Conor McGregor’s million dollar watch: in Abu Dhabi for UFC 257, the MMA millionaire flashed two Jacob & Co. watches and a blinging Bentley
After finishing at a training camp in Dubai, McGregor hired a private yacht to take him to the UAE’s neighbouring emirate, before arriving at the W Abu Dhabi hotel in a Rolls-Royce surrounded by a beefed-up security team.
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The yacht
“This is the best Conor I’ve seen ever, and I’ve been with him almost a decade now,” McGregor’s manager, Audie Attar, told UAE broadsheet The National.
McGregor, who has spoken before about visualising his fights and his victories, posted pictures of himself on the yacht he hired while en route from Dubai to Abu Dhabi.
The US$1 million watch
McGregor got dragged by netizens after posting images of himself with his ostentatious new wrist candy. He wore a Jacob & Co. Astronomia Tourbillion Baguette in rose gold, bedazzled with 342 invisibly set baguette cut diamonds on the backdrop, 80 invisibly set baguette cut diamonds on the lugs, and 133 triangle cut white diamonds on the base dial. Now that’s a lot of diamonds.
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The US$2 million watch
But why stop at just one dizzyingly expensive watch? McGregor also showed off The Rasputin Tourbillon Erotic Minute Repeater, also by Jacob & Co., described as a watch with “many secrets and concealed debauchery”.
The brand states that watches have a history of eroticism, and this particular watch reveals a raunchy scene with the push of a lever. The price tag varies, but McGregor splashed out a whopping US$2 million for his.
Yet again, however, netizens were unimpressed with McGregor’s taste in timepieces.
The car
With new watches comes a new ride, of course. The fighter drove a Rolls-Royce to pick up his new Bentley. On Instagram he simply said “new watch, new suit, new whip alert”.
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But wait, what about the fight?
With all the buzz around McGregor’s new goodies, it’s easy to forget the reason he’s in Abu Dhabi in the first place: for his epic fight against Dustin Poirier in UFC 257.
The fight has been billed as a major game-changer for McGregor, with many waiting to see if he still holds the power in the octagon after being inactive for the past few years.
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When you’re Conor McGregor, a trip to Abu Dhabi to fight Dustin Poirier at UFC 257 means chartering a private yacht, sweeping up at the W hotel in a Rolls-Royce – oh, and getting blinged out in diamond-encrusted Jacob & Co. watches worth US$3 million, of course