Oracle Time 2022 - Conor McGregor Spotted Wearing a Backes & Strauss Berkeley
In 2021 Conor McGregor was the highest paid athlete globally, according to Forbes. It’s a claim McGregor supports, as he later took to Instagram to reveal that he earned $8.6 million per minute during his matches. All of which is to say, he’s never been too shy to flash his cash. Case in point, the latest wristwatch he’s been spotted wearing, the Backes & Strauss Berkeley.
With over 300 diamonds set across the 37mm rose gold case and dial of the watch, it’s pure haute joaillerie at its finest. Very much as you’d expect from Backes & Strauss given their long history as diamond specialists, dating back to 1789 when the company was first founded explicitly as a goldsmiths. The octagonal shape of the case gives it a strong and distinctive silhouette that’s as distinctive as McGregor himself and the stretched Roman numerals and hour markers give it the flavour of that other celebrity favourite the Santos de Cartier Skeleton.
In all honesty, it would probably be classier if it wasn’t the version with an iced-up dial, but this is Conor McGregor so that was never going to fly. Plus, it’s a watch that actually suits having a lot of diamonds, it fits the opulent quasi-Art Deco feel of the piece. The price tag is correspondingly.
McGregor shared the images of him wearing the new watch on his Instagram (click the 5th image in the Instagram post above for a video), which show him opening the box and trying it on in the setting of The Black Forge Inn, a pub he bought in 2020. After spending a few million to renovate the place it re-opened in the summer of last year, but what’s a few million when you’re earning eight per minute…
