Netflix’s The Gentlemen has never been particularly interested in quiet displays of wealth. There are sprawling estates, immaculate tailoring, expensive cars and enough casually deployed luxury to make an ordinary person reconsider every financial decision they’ve ever made.

The watches fit right in.

Season 2 takes that part of the show much further, particularly with Eddie Horniman. Costume designer Loulou Bontemps has explained that Eddie’s watches in the first season were imagined as pieces inherited from his father. This time, he has money of his own and starts buying watches for himself. The resulting collection is intentionally inconsistent because Eddie himself is still working out what his new identity looks like.

That turns what could have been glorified wrist candy into something considerably more interesting. Eddie moves between old-school complications, modern status pieces and precious-metal versions of familiar sports watches. Some whisper. Some absolutely do not.

Here are the standouts.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar

Few watches communicate modern collecting quite like a Royal Oak, and Eddie doesn’t exactly start at the entry level.

His Season 2 rotation includes an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar, with the steel reference 26674ST widely identified as the likely model. The exact reference is best treated with some caution, but the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar itself is firmly part of Eddie’s collection.

The combination is wonderfully excessive. You get the integrated-bracelet sports-watch architecture that helped redefine luxury watch design, then add one of traditional watchmaking’s most respected complications. A perpetual calendar mechanically keeps track of differing month lengths and leap years, meaning a correctly set example can account for the oddities of the calendar without the usual end-of-month correction.

And that suits this version of Eddie. The Royal Oak still works with casual clothing, tailoring and the show’s polished gangster aesthetic, but a perpetual calendar tells anyone who knows watches that he has moved well beyond simply buying an obvious luxury piece.

He’s developing expensive taste very quickly.

Rolex Cosmograph Daytona

Of course there is a Daytona.

Eddie wears a white-dial Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, though this is one identification where we wouldn’t get too aggressive with the reference number. Published watch coverage has split between the modern 126500LN and the earlier 16520, so the exact model remains unresolved.

What matters is the part everyone agrees on: Eddie has a white-dial Daytona in the rotation.

The Daytona occupies an unusual position because you don’t need to be deeply immersed in watches to recognize what it represents anymore. It began as a motorsport chronograph and became one of Rolex’s most culturally recognizable models, backed by decades of racing history, celebrity ownership and collector demand.

Inside The Gentlemen, that recognizability is useful. Eddie may still be figuring out his collecting identity, but the Daytona is an easy decision for somebody who suddenly has the means to buy serious watches. It’s established, sporty enough for his less formal clothes and unmistakably expensive without requiring anyone in the room to inspect the movement.

Some watches announce that you’ve studied watchmaking. A Daytona announces that you know exactly where the velvet rope is.

Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional in Moonshine Gold

This may be the cleverest watch in Eddie’s Season 2 collection.

The Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional carries decades of tool-watch credibility, but the version seen on Eddie turns that familiar formula into something considerably more luxurious. The watch has been identified as the 42mm Moonshine Gold model with its deep green dial, matching ceramic bezel and hand-wound Master Chronometer Calibre 3861. It appears around Eddie’s Italian storyline.

That contrast is what makes it work. A standard Speedmaster still carries the visual DNA of a purpose-built chronograph. Render essentially the same shape in Omega’s proprietary gold alloy and suddenly it becomes a serious piece of jewelry without completely abandoning that identity.

For Eddie, that’s almost too appropriate.

He’s still presenting himself as the capable, practical aristocrat we originally met. His circumstances, however, have changed rather dramatically. The gold Speedmaster communicates both sides at once: familiar instrument, much bigger budget.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Goes Deep

Rolex gives Eddie instant recognition. Jaeger-LeCoultre gives his collection some real watch-nerd weight.

Three significant JLC models appear in his Season 2 wardrobe: the Duomètre Chronograph Moon, Master Ultra Thin Perpetual Calendar and Reverso Tribute Chronograph. Some of the Reversos also fit the more traditional, gentlemanly side of Eddie’s wardrobe, which makes them especially useful when he needs to look closer to the British aristocrat we first met and a little less like somebody enthusiastically spending the proceeds of an expanding criminal empire.

The Duomètre is particularly interesting because it represents a very different side of collecting from the Daytona. Its movement uses Jaeger-LeCoultre’s dual-wing concept, separating energy delivery for different functions in an effort to maintain precision even while operating complications. Add chronograph indications, moon-phase display and plenty of mechanical drama, and you have the sort of watch people tend to notice after they have been interested in watches for a while.

Then there is the Reverso.

Its rectangular case originally came from a genuinely practical idea: the case could flip over to protect the crystal during polo. Almost a century later, that swiveling construction has become one of the most recognizable shapes in watch design. Eddie’s Tribute Chronograph keeps the elegant proportions associated with the Reverso while hiding considerably more mechanical theater on its reverse side.

The show also gives Susie Glass a Reverso, creating one of Season 2’s more interesting watch details. The costume department intentionally connects Eddie and Susie’s styling at several points, and their watches become part of that visual relationship.

That’s much better costume storytelling than simply giving both characters something expensive.

Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Manufacture

The Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Manufacture worn by Amir deserves attention because the choice is doing a very specific job.

The 43mm watch was selected to communicate wealth and style while also separating Amir from the British characters around him. That makes Ulysse Nardin an astute choice. It doesn’t carry the same immediate mainstream recognition as Rolex, yet its identity is deeply rooted in precision marine chronometers and traditional watchmaking.

Historically, marine chronometers were precision instruments used aboard ships for navigation, and Ulysse Nardin built much of its reputation around them. The modern Marine collection carries that history into a more contemporary luxury format.

On Amir, the result feels intentional rather than generic. He belongs in the same wealthy universe as Eddie, but he hasn’t bought the same cultural shorthand.

Watch collecting gets more interesting when characters with money don’t all shop from the same shelf.

Panerai Brings the Muscle

Panerai shows up repeatedly in Season 2, including two Luminors and a Radiomir in Eddie’s wider rotation, while Bobby Glass gets a substantial Panerai of his own.

It’s difficult to think of a brand better suited to Bobby.

The Luminor design is built around a strong cushion-shaped case and Panerai’s signature crown-protecting bridge, giving it a physical presence that is recognizable from across a room. Even the more refined Luminor Due line retains enough of that shape to feel unmistakably Panerai.

On Eddie, Panerai expands an already restless collection. On Bobby, it feels more settled. Big personality, big case, very little ambiguity.

The difference is useful. Eddie’s watches communicate experimentation. Bobby’s looks like he decided who he was years ago.

What About the Bulgari Serpenti and Cartier Santos?

You may have seen the Bulgari Serpenti Tubogas and Cartier Santos included in social-media watch roundups connected with The Gentlemen. For now, both deserve a little caution.

The strongest reporting around Susie’s Season 2 watches focuses on her Jaeger-LeCoultre Reversos, while her Cartier connection is documented more clearly in Season 1. Cartier was involved with the wider production, but that alone doesn’t confirm a Season 2 Santos appearance.

The Serpenti is even less certain. There is currently no reliable confirmation tying a specific Bulgari Serpenti Tubogas to a Season 2 character or scene.

Both would make complete sense aesthetically. The Santos has more than a century of design history behind its geometric case and visible screws, while Bulgari’s Serpenti Tubogas turns the wristwatch into sculptural jewelry through its coiling bracelet and serpent motif.

But “it would fit perfectly” and “we can prove it was there” are different standards.

For now, we’re keeping those two in the spotted-but-unconfirmed column.

Why the Watches Work So Well This Season

The most interesting thing about The Gentlemen Season 2 isn’t the total value sitting on everyone’s wrists.

It’s that the watches don’t all communicate wealth in the same way.

Eddie’s Daytona has immediate cultural recognition. His Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar moves deeper into serious collecting. The Moonshine Gold Speedmaster takes an icon and turns up the luxury. Jaeger-LeCoultre pulls him toward traditional high watchmaking. Amir’s Ulysse Nardin deliberately places him outside the British characters’ tastes, while Bobby’s Panerai feels almost inseparable from his physical presence.

And the inconsistency in Eddie’s collection actually makes the whole thing more believable. He has money, access and growing enthusiasm, but he hasn’t reached the collector stage where personal taste starts narrowing the field.

He’s trying things.

Anyone who has fallen far enough into watches probably recognizes that phase. One month you’re convinced you need a chronograph. Then it’s an integrated-bracelet sports watch. Suddenly rectangular dress watches make complete sense. Two weeks later you’re reading about perpetual calendars at 1 a.m.

Eddie just happens to be doing it with a considerably larger budget.

Which watch from The Gentlemen Season 2 would you take for your own collection?