Bling!
Bubba Watson often says, “I’m still Bubba from Bagdad, Florida” — of course he is. Now, he’s also Bubba from Bagdad who can sport watches worth $525,000. No big deal! On Saturday Bubba broke out his new wrist wear and showed it off to Martin Kaymer on the practice green before their match at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Made by Richard Mille, the same company that sponsors tennis star Rafael Nadal, the watch is one of a kind and a limited edition — only 38 total in the collection. Richard Mille made the watch specifically for Bubba and golf, according to USA Today‘s Steve DiMeglio.
Nadal sported his watch during the French Open, wrote Yahoo’s Chris Chase:
The RM 027 Tourbillon was made specially for Nadal and features a carbon-composite case and lithium alloys, which are just fancy ways of saying that it’s really, really light. It weighs just 20 grams (equivalent to about eight pennies) so Nadal can wear it during matches. The watch was given to him as part of a sponsorship deal, so it’s not like Nadal went out to the mall and threw down his Black Card to pick it up.
Golf’s Mr. Style Marty Hackel says Bubba’s is also really, really light.
And here’s a close-up of Bubba from Bagdad’s watch that Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard tweeted:
Pretty sweet, huh? I’m sure they’re producing a similar collection available to normal people — if you can spare a half-million.
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I know players have watch deals, but seriously – who needs to wear a watch playing golf (or tennis)? I can’t stand having one on during a round, and if I really need to know the time I can go to my bag. Seems pointless to have watches specifically made to be worn during play. You know what’s lighter than a watch that weighs the same as eight pennies? No watch.
maybe jb holmes could have used a watch…or a calendar.
A watch that expensive just screams “Hey Somebody Please Rob My Ass, My watch is worth over 50,000 dollars”
I wear a watch. It doesn’t come off when I play golf (for fear that I’d either lose it or leave it in the bag and then have to stop the car and get it out while driving home, or worse, break it when punishing the golf bag for a bad shot).
I’d like to at least be able to read the time on it for that kind of wonga? I mean, I can’t workout the hands from the cogs? How do you tell the time with it? A case of form over function…seems badly designed to me.
if he paid for this watch he needs his head examined.
This is what is wrong about professional golf.
Let the players pay the volunteers who make these tournaments work, with their “watch” money.
Absolutely ridiculous, Bubba.
$500,000 wow, I hope it can at least tell the time
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“One of a kind” and “only 38 were made”? Those are mutually exclusive statements aren’t they?
I will guarantee you nobody ever paid $525,000 for one of those. They’d have a hard time getting $525 for that POS.
Stupid waste of money. Just like the $1,000 belt buckles that Mickelson, Kim, etc. will wear.
I can understand that when you make millions you just aren’t cost-conscious any more, but I think these guys look silly, stupid and superficial when they over-pay for stuff like that – but like the previous poster said, it’s unlikely anyone has ever paid $500K for a watch like that.
If it came from a sponsor, he probably didn’t have to pay for it…
These Richard Mille watches are a breakthrough if you understand anything about high end watches (not Rolexes, _real_ high end).
Tourbillons are one of the ultimate complications of a mechanical watch but are notoriously fragile. They tend to be found in large elaborate and heavy watches. RM is effectively giving every member of a hundreds of years old industry the finger. A strong light and seemingly durable tourbillon is a complete contradiction and until RM seemingly impossible.
Not enough bling for gangsta rappers but seriously cool for true aficionados. He will sell them all at 525k and up.
Cheers,
Erik
there’s no way that he paid a penny for this watch. it’s the bubba watson model for chrissakes. the company is banking on some dumbass seeing bubba wearing it and buying it. there are plenty of filthy rich people with cash to burn.
Bubba tweeted after the weekend that he didn’t pay for it and that it was given to him. Bubba is certainly wealthy, but spending $525K would not go unnoticed on his bank statement as it would on Tiger’s.
As for it being stupid or not to spend that on a watch, it’s only stupid if you can’t afford it. If a watch costs $500,000 and you make $10M a year, then you can afford it. If a watch costs $300 and you make $10 an hour, then you can’t afford it.
The people that need their head re-examined are those that make $50,000 a year and bought a $400,000 house with $0 and a 60 year interest only mortgage (or those that leant the money to those people). Now that is profoundly stupid.
Anyway, back to the golf
I reckon they got a lot of advertising out of it but it looks nothing special. I read that Phil Mickelson wears a watch because as a kid playing with bad players it gave him a polite excuse not to look at them swinging and avoid picking up bad habits subliminally. That seems to make sense. Otherwise wearing a watch would only get you riled up if it was a slow round, like most now are.
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