Inside Odell Beckham Jr.'s $10 Million Watch Collection

This is the single most valuable watch anyone has ever seen on Beckham's wrist, and one of the most technically absurd objects in modern watchmaking. The case, caseband, and caseback are each machined from solid blocks of sapphire crystal, a process that takes close to 1,000 hours per case and destroys the entire block if the tooling slips once. Inside, the tourbillon movement is not bolted down at all. It is suspended in mid-air on a braided steel cable and pulley system, the same architecture Richard Mille developed for Rafael Nadal. Only ten examples were built at an original retail just over $2 million. Beckham wore his during warmups at MetLife Stadium in September 2019, one week after the league told him to leave the watches at home, and the wrist shot set off days of online argument over whether the piece was even real. Whatever the internet decided, sapphire-cased Richard Mille tourbillons of this generation now trade north of $4 million on the rare occasions one surfaces.

This is the watch that made headlines on every sports desk in America. Beckham wore the RM 11-03 McLaren through the Browns 2019 opener against Tennessee, hauled in seven receptions with it on, and the NFL invoked its rule on hard objects the following morning. Built with McLaren Automotive and unveiled at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, the case fuses Carbon TPT with orange Quartz TPT, composites made by bonding hundreds of parallel filament layers so the finished case is both featherweight and shock resistant. The calibre RMAC3 inside layers an annual calendar, a 60-minute countdown timer, and a variable-geometry rotor onto the flyback chronograph. Limited to 500 pieces at a retail near $190,000, it has roughly doubled on the secondary market since.

The RM 011 is the reference that turned Richard Mille from a specialist curiosity into a global status object, and the Felipe Massa versions are the ones that started it. Named for the Formula One driver who helped develop it, the model pairs a flyback chronograph with an annual calendar and a 12-hour totalizer, all skeletonized across a tonneau case. Beckham's example is the white ATZ ceramic build with red accents, worn on a bright orange strap. Several outlets identified an RM 011 rather than the 11-03 as the watch he wore in that 2019 opener, which tells you how deep into the model line he was even then. He still wears this one out, sunglasses down, grill in, treating a $350,000 chronograph as an accessory rather than an event.

The RM 67-01 is Richard Mille at its most restrained in profile and least restrained in decoration. At 7.75mm thick with the skeletonized calibre CRMA6 and its integrated rotor, it is the flattest automatic the brand builds, designed to slip under a cuff instead of announcing itself. Beckham's is the fully baguette-set execution, with calibrated stones running across the bezel, the caseband, the crown, and the pushers, then offset against a soft pink woven strap. He wore it from a suite at Super Bowl LX in a camo and leather Bowl jacket, which is exactly the kind of collision his styling runs on. Diamond-set 67-01 examples sit in a completely different price bracket from the standard titanium versions.

The RM 030 solved a problem most watch buyers never think about. Automatic movements keep winding long after the mainspring is full, so Richard Mille built a rotor the wearer can physically disengage with a pusher, then re-engage when the power reserve drops. An indicator on the dial shows whether the rotor is in or out. Beckham's is the diamond-set white gold build, with pave across the bezel and caseband and a factory black rubber strap, worn out at night with a floral shirt and Cuban links. It is the piece in his Richard Mille run that reads most like jewelry and least like motorsport hardware.

The RM 005 is one of the earliest and smallest tonneau cases Richard Mille produced, a compact automatic with a big date and an oversized power reserve indicator laid across a skeletonized baseplate. It predates the brand's ceramic and TPT era entirely, which is why collectors treat it as the entry point into the back catalog rather than a modern flex. Beckham's is the rose gold version on black rubber, and he wore it lacing up a pair of Nikes in front of a wall of sneakers, which may be the most on-brand photograph in this entire collection. At roughly $125,000 it is the most affordable Richard Mille he owns, and still the most expensive watch most people will ever stand next to.

Jacob & Co put a working scale model of Bugatti's 16-cylinder engine on a wrist. Press the crown at three o'clock and the crankshaft turns, sixteen pistons pump in sequence, and two miniature turbochargers spin, all driven by a power reserve that is completely independent from the one running the time. The calibre JCAM37 also carries the first 30-degree inclined flying tourbillon Jacob & Co ever built, suspended at four points by tiny blue shock absorbers so it appears to float. Beckham's is the top of the range, the fully baguette-set white gold BU800.30.BD.BD.B, and he wore it for a seated portrait in head-to-toe brown Gucci. The case shape follows the Chiron's horseshoe grille and C-line silhouette, so even switched off it reads as a car.

The Astronomia is the watch that rebuilt Jacob & Co's reputation as a serious complication house. A four-arm carousel rotates the entire display through a full revolution every ten minutes, carrying a double-axis flying tourbillon, a time dial that stays gravity-corrected and readable throughout, a hand-lacquered rotating globe, and a Jacob-cut diamond spinning on its own axis. The Dragon adds a hand-engraved and hand-painted gold dragon coiled around the movement over a deep blue lacquered base, with each one finished by a single artisan over weeks. Beckham wore his for a studio portrait in a blue and cream track jacket, and the color match was clearly not an accident.

The most valuable Patek in the collection and one of the rarest configurations Patek Philippe's gem-setting workshop produces. The bezel is set with calibrated baguette rubies, each stone cut to follow the Nautilus porthole geometry rather than dropped into a generic channel, sitting over a brown gradient dial in solid rose gold. Gem-set Nautilus references are made in tiny numbers, allocated privately, and almost never appear at retail. Beckham wore his on the ESPYs red carpet in a black tuxedo with his son in his arms, which turned a piece of high jewelry into a family photo. On the secondary market these trade in the high six figures and climbing.

Patek Philippe retired the steel 5711 in 2022 and sent it off with 170 pieces carrying Tiffany & Co's trademarked robin's egg blue dial, double signed at six o'clock to mark 170 years of partnership between the two houses. Allocation was private, the first example to hit auction cleared several million dollars, and the reference immediately became the single most recognizable modern watch on Earth. Beckham is one of the small handful of public figures confirmed to own one. He wore his courtside in an oversized purple fleece, a combination that only works because the watch is doing all the talking.

The reference that broke the modern watch market. Gerald Genta's porthole case, the horizontally embossed blue sunburst dial, the integrated steel bracelet that costs more in labor than most complete watches, and a retail price that meant nothing because nobody could get one. Waiting lists ran close to a decade and secondary prices ran to multiples of list. Beckham has worn his since before the frenzy peaked, which puts him in the group of owners who bought the watch rather than the moment. He wore it here in a grey suit and open collar at a fashion show, the most restrained styling in the entire collection.

The Aquanaut is the Nautilus loosened up, keeping the rounded octagon and the embossed dial but trading the gold-standard bracelet for a composite strap Patek calls tropical. The 5164A adds Travel Time, a second time zone controlled by recessed pushers at eight and ten o'clock, with local and home indicators and a date that follows local time. It is one of the most genuinely useful watches Patek makes, which matters when the owner spends his life on planes. Beckham wore his on a jet, throwing up a frame with both hands, a black-dial steel Patek doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Full blue ceramic, case and bracelet, on a perpetual calendar. That combination is one of the hardest things Audemars Piguet asks of its own workshop, because ceramic cannot be machined and refinished the way steel can. Every link has to be sintered, ground, and hand-polished to hold the alternating satin and mirror finish the Royal Oak demands, and a single misjudged pass ruins the part. Inside sits the calibre 5134 perpetual calendar with moon phase, leap year, and week indicator, a movement that will not need adjusting until 2100. Beckham wore his courtside at a Suns game with green leather pants, which is a lot of watch in a lot of outfit.

Audemars Piguet's double balance wheel puts two balance wheels and two hairsprings on a single axis, so the pair cancels out the small positional errors a single regulating organ cannot avoid. The result is measurably better rate stability, and because the movement is openworked you can watch both wheels beating through the dial. Beckham's example is the full black ceramic case and bracelet with pink gold bridges glowing through the skeleton, one of the most striking finishes Audemars Piguet has released in the modern era. He wore it in head-to-toe denim with a shaved-side beard and wraparound shades, treating a $300,000 openworked movement as a travel-day watch.

The 15202 is the direct descendant of Gerald Genta's 1972 original, 39mm across and 8.1mm thick, running the ultra-thin calibre 2121 that Audemars Piguet retired in 2022. Collectors call it the Jumbo and treat it as the only Royal Oak that really counts. Beckham's is the platinum version with a smoked green dial and the Petite Tapisserie pattern, a combination produced in limited numbers and weighing noticeably more on the wrist than the steel version. There is no external marking that says platinum, which is the point. He wore it with a trucker hat and a graphic tee, the loudest possible setting for the quietest watch he owns.

SARU is Rolex shorthand for sapphire and ruby, and this is the jeweled reinterpretation of the Pepsi bezel. Instead of ceramic, the bezel carries alternating baguette blue sapphires and rubies, each stone calibrated to the exact taper of its slot so the red and blue halves meet cleanly at twelve and six. The 40mm case is solid 18k yellow gold with diamond-set lugs and crown guards over a black dial. Rolex builds these in tiny numbers through its own gem-setting workshop, never publishes figures, and has since discontinued the reference. Beckham wore his crouched on a Los Angeles street in a Chrome Hearts hoodie and ripped denim, which is roughly $100,000 of Rolex worn like a chain.