The bracelet is fully diamond-set across center and outer links, finishing one of the most heavily commissioned configurations Rolex has ever offered at the boutique level. Drake's example is photographed in low light against a tie-dye backdrop, the gradient sapphire bezel catching exactly the kind of color play this reference was designed to produce. The Rainbow has been discontinued and reaches well into six figures on the secondary market.

The Paul Newman Daytona is the watch that transformed Rolex into a collector's brand. Reference 6239 was produced in tiny numbers across the 1960s, with an exotic Art Deco dial that was largely overlooked at retail and only later understood as one of the most important configurations in modern watchmaking. Drake's example surfaces with him courtside at Toronto Raptors games, paired with vintage denim. Original-condition Paul Newman pieces have crossed the seven-figure mark at major auction houses, and the 6239 reference is the configuration that started it all in 1963.

The Daytona reference 116578SACO is a factory gem-set configuration in 18k yellow gold with an orange sapphire baguette bezel and a white mother-of-pearl dial set with diamond hour markers. Drake wears it in one of the most circulated photos of his style, paired with a Princess Diana "England's Rose" tribute t-shirt. The orange-on-yellow-gold contrast and gem-set bezel push this beyond the catalogue gold Daytona, into the category of factory-modified configurations that Rolex builds in extremely limited numbers for select clients across the world.

The Daytona reference 16568TBR is a yellow gold zenith-era piece with baguette diamond bezel, ruby hour markers, and a fully pavé diamond dial set with mother-of-pearl chronograph subdials. The watch dates to the late 1990s era of Rolex collaboration with Zenith for the chronograph movement, predating the in-house caliber 4130. Drake's example surfaces on his wrist over a textured throw, the rubies and pavé diamonds catching ambient light. Vintage gold Daytona pieces with full gem-set configurations are increasingly difficult to source in original condition, especially with the original ruby and diamond layout intact.

Nicknamed the "Giraffe" by collectors, this Everose gold Daytona reference 126555TBR features a brown lacquer dial with a custom giraffe-print pattern across the chronograph subdials, a fully baguette diamond bezel, and diamond-set lugs. The watch is paired to a brown Oysterflex strap, finishing one of the most aggressive custom Daytona builds Drake owns. Photos with this piece flood his Instagram, often with the watchguys.com tag still visible on the dial. Aftermarket factory builds at this level are not standard catalogue items, they sit in their own tier of the Rolex universe.

The 116576TBR is the platinum Daytona with a fully pavé diamond dial, applied diamond hour markers, baguette diamond bezel, and the standard platinum Oyster bracelet. Drake owns this reference in multiple dial executions, including an ice blue pavé and a chocolate-toned pavé variant photographed inside its presentation case. Platinum Daytona references are produced in extremely limited annual quantities, and the gem-set dial variants are even more restricted. The 116576TBR sits at the top of the platinum sport-chronograph segment, with retail pricing that exceeded $200,000 even before any secondary market premium.

The 126538TBR is the 18k yellow gold Daytona with a fully baguette diamond bezel, champagne sunburst dial set with baguette diamond hour markers, and matching baguette diamond lug accents on an Oysterflex strap. Drake's example surfaces in a candid moment with the watch in clear view, the warm gold and champagne tones reading classically restrained against the heavy gem setting. Yellow gold baguette bezel configurations remain among the most-requested factory modifications in the Daytona catalogue, particularly with the rubber strap option that keeps the visual weight of the case fully on the dial and bezel.

The 116568BR is the 18k yellow gold Daytona configured with a black mother-of-pearl dial, diamond hour markers, and gold chronograph subdials on the matching yellow gold Oyster bracelet. Mother-of-pearl is cut from natural shell, so no two dials carry the same grain or the same depth of color, which is why collectors chase individual examples rather than the reference itself. Drake wears it courtside in a burnt orange knit polo, the dial reading almost aubergine under arena lighting. It is one of the quieter gem-set pieces in his Daytona rotation, and that restraint is exactly what makes it work as an everyday gold chronograph.

The 116588TBR arrived at Baselworld 2019 as an off-catalogue Daytona and picked up its nickname within hours of the first photos circulating. The 40mm case is solid 18k yellow gold, the bezel carries 36 trapeze-cut diamonds in place of the usual tachymeter scale, and the dial is a tiger-stripe pattern built from black lacquer and 243 brilliant-cut diamonds with eleven diamond hour markers worked directly into the motif. Underneath is the standard in-house calibre 4130 with a 72-hour power reserve, fitted to a black Oysterflex bracelet with a yellow gold Oysterlock clasp. Rolex never listed the reference in the catalogue and built it in very small numbers, which is why values have climbed steeply past the original retail. It is the loudest dial Rolex has ever signed off on, and it belongs in this rotation.

The platinum Daytona reference 116506 has earned the nickname "Platona" among collectors. Drake's example carries the standard ice blue dial with chestnut brown Cerachrom bezel and platinum bracelet, fitted with a baguette diamond hour marker configuration. Released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the model, the 116506 was originally produced in limited numbers and reserved for top Rolex clients. The discontinued status, paired with the platinum case and chestnut Cerachrom bezel, has driven this reference well above retail on the open market in recent years.

Rolex unveiled the 126518LN at Watches and Wonders in April 2025 and collectors had named it before the release video finished. The turquoise blue lacquer dial sits close enough to the Tiffany & Co house colour that the nickname stuck instantly, though there is no connection between the two brands and never has been. The case is 40mm of solid 18k yellow gold with a black Cerachrom bezel and the Oysterflex bracelet, running the calibre 4131 with a 72-hour power reserve. Rolex has kept the turquoise dial exclusive to yellow gold on the Daytona, so there is no steel version and no cheaper route in. Retail sat around $37,000 and the reference has traded at three to four times that since launch, which makes it one of the fastest appreciating Daytona configurations of the decade. Our Tiffany Daytona page tracks current availability.

The yellow gold Daytona 116508 with green dial earned its "John Mayer" nickname after the musician championed the reference on the Hodinkee "Talking Watches" episode. Drake wears the watch frequently with his everyday gold chains and casual fits. The combination of the 18k yellow gold case, sunburst green dial, and matching Oyster bracelet became one of the most-requested Daytona configurations on the secondary market, with values rising sharply after the John Mayer interview aired. The reference was discontinued in 2023, further pushing market values upward.

This is the piece in the President rotation that Rolex had nothing to do with past the case. The watch starts as an 18k yellow gold Day-Date with a baguette bezel and a champagne diamond dial, then the factory President bracelet is stripped off and replaced with a solid gold Chrome Hearts link bracelet carrying the brand's cross and floral motifs picked out in diamonds. Chrome Hearts has been building this kind of hardware for Drake and his circle for years, and the crossover between Los Angeles jewelry culture and Swiss watchmaking is exactly the territory he operates in. Aftermarket work of this depth voids any Rolex warranty and takes the watch out of the collector market entirely, which is the point. There is only one, and it was built for him.

The 228396TBR is the 40mm platinum Day-Date with full baguette diamond bezel and ice blue dial. Drake pairs the watch with diamond bracelets courtside at Toronto Raptors games, where it picks up cameras every time he checks his phone. Ice blue dials are reserved for platinum Rolex models exclusively, a tradition the brand has held since the metal first entered the catalogue in 2002. The 228396TBR sits at the top of the modern Day-Date hierarchy from a metal and gem-setting standpoint, retailing well into six figures even before secondary market premium.

The 128458TBR is the 36mm yellow gold Day-Date carrying a baguette diamond bezel and diamond-set lugs, built here with a turquoise dial and pink sapphire baguette hour markers on a magenta alligator strap. The TBR suffix in Rolex's coding system signals a baguette-set bezel, and combining that with colored stone markers over a turquoise face is about as far from the standard champagne President as the configurator goes. Drake wears it with a Snowman graphic tee and a stack of colored bracelets, deliberately playing the pink and turquoise off each other rather than hiding them. Colored sapphire marker layouts are commissioned in single-digit quantities per dial color, which is why examples almost never surface publicly.

The 228348RBR is the 40mm yellow gold Day-Date with a brilliant-cut diamond bezel and a fully diamond-paved dial set with ten baguette-cut hour markers, finished on the yellow gold President bracelet. Paving a Day-Date dial is a different discipline to paving a bezel, since the stones have to run flush around the day aperture at twelve and the date window at three without the pattern breaking or the apertures losing their frame. The calibre 3255 underneath is the same movement as the plain gold President, with a 70-hour power reserve and the instantaneous day and date changeover at midnight. Drake reaches for the paved configurations when he wants the President to read as jewelry rather than as a dress watch, and this is the most heavily stone-set dial Rolex offers in the standard 40mm catalogue.

The 36mm Day-Date 128234RBR comes in 18k yellow gold with a diamond-set bezel and a genuine turquoise stone dial. Drake has been spotted in this piece courtside at NBA games, shouting at officials with the watch fully exposed on the wrist. Stone dials remain among the most collectible Day-Date configurations, with turquoise sitting alongside opal, lapis, and onyx as the most desirable variants. The 128234RBR is the modern interpretation, with the 36mm proportions Rolex returned to in the latest generation of the President.

The 228398TBR is the 40mm yellow gold Day-Date with a baguette diamond bezel and champagne sunburst dial set with baguette diamond hour markers. Drake wears the watch in casual neutrals, photographed in a park with linen pants and an off-white tee, the gold case catching the sun against the soft tones. The combination of the warm champagne dial and matching gold case across a heavily gem-set bezel is the textbook configuration for a "classic" modern President with maximum jeweled presence. The 228398TBR is the gem-set sibling to Drake's standard 228238 Day-Date.

The 128159RBR is the 36mm Day-Date in 18k white gold, set with diamonds across the case, bezel and lugs, carrying a pavé diamond dial with turquoise Roman numerals on a matching turquoise alligator strap. Coloured stone numerals are a boutique commission rather than a catalogue option, and turquoise against white gold is a harder combination to land than it looks, because there is no warm metal anywhere to soften the contrast between the stones and the pavé. Underneath sits the calibre 3255 with its 70-hour power reserve and instantaneous day and date. Drake owns this one and its yellow gold twin below, built on the same template in opposite temperatures. Buying colour in matched pairs like this is a collector move rather than a styling accident.

The yellow gold counterpart to the turquoise 128159RBR, the 128158RBR runs the same 36mm case fully set with diamonds, the same pavé diamond dial and the same Roman numeral layout, executed here in burnt orange against warm gold with an orange alligator strap. Rolex will cut these numerals in almost any stone colour for the right client, and orange is one of the least requested in the book, which is precisely why it turns up here. The day wheel and date disc are colour matched to the numerals, a detail that exists only because somebody asked for it at the order stage. Drake wears the pair interchangeably depending on the fit, which is an extremely expensive way to accessorise. Roman numeral pavé Day-Dates in this configuration rarely surface publicly in either metal.

The white gold Day-Date 128349RBR features a pink dial set with diamond Roman numerals, a fully diamond-set bezel, and a diamond-paved President bracelet. Drake's photo with this piece, throwing up a finger to the camera courtside, became one of the most reposted watch shots on his timeline. Pink dials remain rare in the official Rolex catalogue, particularly in white gold, and the diamond-set bracelet places this watch at the top of the configurable Day-Date 36 menu, with retail pricing exceeding most catalogue gold sport models.

The 40mm yellow gold Day-Date 228238 is the closest thing Drake owns to a "classic" President. Champagne dial with diamond hour markers, fluted bezel, and the standard President bracelet, all in 18k yellow gold. Drake has worn this piece across years of OVO content, including with his Toronto Raptors championship ring at the Essentials hoodie launch. The 228238 is the catalogue 40mm President at retail, and the most accessible (relatively speaking) entry into Drake's Day-Date rotation, sitting beneath the gem-set and platinum references in this section.

The Sky-Dweller 326959TBR is the white gold annual calendar GMT, fully iced out across case, lugs, bezel, and bracelet with baguette diamonds. The white silvered dial retains the rotating ring command bezel function and the second time zone disc at the dial center, both engineering signatures of the Sky-Dweller line. Drake's example is photographed at home with diamond chains and the watchguys.com tag visible on the dial. Fully gem-set Sky-Dweller configurations are rarely produced, and white gold examples are among the rarest references in the entire Sky-Dweller catalogue.

The GMT-Master II reference 116758SANR is the 18k yellow gold version with sapphire baguette and diamond bezel and matching diamond-set crown guard. Drake wears it with a black dial and gold Oyster bracelet, photographed at home over candlelight with his "Care Package" album artwork in the background. This is also the watch on the cover of "Take Care", which makes it one of the most recognizable single references in modern hip-hop. Factory gem-set GMT-Master II configurations are produced in extremely limited numbers, and once discontinued, secondary market values on this reference doubled almost overnight.

The Yacht-Master 226668TBR is the 42mm yellow gold reference, factory configured with baguette diamond bezel, diamond-set lugs, pavé diamond dial, and matching rubber Oysterflex strap. Drake's example surfaces in a candid wrist shot in jeans and a denim jacket, the watch reading less formal than its specification suggests. Diamond-set Yacht-Master references are an uncommon factory commission for Rolex, particularly the full pavé dial configuration in solid gold. The 226668TBR sits among the most heavily jeweled current-production sport models in the entire Rolex catalogue.

This Pearlmaster Datejust reference 86348SABLV is 18k yellow gold with a rainbow sapphire bezel, diamond-set bracelet links, and a pavé Roman numeral dial. Drake wore the watch in a "Wait Till U See My..." tee in the now-circulated palm tree photo. The Pearlmaster line is Rolex's most heavily jeweled Datejust offering, and the 86348SABLV with rainbow gradient is one of the rarest configurations the brand officially produces. These are not catalogue pieces in the standard sense, they are commissioned through select boutiques on extended waiting lists.

The white gold counterpart to Drake's yellow gold Pearlmaster, the 86349SAFUBL runs a graduated sapphire bezel that transitions from deep blue through violet into hot pink, set over an aubergine sunburst dial with diamond hour markers. Rolex builds these gradient bezels by hand-sorting stones for color progression, which is why no two examples run the same sequence and why the setting work alone takes longer than the rest of the watch. Drake wears it in a grey Nike hoodie with a diamond eternity ring, one of the more understated fits in which a bezel like this has ever appeared. The 86349 case is the 39mm Pearlmaster, the largest size Rolex offered in the line before it was quietly retired.

The 336938 is the 42mm Sky-Dweller in solid 18k yellow gold with a black dial, fluted Ring Command bezel, and the gold Oyster bracelet, updated in 2023 with the caliber 9002 and a redesigned bracelet. Underneath sits the Saros annual calendar, which reads the difference between 30 and 31 day months mechanically and only needs correcting once a year, plus a 24-hour second time zone on the off-center disc. Drake wears it on stage in a camo bomber, the gold catching stage light every time the mic comes up. This is the straight catalogue Sky-Dweller with no stones anywhere on it, which makes it one of the most conventional Rolex pieces in his rotation and the most complicated movement Rolex builds.

The 1908 is the quietest thing Rolex makes and the least likely watch in Drake's collection. Launched in 2023 as the replacement for the Cellini line, the 52508 is a 39mm solid 18k yellow gold case with a domed and fluted bezel, an intense black dial carrying faceted gold Arabic numerals and applied markers, and a small seconds register at six o'clock. It runs the calibre 7140, a movement built specifically for this watch and visible through a transparent caseback, which is something Rolex has offered almost nowhere else in the catalogue. Drake's example is on the Settimo bracelet, the seven-link solid gold design Rolex introduced for the 1908 and has not used on any other model since. There is not a single stone on it, no date, no complication and nothing that signals the collection it sits in, which is the entire appeal.

The 5723/1R is the 18k rose gold Nautilus fitted with a baguette-cut diamond bezel and baguette diamond hour markers over a chocolate brown dial carrying the horizontal Nautilus embossing. What separates it from the 5719 is restraint. The bezel and markers are set, the case and bracelet are not, which leaves the original Gérald Genta case profile fully visible instead of buried under stones. Drake wears it courtside in Toronto in a black paint-splatter Nike hoodie, the warm rose gold and brown dial reading almost muted next to everything else in this section. Patek produces the gem-set Nautilus references in tiny annual quantities and allocates them to established clients only, so the 5723/1R rarely reaches the open market.

The 5719/10R-010 is the 18k rose gold Nautilus with full baguette diamond bezel, baguette-set bracelet, and a fully diamond pavé dial with diamond-set baton hour markers. Drake's example surfaces courtside at a Toronto Raptors game, paired with a denim jacket and shearling collar where the warm rose gold case picks up arena lighting on every camera cut. The 5719 series is the gem-set production line of the Nautilus, made in extremely limited quantities and reserved for select Patek Philippe clients. The rose gold variant remains the rarest of the metal options for this reference.

This is the last word on the steel 5711 and arguably the most sought-after Nautilus of the modern era. Patek released the 5711/1300A-001 in 2021 as a farewell to the reference, pairing the olive green dial with a bezel set with 32 baguette diamonds, the only time the brand has ever fitted baguettes to a steel Nautilus. Production ran for a matter of months before the 5711 was retired entirely, and the watch never had a formal retail allocation in most markets. Drake wears it in a leopard print camp shirt leaning over a table, which is a very specific way to wear one of the hardest watches in the world to buy. Values on the green dial 5711 references climbed past the gem-set gold Nautilus pieces almost immediately after discontinuation.

The white gold counterpart to Drake's rose gold 5719, the 5719/10G shares the full baguette diamond bezel, baguette-set bracelet, and pavé diamond dial layout, executed entirely in 18k white gold. Drake wore the watch with a Bob Marley printed shirt at a public appearance, where the dial flash dominated the frame on every photo. Owning both the rose gold and white gold variants of the 5719 in parallel is a flex specific to top-tier Patek collectors. Fewer than a handful of these pieces enter the secondary market in any given year worldwide.

Patek built the 5976/1G-001 in 2016 to mark forty years of the Nautilus, limited to 1,300 pieces in 18k white gold. The 44mm case is the largest the Nautilus has ever used, the blue gradient dial carries a commemorative 1976 to 2016 marking across the center, and the baguette diamond hour markers were a first for a Nautilus chronograph. Underneath is the flyback chronograph caliber CH 28-520 C with the 60-minute monocounter that has defined the Nautilus chronograph since 2006. Drake's example appears alongside other pieces in a video-still wrist stack. Anniversary Nautilus references have been among the strongest performers in the entire Patek secondary market since the 5711 was retired.

The 5740/1G is the Patek Philippe Nautilus Perpetual Calendar in 18k white gold, the thinnest perpetual calendar Patek has produced inside the Nautilus case. The blue dial with day, date, month, and moonphase apertures retains the Nautilus horizontal embossing despite the complication-heavy layout. Drake wore it for a red-carpet appearance, paired with an OVO tie-dye hoodie. The 5740/1G replaced the legendary 5712 at the top of the Nautilus complication ladder and has held a long retail wait list since launch.

The 5980/1R-001 is the Nautilus flyback chronograph in solid 18k rose gold on the integrated gold bracelet, with a black-brown gradient dial carrying the standard horizontal embossing. Patek's monocounter layout combines the elapsed hours and minutes into a single subdial at six o'clock, which keeps the dial clean and is one of the few chronograph solutions in the industry that nobody else copied. Drake's example appears in a wrist stack alongside a gold President in video footage. The rose gold 5980 is the warmest execution of the reference and one of the more wearable pieces in a collection dominated by stone-set configurations.

This is one of the most discussed pieces of custom watch work of the past decade. Reportedly customized in collaboration with the late Virgil Abloh, Drake's all-green Nautilus features full emerald baguette setting on the bezel, case sides, and bracelet, plus a fully gem-set green dial with moonphase and date apertures retained. The watch surfaces in Drake's video work and certain walk-in interview clips. Because the piece is one-of-one with no formal market comparison, market value remains undisclosed. Pieces of this customization tier rarely if ever change hands publicly.

The 5271P-010 is the most serious watchmaking Drake owns. Platinum case, baguette diamond bezel and lugs, black dial, and inside it the CH 29-535 PS Q, a manually wound perpetual calendar chronograph with day, month, leap year, moonphase and a 24-hour indicator, one of the movements Patek's reputation actually rests on. Perpetual calendar chronographs are the reference class collectors use to judge a manufacture, and Patek has built them continuously since 1941. Drake's example is photographed on a black alligator strap while he holds his son, which is a very deliberate choice of watch for that particular photo. This is a heirloom-tier complication with heavy stone setting applied on top, a combination the brand builds in single-digit numbers.

The 5968A-001 was the first chronograph Patek ever put in the Aquanaut case, launched in 2018 in stainless steel with a black embossed dial and orange accents across the chronograph track, hands, and composite strap. The flyback chronograph movement is the same CH 28-520 C architecture that runs the Nautilus chronograph, dropped into the more casual Aquanaut format with a screw-down crown and 120m water resistance. Drake wears it at the Toronto Raptors championship parade in a Nike tee, arm around the crowd, which is exactly the environment this watch was designed for. The orange 5968A has become the reference collectors point to when they want a Patek sports chronograph that does not read as formal.

The Golden Ellipse is the quietest watch in Drake's collection and one of the most historically interesting. Patek introduced the line in 1968 with case proportions built on the golden ratio, and this 3609/1 is the white gold execution with a double row diamond bezel, the signature blue sunburst dial with diamond hour markers, and a woven white gold mesh bracelet. There is no complication here and no sports case, just a thin manual movement and the proportions, which is why the Ellipse has stayed a collector's watch rather than a hype reference. Drake's example is photographed fresh out of its original box on a wooden table, which suggests a recent acquisition rather than a piece pulled from the rotation. Vintage Ellipse references in white gold with factory stone setting are considerably harder to find than the yellow gold examples.

Drake does not wear one Royal Oak Mini, he wears three at once. The Mini is the smallest case Audemars Piguet has ever put the Royal Oak design into, shrinking the octagonal bezel, the exposed hexagonal screws, and the integrated tapisserie dial down to a scale originally built as a ladies' dress watch. He stacks a yellow gold, a white gold, and a rose gold example on the same wrist alongside a diamond bracelet, which turns three individually restrained watches into a single very loud statement. Wearing multiple watches at once is an old jeweler's move rather than a collector's one, and Drake is one of very few people executing it with solid gold Royal Oaks. Taken together the three carry a market value around $300,000.

This is the anti-Drake watch in Drake's collection. Audemars Piguet built the 15400ST.OO.1220ST.02 with Matthew Williams of 1017 ALYX 9SM in a run of 40 pieces, stripping the Royal Oak dial of its tapisserie pattern, its applied hour markers, and its AP logo, leaving a plain brushed steel surface with only the ALYX name printed at six o'clock. Everything that normally identifies a Royal Oak from across a room is gone, which means only people who already know the reference will recognize it. Drake wears it in a white graphic tee leaning against a car, and it is the single most restrained piece in this entire article. Limited collaboration Royal Oaks in steel have consistently outperformed their gold catalogue siblings on the secondary market.

This sits at the very top of Drake's collection by market value, and the case is one of the hardest objects to manufacture in the entire watch industry. The RM 56-02 case is machined from solid blocks of sapphire crystal, a process that takes roughly a thousand hours per case because sapphire is close to diamond in hardness and shatters if the tooling is wrong. Inside, the grade 5 titanium baseplate is suspended within the case on a single braided cable measuring 0.35mm, woven through ten pulleys, with a tension indicator on the dial so the owner can check the cable is correctly loaded. The tourbillon is manual wind. Richard Mille built ten pieces. Drake acquired his around his 35th birthday, and the transparency is the entire point, since nothing is hidden and nothing can be.

The RM 57-03 is the third chapter of the Jackie Chan dragon series Richard Mille began in 2012, and Drake's is the rose gold execution with the case and bezel fully set with diamonds. The dragon does not sit on a dial above the movement, it coils around the tourbillon inside the calibre, hand-engraved and assembled from red gold components joined to milled sapphire sections by Olivier Vaucher in Geneva, the micro-decoration house that does this work for half the industry. The tongue and eyes are painted red by hand with a single fine brush, and the tourbillon endstone is a round ruby set in a rose gold chaton. The manual wind calibre comes from Renaud et Papi, the complications workshop owned by Audemars Piguet, with the baseplate openworked in a spiral so the sculpture reads from both sides. The diamond-set rose gold version runs to 36 pieces and was allocated almost entirely through Asian boutiques.

Richard Mille built the RM 38-02 in 2022 to mark ten years working with golfer Bubba Watson, and it is pink because Watson asked for pink. The case combines white and pink Quartz TPT with Carbon TPT through the caseband, shaped asymmetrically so the crown clears the wrist through a full swing, and the whole assembly is engineered to survive shocks above 10,000 g, since a driver strike puts roughly 50,000 g into the ball. Inside is a manual wind tourbillon with a 70-hour power reserve, a skeletonized Carbon TPT baseplate, and grade 5 titanium bridges hand-painted pink, with two pink tubes running straight through the movement on either side. Retail sat around CHF 900,000 across a run of 50 pieces. Drake owning a pink golf tourbillon is the collection in a single object, because he does not play golf and that was never the point.

Released in 2020 for the tenth anniversary of the Richard Mille partnership with Rafael Nadal, the RM 27-04 suspends its tourbillon calibre inside a woven mesh of a single braided steel cable measuring 0.27mm, hand-strung by a watchmaker like the strings of a tennis racket and tensioned from a screw at five o'clock. The case is TitaCarb, a carbon-reinforced polyamide with the strength of steel at a fraction of the weight, and the finished watch weighs 30 grams including the strap while surviving accelerations above 12,000 g, a record for the brand. Only 50 were made at a retail price of $1.05 million, and Drake picked one up in 2021, weeks after Nadal wore the reference at Roland Garros. He wears his with a Lakers jersey, which tells you how seriously he takes the tennis connection. Secondary market values have run to roughly double retail since.

The RM 19-02 is the only automaton Richard Mille has ever built and the strangest watch Drake owns. A magnolia sits at seven o'clock, five hand-painted 18k white gold petals that open every five minutes to reveal the flying tourbillon underneath, hold the position, then close and reset the cycle. As the petals open, a long pinion lifts the tourbillon and its gem-set stamen upward by a full millimetre, copying the way the real flower arches to improve its chances of pollination. The mechanism runs on its own second mainspring barrel and a separate gear train driven by five levers under the petals, and a pusher at nine o'clock triggers the bloom on demand. The tonneau case is white gold set with diamonds, the edition ran to 30 pieces at roughly $1.09 million retail in 2015, and because the petals are painted by hand no two examples are identical.

The Richard Mille RM 69 "Erotic Tourbillon" is one of the most unusual pieces in Drake's rotation. The titanium tonneau case houses three rolling cylinder displays that spell out provocative phrases, paired with a flying tourbillon at six o'clock visible through a generous skeleton aperture. Drake debuted the watch courtside at a Toronto Raptors playoff game, where the rolling text drew immediate attention from broadcast cameras. Limited to a total run in the dozens, the RM 69 is one of the rarest and most provocative references Richard Mille has ever released.

The RM 26-02 puts an evil eye at the centre of a tourbillon calibre and surrounds it with flames, all of it sculpted from 3N red gold and finished in grand feu enamel and micro-lacquer, a technique almost nobody applies at this scale because the firing temperature will destroy the piece if the timing is off by seconds. The case measures 48.15mm by 40.10mm in black TZP ceramic with a 5N red gold caseband and a torque-limiting crown that stops the tourbillon being overwound. The manual wind movement holds roughly 50 hours, indicated by a red line on a differential-driven disc between ten and eleven o'clock, with a PVD-coated grade 5 titanium baseplate skeletonized enough to show the reverse of the eye through the caseback. Richard Mille made 25 and sold them exclusively through its own 25 boutiques worldwide. Drake's sits on black rubber, which keeps every bit of attention on the dial.

The RM 07-01 is the automatic tonneau in the smaller case size, and Drake's example is set with diamonds across the case, bezel, dial, and a sculpted link bracelet that reads closer to a jewelry cuff than a watch strap. The skeletonized automatic calibre CRMA2 sits underneath with a variable geometry rotor, so the winding rate adjusts to how active the wearer is. He wore it while holding the Larry O'Brien trophy at the 2019 Toronto Raptors championship celebration, which is the single most photographed moment of his watch-wearing career. Fully set RM 07 references are commissioned rather than stocked, and the bracelet work on this one is heavier than the standard diamond options in the catalogue.

The Astronomia Casino reference AT160.40.AB.AB.B is a triple-axis tourbillon with a fully functional miniature roulette wheel built into the dial. Drake's example is the rose gold version, with a red, black, and green roulette wheel that spins on demand at the press of a pusher. The watch was photographed at his casino-themed event, paired with a fur-collared coat. Jacob & Co produces fewer than ten Astronomia Casino pieces in any given configuration, and the rose gold version is one of the most graphically aggressive watches in Drake's entire rotation.

The Jacob & Co Five Time Zone is the watch that put Jacob the Jeweler on the map in hip-hop. The 47mm case displays five separate dials, each tracking a different time zone, set against a pavé diamond background and framed by a diamond bezel. Drake has been photographed in multiple strap configurations, including a vivid yellow crocodile in the "Third Ward" jersey shot and a soft blue alligator variant. The Five Time Zone is the reference that defined Jacob & Co's signature look in the early 2000s, worn by virtually every major figure in hip-hop, and it remains a touchstone piece for collectors revisiting that era.