Messi debuts a watch worth half a million euros in collaboration with rapper Travis Scott

Leo Messi’s personal style is deceptive. It may seem that he only embraces luxury when it comes to houses—he owns a luxury mansion in Miami, where he also owns or owned a penthouse in the Porsche-built building in the Florida city where he plays and lives on eight. times Ballon d’Or winner. He is not very given to showing off luxury cars, as other footballers with incredible collections do. Without going any further, his football “archenemy”, Cristiano Ronaldo.

He is also not very known for his wardrobe, although he has worn some historic tuxedos such as those designed by Dolce&Gabanna when he has collected one of his many individual awards, and there is no shortage of luxury brands common to footballers who prefer a urban and relaxed stylevery casual, as is the case with Messi —Balenciaga, Dior…—.

However, there is one detail in which Leo Messi publicly exposes his taste for luxury: watches. Their collection of exclusive designs is overwhelming. You just have to take a look at the personal photos she posts on her social networks and the looks she has worn at award ceremonies to prove it. It comes out to a luxury watch per image practically.

In its collection, without going any further, as recently demonstrated by the profile specialized in famous watches Insane Luxury, He has a collection of ten Patek Philippe watches worth around 5.5 million euros.. It includes, for example, a special edition Nautilus from ‘Tiffany & Co.’ of which only 170 pieces were produced worldwide.

Well, Leo Messi has enriched his outstanding collection of luxury watches a little more with a new rarity: the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked ‘Cactus Jack’, a special edition of the iconic Audemars Piguet watch designed in collaboration with Cactus Jackthe personal label and signature of rapper Travis Scott.

Only 200 units of a watch worth half a million euros

Cactus Jack is the label with which Travis Scott produces his albums, a professional aspect that brought him fame, although the American rapper is also a style icon.

Proof of this is that Cactus Jack has immersed himself in the fashion and luxury industry. For example, he has designed a pair of Nike sneakers that the Oregon brand has advertised in style, with an advertising campaign by Vinicius included. And, furthermore, just before launching the aforementioned sports shoes, he also put on the market the luxury watch that he designed for Audemars Piguet, a very particular version of the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar.

The watch, which Messi wears in an image shared on social networks in which he appears with his partner, Antonella Rocuzzo, is an exclusive jewel of which there are only 200 units. For this reason, in the market it is sold for a price that is around, and generally exceeds, 500,000 euros.

With a box made of brown ceramica material that Audemars Piguet had not used before in its luxury watches, enhanced with a green or blue luminescent coating, and anti-reflective sapphire crystal, the watch especially draws attention to the details of its dial.

With the sapphire as the protagonist in this main part of the watch, it has the external areas of the counters smoked, the indices applied in brown with a very particular silkscreen, made of Cactus Jack ox, and Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating, in addition to the interior bezel brown, as the house explains.

The strap of the watch that Leo Messi has released, which has the capacity to be submerged 20 meters and resists water, is designed in brown calfskin and has a special rose gold folding clasp.

A true rarity, both within the range of the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar model, and with regard to luxury watches in general, this Audemars Piguet and Cactus Jack design that is already part of the personal collection of luxury watches Leo Messi.

Other luxury watches from Leo Messi’s collection

We have already told you a few lines above that Leo Messi has a collection of luxury watches from Patek Phillippe valued at more than 5 million euros. Here we talk to you in detail about one of these watches, the 5270P model, a watch valued at 200,000 euros that the Argentine wore at a The Best awards gala.

Now, Leo Messi also has in his collection the special Cactus Jack edition of the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar by Audemars Piguet, but there is more. A lot more.

For example, Leo Messi has once worn a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona on his wrist, a classic with more than 60 years of history that the Swiss firm designed to respond to the needs of high-competition pilots. Rolex has designed and manufactured many versions of this model since 1963, when it was presented to the public.

Messi, in fact, also has a second Cosmograph Daytona (model 126500 ‘Panda’), a model made of stainless steel with a white dial that was presented last year on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the famous Rolex watch.

Another Rolex model that we have seen on Leo Messi’s wrist in the past is the Yacht-Mastera piece made of 18-karat pink gold that has, among other stones, 32 sapphires and a diamond, strategically located at 12 o’clock. Its market value is approximately 120,000 euros.

Leo Messi’s taste for luxury watches is such that, like Rafa Nadal with Richard Mille, he has his own special edition, a luxury watch called Epic X Chrono Messi Edition designed by Jacob Arabo which is valued at 137,000 euros. In this piece we tell you the details of the watch that honors the most successful footballer in history.