What Watches Do Top Football Players Wear?
Top footballers wear three kinds of watches. Rolex for everyday flexing, Patek Philippe for taste, and Richard Mille for the locker-room arms race.
The megastars go further: Cristiano Ronaldo leans on 6-and-7-figure Jacob & Co. pieces, Kylian Mbappé is a Hublot man, Mohamed Salah stacks Richard Mille, and David Beckham wears Tudor.
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Cristiano Ronaldo: The $16.8 Million Wrist
According to Kevin Ghassemi, operations manager and watch enthusiast at WatchMaestro, Cristiano Ronaldo owns luxury watches worth $16.8 million. The standouts are:
- Jacob & Co. Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon Sapphire: It is a one-off piece in orange sapphire crystal and rose gold with a working W16 engine-block automaton on the dial. The price of this watch is $1.5 million.
- Jacob & Co. Twin Turbo Furious: It is a twin triple-axis tourbillon minute repeater, $1.3 million, hand-delivered to Ronaldo by founder Jacob Arabo himself.
- Jacob & Co. Caviar Tourbillon (Tsavorites): This watch is around $770,000 to $780,000 and set with tsavorites said to be 200 times rarer than emeralds. Ronaldo got it as a welcome gift when he signed for Al-Nassr.
- Jacob & Co. Grand Baguette Diamond: The price of this unique luxury timepiece is nearly $1 million. It has 761 diamonds, 5 dials, and a 47mm case.
Ronaldo also runs Rolex Daytonas, including the Rainbow; an iced GMT-Master II; a Franck Muller; a Girard-Perregaux Planetarium; and a piece-unique Hublot MP-09 tourbillon rumoured to be near 7 figures. There is even a co-branded Epic X CR7 line with Jacob & Co., priced from about $28,000 in steel up past $145,000 for diamond versions. Fan service, basically.
Lionel Messi: Quiet Money
Lionel Messi plays it the opposite way. No engine automations. His taste runs classic and rare: Patek Philippe, a Rolex Daytona, and a bespoke Audemars Piguet Royal Oak.
Since his July 2023 move to Inter Miami, his rotation has tilted hard toward Daytonas, including off-catalogue allocations that never appear in Rolex’s public lineup. That’s the flex only the very top get. So, there are the kind of luxury watches you can’t walk in and buy.
Kylian Mbappe: Hublot’s Main Man
Kylian Mbappe has worn Hublot since 2018, and in April 2026 the brand gave him his first signature watch: the Big Bang Reloaded Kylian Mbappe. Some details of this unique watch are:
- Limited to 200 pieces
- 44mm polished white ceramic and 18k King Gold.
- His mantra “Trust Yourself” engraved at 6 o’clock on the bezel
- Powered by HUB1280 Unico integrated flyback chronograph with column wheel
- 72-hour power reserve
During the Qatar 2022 World Cup, when Hublot was FIFA’s official timekeeper, he wore the FIFA-branded Big Bang e smartwatch. He has also fronted the Classic Fusion Chronograph UEFA Champions League in titanium.
Mohamed Salah: a Richard Mille Rack
Salah’s collection is the most serious among current Premier League players, and it leans deep into Richard Mille. He wore an RM 65-01 Automatic Split-Seconds Chronograph, estimated at 1 million pounds, when he signed his new Liverpool deal. That watch took around five years to develop and runs 600 components. Other watches spotted on his wrist are:
- RM 17-02 in blue ceramic.
- RM 74-02 automatic tourbillon.
- RM 67-02 Sebastien Ogier.
- AP Royal Oak and Royal Oak Concept
- Ulysse Nardin Freak
- Urwerk UR-105 CT Streamliner
- Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider
Neymar: From Fan to Ambassador
Neymar’s story is unusual. He walked into a Gaga Milano store as a customer, loved the brand, and became its ambassador from 2017 to 2020.
He spawned special-edition NJR models with 48mm skeleton dials and PVD cases. Off that deal, his personal collection stacks the usual heavyweights: Richard Mille, Jacob & Co., Rolex, and Patek Philippe.
David Beckham: Mr. Tudor
David Beckham has been a global Tudor ambassador since 2017, and he actually wears the brand. His regulars are the Black Bay Chrono in steel, the 43mm Black Bay Bronze diver, and the integrated-bracelet Tudor Royal.
For his 50th birthday in 2025, Tudor built him a unique diamond-set Black Bay Chrono with a black lacquer dial, which is a genuine rarity from a brand that almost never does one-offs. Beyond Tudor, he owns a vintage Rolex, a gold Datejust he wears on a brown leather strap, and a Patek Philippe grand complication.
Erling Haaland: Breitling Badge, Rolex Heart
Erling Haaland signed with Breitling, and they built him a Chronomat B01 42 in red gold engraved “ONE OF 250” with his number 9 and his initials on the chronograph seconds hand. But his personal taste is pure Rolex:
- Submariner Hulk reference 116610LV and Smurf reference 116619LB
- Daytona Eye of the Tiger with diamond tiger-print dial
- Daytona meteorite reference 116518
- AP Royal Oak 15407ST
- Richard Mille RM 35-03
Haaland reportedly bought Rolexes up to 15,000 euros each for his Borussia Dortmund teammates and staff as a leaving gift.
Jude Bellingham: The Next-Gen Collector
Jude Bellingham keeps it tight and tasteful. His documented watches are a Rolex Day-Date 40 in 18K white gold, reference 228239, worth $52K in retail price; a Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A ($75K); and an Apple Watch Ultra. That last one is not a joke. Plenty of top players rotate a smartwatch through training and recovery, then swap to Swiss steel for the cameras.
The Rest of the Big Spenders
- Jack Grealish: Reportedly 5 Richard Mille watches worth around $4.3 million combined, plus Rolex and AP.
- Sergio Ramos: A deep Patek Philippe run, including Nautilus, Aquanaut, Calatrava, Golden Ellipse, a Richard Mille RM 72-01 worth $486K, and a Rolex Daytona in yellow gold with a rainbow bezel.
- Ousmane Dembélé: Lifted the 2025 Ballon d’Or wearing an RM 67-02 Sebastien Ogier in the French flag’s colors.
- Trent Alexander-Arnold: a 6-figure RM 67-01.
- Declan Rice: A black-ceramic AP Royal Oak chronograph.
- Pep Guardiola: Even the manager plays. He has been spotted on the touchline in a rare Richard Mille near 1 million pounds.
Why Richard Mille Owns the Dressing Room
Ask why half these players wear the same tonneau-shaped watches, and the answer is weight. The RM 67-02 hits just 32 grams, including the strap. You forget it is there.
Richard Mille built its athlete program around exactly that: watches you can wear while you move, made from Carbon TPT, Quartz TPT, and grade-5 titanium.
The brand leaned all the way in. In Feb 2026, it launched the RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer. Two runs of 30 pieces with a mechanical goal counter and a “match phase” indicator that flips from first half to second half, plus marked space for injury and extra time.
Richard Mille developed it with AP’s Le Locle workshops over roughly 5 years. A mechanical watch that literally keeps score. That’s the pitch.
The Takeaway
The watch says who a player is. Ronaldo wants the biggest, rarest, and most expensive object in the room. Messi wants the piece no one else can buy. Salah wants the collector’s respect. Beckham built a second career on a brand deal.
And the gifting, Haaland to his teammates and Mohamed to his linemen, shows the watch is now part of the locker room bond, not just the paycheck. Just don’t expect to see any of them ticking during a match.
