Inside Liverpool star Mo Salah’s impressive luxury watch collection: from the recent Richard Mille RM17-02 and Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oaks to the avant-garde Urwerk UR-105 CT Streamliner
Salah’s luxury watch collection is as impressive as his footballing skills, featuring rare timepieces from Richard Mille and Audemars Piguet – but he also owns an unconventional Ulysse Nardin FreakLab
Few athletes in the world right now are enjoying a hotter streak than Mohamed “Mo” Salah.
The Liverpool FC star played a huge role in his club’s recent Premier League triumph, playing some of the finest football of his career over the season.
He’s widely considered one of the team’s most valuable players, and as a result, has become a top target for cash-injected clubs worldwide. Case in point: earlier this year, he turned down the equivalent of a small nation’s GDP – a jaw-dropping £500 million (US$677 million) – to play in Saudi Arabia. Instead, he opted to extend his stay at Anfield, where he reportedly now earns close to US$542,000 a week.
With that kind of salary, it’s no surprise that a fair share of Salah’s pocket change ends up on his wrist. Over the years, the soon-to-be 33-year-old Egyptian forward has been spotted wearing everything from extravagant Richard Milles and esoteric haute horlogerie gems to grail-worthy Royal Oaks.
Here’s a look at some of the most impressive timepieces in Mo Salah’s ever-growing luxury watch collection ahead of his 33rd birthday:
Richard Mille RM17-02
When Salah confirmed in April that he’d be staying at Liverpool, fans were ecstatic – and judging by his wrist, he was just as pleased. To mark the milestone, he added another Richard Mille to his collection, an RM 17-02 Tourbillon Titanium, which he wore while signing the two-year deal that will bring his tenure at the club to a full decade.
It’s a fitting flex for a striker at the top of his game: an open-worked tourbillon accented in blue, black and gold PVD, dotted with rubies, and housed in a hard-to-ignore blue ceramic and rose gold case, complete with a matching blue rubber strap. Valued at just under a million dollars – US$950,000 to be exact – it was a statement piece to wear for a big moment.
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked
It seems that Salah has a penchant for skeletonised, high-complication timepieces; first the RM17-02, then the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked. He wore this ultra-rare piece to a headline match against Paris Saint-Germain earlier this year, making it clear that his wrist game is as sharp as his footwork.