The tuxedos were sharp, and the gowns did plenty of sparkling, but some of the best jewellery at the 2026 Emmy Awards happened to tell the time. Yes, watches grabbed almost as much of the spotlight as Rolex, Omega and Audemars Piguet watches. All these watches found their way onto famous wrists, and the choices were anything but safe. There were diamonds, malachite, perpetual calendars, and even a flying tourbillon. We reveal here 5 Omega, Rolex and Audemars Piguet watches worn by Hollywood celebs from Rolex Lady-Datejust worn by Zendaya, Omega Speedmaster 38 sported by Colman Domingo, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar watch worn by Patrick Ball to Royal Oak Selfwinding 41 by Mark Ronson.
Zendaya did not exactly choose the discreet version of the Rolex Lady-Datejust. Her 28mm Rolex Lady-Datejust watch came covered in diamonds, with stones across the bezel, dial and bracelet.
Paired with her crystal-covered Prada gown, the Rolex worked less like a conventional wristwatch and more like an extension of her jewellery. If there was ever an argument for wearing a fully iced-out Datejust, this was it.
Colman Domingo has developed a habit of making the Omega Speedmaster look far dressier than its chronograph roots suggest. He wore a new 38mm version with a white mother-of-pearl dial and diamond-set bezel. The smaller proportions and added sparkle completely changed the familiar Omega Speedmaster personality.
Patrick Ball went straight for complications with an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar. The 41mm stainless-steel watch combines the Royal Oak's famous integrated bracelet and Grande Tapisserie dial with a perpetual calendar displaying the day, date, month, astronomical moon, and more. It is a lot of watch, but against a tuxedo, that complexity becomes the point.
Mark Ronson knows his way around a great watch, and his Emmy-night Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding 41 was difficult to miss. The combination of a yellow-gold case and vivid green malachite dial takes one of watchmaking's most recognisable sports-watch silhouettes somewhere considerably more glamorous. This is the Royal Oak with its party clothes on.
Oscar Isaac skipped the obvious Royal Oak and went for the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon watch instead. The comparatively restrained dial leaves plenty of room for the flying tourbillon at six o'clock to do the talking. On a red carpet crowded with diamonds and precious metals, wearing serious mechanical watchmaking can be its own kind of flex.
What made these 5 Omega, Rolex and Audemars Piguet watches interesting was not simply the logos. Each celebrity took a familiar luxury-watch idea somewhere different: Zendaya turned the Rolex Datejust into jewellery, Domingo dressed up the Omega Speedmaster, while Ball, Ronson and Isaac showed three very different sides of Audemars Piguet.