admin Over the past couple of years, Steve Harvey has undergone one of the most dramatic style transformations in pop culture. The beloved 66-year-old Family Feud host and comedian, once known for his enormous suits and mile-wide ties, is now a sartorial powerhouse who steps out in full Dior and Bottega Veneta looks on the regular. And now that he’s got his wardrobe on lock, Harvey has taken the next logical step: investing in a grip of fly-as-hell watches.
The first signs of Harvey’s horological fixation arose last fall, when he showed up at a basketball game in Abu Dhabi in a solid-gold Rolex Day-Date—with a diamond-studded bezel, natch. But his wrist game has only gotten stronger since then.
This week, Harvey was spotted courtside at an NBA preseason game in Abu Dhabi yet again, wearing an even more mind-blowing timepiece: a Patek Philippe ref. 5271P. The watch is a “grand complication,” which means it packs several complications together—in this case, a perpetual calendar with a chronograph. Following in the lineage of Patek’s first such serially-produced QP-chronograph, the WWII-era ref. 1518, the 5271P displays the time, day, date, month, leap year, day/night, and moon phase, and records up to 30 minutes in the totalizer at 3 o’clock.
Housed in a 41mm platinum case and powered by Patek’s handwound Caliber CH 29‑535 PS Q movement, it’s set with 80 baguette-cut diamonds in the bezel, lug, and clasp. A very serious “watch guy” watch, the 5271P certainly doesn’t need any added flair to stand out in a crowd. But what does Harvey pair it with? An Issey Miyake pleated suit…with seemingly no shirt beneath. Go off, king.
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And the Swiss-engineered madness doesn’t stop there: Just a couple days later, Harvey returned courtside for another 2023 NBA Global Games match and sat next to none other than DaBaby—and the two must have texted beforehand, because both were rocking Richard Mille. Harvey’s, a rose gold RM 65-01, is a colorful, automatic split-seconds chronograph—a complicated piece whose Calibre RMAC4 took five years of R&D to realize. A highly technical, futuristic expression of a utilitarian complication, he paired it with neon-yellow Bottega Veneta leather trousers and patent leather boots—just to make sure you fully understand Steve Harvey can pull off anything.
