In Mexico City, the Dune: Part II star once again donned his go-to teeny watch.
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In case it hasn’t been clear, the gender distinctions in the watch world are quickly disappearing.
This, combined with the waning days of Big Watch—i.e. the 46mm Panerais and Breitlings of the 1990s and early 2000s—has resulted in a sea of celebs donning teensy Cartiers, dainty Piagets, and vintage Rolexes. (Panerai and Breitling, for their part, are now offering much smaller fare for ladies that works perfectly well for men, too.)
Exhibit A: Timothée Chalamet. Our favorite Atreides, a Cartier brand ambassador, has been spotted wearing all manner of attractive timepieces from the house’s ladies’ collections. Yesterday, in fact, he was seen at a photocall for Dune: Part II in a Panthère de Cartier in its Mini iteration, a watch he’s worn in public before. Measuring 25mm in steel and powered by a quartz movement, it’s one of the maison’s more affordable timepieces, but it’s also a classic model that’s largely been the purview of female clients…
…with a few key exceptions. Following the collection’s 1983 launch, Princess Diana, Madonna, Gwenyth Paltrow and others were spotted wearing the Panthère, but so were male stars such as Keith Richards, Charlie Sheen, and Pierce Brosnan. It’s taken a few decades, but it seems like we’re finally coming around to another horological-stylistic inflection point—one in which men don’t feel threatened by rocking a sub-40mm wristwatch.