Russell Crowe’s inconspicuous TikTok account. Photo / @igp366
Instead the Gladiator actor shows off his “current rotation for southern hemisphere summer”, waxing lyrical on the seven watches he is wearing at the moment.
“There’s just something about the Tiffany blue that really gets to me,” Crowe says about his Rolex Daytona. “What I love is if you wear this with a suit, whenever it sort of sneaks out from under the suit sleeve, it always draws people’s eye.”
A quick search online pulls up a Tiffany blue Rolex Daytona with a price tag starting around $160,000, it also comes with free shipping.
Fans of Crowe gushed over the videos of a 61-year-old man talking about watches.
“This was very entertaining and I didn’t mind indulging you, just to hear the RC ramble. Something I have zero interest in,” said one.
In a later video, Crowe goes into more niche brand of watches, like the Italian microbrand Giuliano Mazzuoli, which time pieces are inspired by rally cars, with the dials taking on elements of an air pressure gauge, a transmission and a crown like a gear stick.
However, Crowe says this was all a ploy to show off one watch in particular: an unreleased watch with a case made from compressed sand collected in the Empty Quarter in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
Born in Wellington in 1964, Crowe said he got into collecting football cards when he was around 11.
“Never had a flash watch as a kid. Certainly made up for it as an adult haha,” he once tweeted.