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Here is a guy who has jammed with the Rolling Stones and dated Katy Perry, after all, and who also knows how to accessorize a chief-executive-worthy pink gold Audemars Piguet with a tattoo sleeve.įrom Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year. His platform as a pop star, in fact, gives him a unique opportunity: to translate the insular world of fine mechanical watch collecting to the iPhone generation. Mayer has become a go-to guy for other celebrities (Drake, Aziz Ansari) looking for advice on their watch purchases.
Moonlighting from his career onstage, he contributes to the influential watch site Hodinkee and has been on the jury of the venerable Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Mayer has established a reputation within the cultish watch community as a tastemaker, a discerning critic and a champion of horology. But, if anything, watches have only grown in importance to him.Ī prominent collector (he estimated that his collection, stored in bank vaults, is valued “in the tens of millions,” although he declined to cite a specific dollar amount), Mr. The ensuing years have thrown more than a few distractions his way: seven Grammys, the string of tabloid romances (Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Taylor Swift). “It was one of the biggest things I ever owned in my life, if you were to amortize it in terms of where you were in your life and what it meant to me.” If you have other media you would like to share, we encourage you to visit /tour to upload photos, video, and comments for any show in the Tour Archive.“I remember looking at it, and it was my friend,” he said. If you have such a recording that you would like to have listed on, send a message to Include your name, the concert date, venue/city, and an email or url that can be accessed in order to obtain a copy of the recording.
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