Frank Ocean’s Richard Mille RM 37-01 is as unconventional as he’s

A daily fixture on GQ’s Most Trendy listing, Frank Ocean can be one of the elusive and enigmatic characters within the up to date music business. Whether or not it’s releasing his first album, Nostalgia, Extremely, as a free mixtape in 2011, or, in 2016, dropping two albums, Blond and Infinite, on the similar time, Ocean challenges conventions in all the pieces he does. 

The identical goes for the best way he clothes. A few of Ocean’s most notable type moments embrace an all-black normcore outfit by Prada on the 2019 Met Ball (the gown code was “Camp”) and a sleekly tailor-made go well with with checkerboard Vans slip-ons for a go to to the White Home. After which there’s the slogan T-shirt he wore reside on stage that learn “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you possibly can simply be quiet?”, which, in fact, went immediately viral.

Ocean takes a equally artistic strategy to the watches and jewelry he wears. In hip-hop and R&B, a Richard Mille is taken into account one of many spoils of victory, with stars reminiscent of Drake, DJ Khaled and Gucci Mane sporting watches from the model that boast technical specs, materials properties, and, sure, bling pushed to the outer, stratospheric limits of what’s attainable in wonderful watchmaking. 

Fittingly, subsequently, in 2019 Ocean posted a wrist shot of the RM 37-01 Computerized Kiwi from Richard Mille’s bonkers Bonbon assortment, alongside the caption “Kandi Man”. As an alternative of the glowing diamonds of hip-hop and R&B conference, the Kiwi is adorned with fruit slices and tiny candies which look as if they’ve been flippantly frosted with a coating of sugar. This impact is achieved with powdered enamel and wonderful sand extra generally discovered inside an hourglass. The automated winding calibre is housed inside a carbon TPT case connected to a shiny inexperienced rubber strap.

Ocean – who has been doing the publicity rounds for his new jewelry assortment, “Homer”, and who not too long ago instructed the FT that he’s pleased to stroll across the desert with $3 million price of jewelry – appears like he might have taken some inspiration from the look ahead to his personal assortment. Impressed designs embrace the diamond and enamel “Spear Legs” pendant in cartoon-bright colors which channels the vibrancy of pop artwork and the power of Takashi Murakami. In 2021, plainly the “haute” in haute horology and jewelry design are more and more accompanied by “candy” designs that look adequate to eat.

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