Every time Jeff Goldblum gets dressed, he seems to ask himself: Is there anything I can’t pull off. On paper, the bespoke teal Prada coat over an olive-green waistcoat atop a pea-green poplin dress shirt the actor wore to the New York City premiere of Wicked: For Good should have been a worthy challenger. But Goldblum still wasn’t dont accessorizing. He paired his already outlandish fit with a horological pièce de résistance, a Brilliant Pocket Watch Pendant from Jacob & Co. While most of us would be eyerolled straight off a step-and-repeat, Goldblum, of course, managed to pull off the look as if it were as natural as jeans and a T-shirt.

Like Goldblum, the timepiece is unlike anything else out there. Housed in a 42.5mm 18K rose gold case set with brilliant-cut diamonds throughout the bezel and crown, the Brillian Pocket Watch features a transparent dial through which the skeletonized Jacob & Co. hand-wound Caliber JCAM01 is visible. Finished with blued steel leaf hands and prominent gold bridges—one of which clearly spells out “J & Co.”—it creates the illusion that the movement’s components are floating suspended in thin air.

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Jacob & Co. founder Jacob Arabo is known for his work with countless MCs, rappers, and musicians in the hip-hop world. He built up his eponymous business in the ‘90s and 2000s into one of the most important contemporary watchmakers and jewelers on the scene. And though his wares—many of which employ extensive gemsetting and precious metals—might be an acquired taste, the creativity of his designs is undeniable: There are Jacob & Co. watches that look like miniature flower gardens, Bugatti engines, and roulette wheels, to name just a few of the brand’s fantastical designs. In fact, the idea of a $118,000 gem-set pocket watch with a skeletonized movement is rather tame by Jacob & Co. standards!

What makes this piece even cooler is that Goldblum’s outfit takes direct inspiration from the Wizard’s costume in the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz. The character wore pinstripe trousers with a green waistcoat, a black overcoat, a tophat, and a pocketwatch. Contemporized for 2024, Goldblum wore a variation of the same getup, adding perhaps a bit more overt use of green and a bit more drip. It makes sense then that for the sequel’s premiere Goldblum’s stylist Andrew T. Vottero would’ve coordinated a custom Prada jacket based upon Frank Morgan’s original The Wizard of Oz costumes. And how best to complete this look? Why, a $118,000 pocket watch, of course.

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Dwayne Johnson’s Blancpain Golden Hour Villeret Quantième Complet

Complete calendars—watches that display the day, date, month, and moonphase—are relatively few and far between. (Annual and perpetual calendars seem to be much more common these days despite their incredible complexity and cost relative to the complete calendar, which needs manual adjustment at the end of each month.) Dwayne Johnson is clearly a fan, however: He rocked the brand-new Golden Hour Villeret Quantième Complet, a 40.4 mm red gold dress watch from the maker of the famed Fifty Fathoms.

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Oscar Issac’s Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43

This week, Oscar Isaac wore a bona fide classic: the Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43. A modern take on the famed pilot’s chronograph, it still shares hallmarks with the original design from the late 1950s. There’s the round stainless steel case—upsized here to 43 mm—and the black dial with a triple-register chronograph layout. The key to the whole design, however, is the slide rule bezel, which allowed pilots to make on-the-fly calculations (fuel consumption, speed, etc.) long before the age of the digital instrument cluster. Paired to a black leather strap, it looked plenty dressy on Isaac’s wrist despite its distinctly utilitarian origins in the cockpit.

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Luke Combs’s Omega Dress Watch

Everybody’s favorite country crooner showed up to the CMAs wearing a simple, gold-filled Omega dress watch. The watch’s simple design belies its impressive backstory. It’s a piece Combs is thought to have purchased at auction that was given to Elvis Presley by none other than Johnny Cash. That watch even features a caseback engraving that would be fascinating to any music fan: “To E From J Jan 8 1969.” (Watch writer and researcher Nick Gould has been on the case.) Though it doesn’t say “Seamaster” on the dial, it bears the hallmarks of that model family, which launched in 1948 in a similar case long before the more modern, highly water-resistant Seamaster 300 debuted in the late ‘50s. If you’re picking up a country music statue, what better juju to summon than one that once went between the hands of Cash and the King?

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Jeremy Allen White’s Louis Vuitton Monterey

JAW rocked one of the year’s hottest reissues at the 16th Annual Governors Awards last week. The new Louis Vuitton Monterey, based on the LVI and LVII that debuted in 1988, offers a pocket watch-inspired 39 mm 18K yellow gold case, a white grand feu enamel dial with cool blue and red accents, skeletonized syringe hands, and an automatic movement from La Fabrique du Temps, the high-end movement manufacture purchased by Louis Vuitton in 2011. Paired to a simple black leather strap, its idiosyncratic half-vintage, half-contemporary looks make it simultaneously dressy and flashy—a middle ground embodied by numerous masterpieces leaving the LV workshops these days.