Formula 1's watch game at Marina Bay in 2026 stretched from a $400 Swatch to a Richard Mille that, by rough estimate, costs about $430,000 and can't be bought at just any shop. That's a gap of roughly three orders of magnitude, and it all fit inside one paddock weekend. If you want to know which drivers, team bosses and guests wore the most exclusive timepieces at the Singapore Grand Prix, then look no further. The list below runs from the cheapest to the most absurd watches at the event.
A quick note on the numbers. Prices listed as whole numbers reflect what buyers pay at authorised retailers. Price bands indicate the asking rates from secondary market dealers for discontinued models. The two entries marked with an asterisk, Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, are sold to no one outside the people who receive them, so those are rough estimates.
Sergio Perez, now at Cadillac Formula 1 Team, wore the Swatch × Audemars Piguet Royal Pop Blaue Acht at $400, making him the only person on this list whose watch costs less than a decent set of tires. Everyone else is in four figures or higher, starting with team partners. Arvid Lindblad with Racing Bulls wears a Tudor Black Bay Chrono Carbon 26 at $8,625. Mercedes-AMG Petronas team-mates Kimi Antonelli and George Russell both wear the IWC Pilot's Chronograph Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team at $9,200. Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin F1 Team wears the Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43 at $11,500.
The climb gets steep from here. Max Verstappen's TAG Heuer Monaco Evergraph is $28,500, with TAG being Red Bull's partner since 2016. Carlos Sainz wears the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Skeleton at $43,600, a deal Williams F1 Team announced in February. Franco Colapinto's H. Moser & Cie Streamliner Alpine F1 Team Drivers Edition runs $74,400.
Max Verstappen
The paddock has never lacked the rich and famous, and their watches tend to be older, shinier and bought on the secondary market. Singer James Arthur wore a Rolex Sky-Dweller 42. DJ Snake went with a white-dial Rolex Daytona "Panda" at $33,000 to $38,000.
Romeo Beckham brought a vintage Audemars Piguet Bamboo, valued between $25,000 and $47,500. Felix from Stray Kids went bigger with an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph 50th Anniversary at $112,000 to $118,000. Actress Anne Curtis topped the group with a rose gold Patek Philippe Nautilus at $138,000 to $170,000.
Richard Mille owns the top of the top. Max Verstappen took pole over Charles Leclerc, with Lewis Hamilton third, putting a TAG Heuer next to two Ferrari drivers.
Charles Leclerc
Lewis Hamilton's RM 07-01 is about $350,000. Charles Leclerc's RM 67-02 starts at $300,000. Lando Norris, whose McLaren has been a Richard Mille partner since 2016, wears an RM 67-02 McLaren at about $430,000, the most expensive watch on this list. Team sponsorship gets drivers into watches that cost as much as a used hatchback, while personal taste pushes everyone else into six-figure Richard Mille territory.
Source: Motorsport
