N.O.R.E. has been in Hip Hop long enough to gain expertise on almost everything, but even he knows that JAY-Z is the go-to when it comes to watches.

The rapper-turned-podcaster stopped by the Wrist Check podcast — which specifically addresses timepieces — on Friday (February 2) to reveal why he trusts Hova’s guidance on such matters.

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“I won’t buy a watch unless I speak to certain people,” he said. “JAY-Z’s top of the list. He does not answer me all the time.”

He continued: “But I think that’s respect. I think that if he doesn’t like the watch, he won’t say, ‘N.O.R.E., don’t do that.’ He’s too rich and too smart and too fly. […] When I got the Nautilus, and when I got the Aquanaut, I sent him both pictures. And his exact words were, ‘Get both them bitches!'”

Check out the clip below.

N.O.R.E. is wise to seek JAY-Z’s counsel on watches, as last summer, the Hip Hop billionaire casually sported a $7 million Patek Philippe at Michael Rubin’s star-studded Fourth of July party in the Hamptons.

According to professional pocket-watcher and watch connoisseur Chad Alexander, Hov rocked a rare bit of wrist jewelry worth north of $7 million.

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“JAY-Z wore his vintage yellow gold Patek Philippe reference 2499,” Alexander said in a TikTok video while sharing photos from the 2023 bash. “One of these in rose gold recently sold at an auction for $7.7 million.”

The auction he is referencing was reported by Hypebeast to be at Sotheby’s Hong Kong where another colorway of the rare watch sold for seven figures in April 2022.

JAY-Z Flexes $6.5M Tiffany x Patek Philippe Watch
JAY-Z Flexes $6.5M Tiffany x Patek Philippe Watch

There was plenty of lavish wristwear around Michael Rubin’s party, as Lil Baby donned the silver “Bubba Watson” Richard Mille, which goes for about $350,000, while DJ Khaled opted to go with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch that retails for around $450,000.

The stars were out for the Fanatics CEO’s all-white party which went down at a Hamptons mansion on July 3 with dignitaries coming together from across entertainment, business, and sports.

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