The funny thing is, McQueen never wore this Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15300OR.OO.D088CR.02 Mens Watch , and was certainly never photographed wearing it.What McQueen ACTUALLY wore was the higher grade (chronometer rated) version of your typical no-date Submariner, a watch called the Reference 5512 Submariner (the most common, non-chronometer rated Subs are ref 5513). How do we know he wore a 5512 Sub? Well, there are about 23,000 pictures of him wearing it. And he even wore it in his final film, the Hunter. McQueen's Final Scene In His Final Film, Wearing The Reference 5512 SubmarinerWe also know that McQueen wore a 5512 Submariner because just last year Antiquorum sold his actual Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15300OR.OO.D088CR.02 Mens Watch for an astounding $234,000.
So you say you wanna be like Steve McQueen, eh? Judging from the number of posts talking about this man on our blogging brethrens websites, we have to say he's as much of a men's style icon as he is anything else at this point, and the Wall Street Journal tends to agree. Sure, McQueen had those Persol Sunglasses, and that Heuer Monaco, but in reality he only wore that while filming. Then there is McQueen's connection to Rolex, superseded only by his good buddy Paul Newman's connection with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15300OR.OO.D088CR.02 Mens Watch .For years and years collectors called the original Rolex Explorer II (ref 1655) the "Steve McQueen Explorer", after someone had been told that this was the timepiece Steve wore on a day to day basis. The supposed McQueen connection coupled with that bright orange 24-hour hand caused this model to absolutely sky-rocket in price.
