The Sopranos (1999)

The Sopranos

The Sopranos (1999 to 2007) is HBO's New Jersey mob drama. New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling. (IMDb)

Watches

Rolex Day-Date 18238

Worn by James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. Tony's 36 mm yellow gold Day-Date wears its "President" nickname well, worn throughout the series. Montres de Luxe independently identifies Tony's watch as a yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date. (Montres de Luxe) Deployant's Spot the Watch column describes Tony's yellow-gold President with a champagne dial, "on his wrist for the entire six seasons". (Deployant) Boss Hunting instead names the earlier reference 18038, on the calibre 3055 with a quickset date, as the watch Tony is "understood to have worn", again with a champagne dial and stick markers; the frames do not resolve which generation he wears. (Boss Hunting) The two readings each have further support: Teddy Baldassarre is "fairly certain he wore the Ref. 18038", while SwissWatchExpo's Watch Club says that "watch spotters usually identify it as the reference 18238", reasoning from the show's late-1990s timeline rather than from a frame. (Teddy Baldassarre; SwissWatchExpo)

© HBO

Cartier Tank Francaise

Worn by Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti. Christopher favors Cartier, including a diamond-set Tank Francaise. Boss Hunting lists the Tank Française among Christopher's three Cartiers, in its gold-bracelet version, and does not mention a diamond setting. (Boss Hunting)

© HBO

Cartier Roadster

Worn by Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti. Christopher wears the black-dial stainless-steel Cartier Roadster Chronograph ref. W62020X6 through the sixth season. Its 43 mm tonneau case, three-register dial, magnified asymmetric date, and radiator-cap crown with elongated chronograph pushers make it one of the stranger shapes in his otherwise gold-heavy Cartier rotation. The frame is from “The Ride” (season 6, episode 9), where the watch appears as Christopher and Tony steal wine from the Vipers; the bracelet, black dial, and chronograph case are visible at Christopher's left wrist. (BAMF Style; Watchfinder)

© HBO

Movado Esperanza

Worn by Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri. Paulie, the crew's most fastidious dresser, wears Movado Esperanza models throughout the series: costume documentation tracks a stainless example and a yellow-gold-finished one worn through much of Seasons 3 to 5. The frame here shows the silvered Museum-style dial and open-link Esperanza bracelet at a restaurant table. A quartz Movado amid the crew's gold Rolexes is a very Paulie calculation: gleaming, legible across the room, and a fraction of the price of the boss's President, with a dial design that has sat in MoMA's collection since 1960. (BAMF Style; Boss Hunting)

© HBO

Piaget (unidentified model)

Worn by Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri. Probable identification. In a scene with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, Paulie wears a yellow-gold bracelet watch that Boss Hunting says "could very well be a Piaget ref. 9131 C4", while cautioning that several watches of the period "bore a resemblance to the Piaget shape". It names no episode, and the reference is its own reading of the frames. (Boss Hunting)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Rolex Lady-Datejust

Worn by Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano. Carmela wears a two-tone Rolex Lady-Datejust on a Jubilee bracelet: 26 mm Rolesor under a fluted gold bezel, the dial described by spotters as silver with diamond markers and elsewhere as champagne. Coverage cites the five-digit 69173, but its successor 79173 replaced it just as the series began and no frame resolves the generation. The watch mirrors her husband's gold Day-Date at respectable suburban volume: expensive without being loud, which is precisely the register Carmela manages. (SwissWatchExpo; Time+Tide) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the watch as a 26 mm gold-and-steel Rolex Lady-Datejust on a Jubilee bracelet, corroborating the two-tone case and bracelet. (Montres de Luxe) Deployant likewise describes "a ladies two tone Datejust with jubilee bracelet and a silver dial", and Boss Hunting gives the 26 mm Lady Datejust as "possibly the ref. 69173". (Deployant; Boss Hunting)

© HBO

Cartier Pasha

Worn by Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti. In the fourth-season episode "Pie-O-My," BAMF Style identifies a further Christopher watch as a yellow gold Cartier Pasha Grid, named for the gold grid pattern covering its round white dial. (BAMF Style) GQ España describes it as "un Pasha con rejilla desmontable de oro amarillo", a yellow-gold Pasha with the removable grid. (GQ España) Deployant also records "a yellow gold Cartier Pasha Grille on his wrist during the fourth season", and Boss Hunting notes that his Pasha runs on an "H-link-style bracelet", a less common configuration than the brick-link bracelet. (Deployant; Boss Hunting)

© HBO

Cartier Tank Francaise

Worn by Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva. Time and Tide's Christina Colizza dates Adriana's own Cartier Tank Française to the show's fourth season: "a glittery, golden Cartier Tank Française on her wrist. Most definitely borrowed from her boyfriend and later fiance Chrissy," a reference to Christopher Moltisanti's own established Cartier habit. (Time and Tide)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Cartier Pasha

Worn by Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano. The same Time and Tide article that identifies Meadow's Rolex Daytona "Beach" below also credits her with an earlier, plainer piece: "a stainless steel Cartier Pasha," calling it "a great starter watch for Meadow" before her collection grew flashier. (Time and Tide)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Oris Worldtimer

Worn by Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore. Deployant identifies Vito's watch as a stainless steel Oris Worldtimer, "definitely more low key than the watches of his fellow wiseguys," and describes the second-time-zone subdial and pushers visible on screen. BAMF Style's coverage of a separate production, referencing "Johnny Cakes" (season 6, episode 8), separately captions Vito as "sporting a Nat Nast 'Rockabilly' silk shirt with his Oris watch," without naming a specific model, consistent with the brand but not itself narrowing it. (Deployant; BAMF Style) Wrist Enthusiast places the watch in season 6, episode 10, "Moe n' Joe", and calls it a stainless steel Oris XXL Worldtimer on the ETA 2836-2. (Wrist Enthusiast)

© HBO

Rolex Day-Date

Worn by Vincent Pastore as Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero. Deployant identifies Big Pussy's watch as "also yellow gold but with a red dial," a Rolex Day-Date like Tony Soprano's own but distinguished by its red dial; the source names no reference. (Deployant) Boss Hunting describes the dial as red lacquer, the collectors' "Stella" dial, with diamonds set into the hour markers, bezel, lugs and bracelet, a configuration it says Rolex never made, and concludes the watch was most likely modified by a jeweller. (Boss Hunting) Two sources read the watch as a Datejust rather than a Day-Date: SwissWatchExpo's Watch Club describes "an 18k yellow gold Rolex Datejust with a reddish dial", and Teddy Baldassarre, who had taken it for a Stella-dial Day-Date 18038, writes that "a close inspection makes it look like he might have worn some aftermarket Datejust covered in diamonds and fitted on a Jubilee bracelet". (SwissWatchExpo; Teddy Baldassarre)

© HBO

Rolex Daytona

Worn by Richard Maldone as Albert "Ally Boy" Barese. Probable identification. Deployant reads Barese's watch as "what appears to be a Rolex Daytona in stainless steel with a black dial", and calls it the one sighting in its survey of the show it "couldn't be 100% positive about"; it names no reference, season or episode. (Deployant) SwissWatchExpo's Watch Club independently records the Daytona, saying it "was easy enough to spot the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona on his wrist"; it names no reference and illustrates the claim with retail photographs of the steel 116500 and 16520. (SwissWatchExpo)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Wristwatch

Worn by Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante. BAMF Style reports that for the first three seasons, consigliere Silvio Dante wore an all-gold watch with a diamond-crusted bezel, a fittingly flashy piece for a character costume designer Juliet Polcsa modeled on Robert De Niro's wardrobe in Casino. No brand or reference is given. (BAMF Style)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Wristwatch

Worn by Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante. BAMF Style reports that starting in season four, Silvio switched to a black-and-gold watch: a black case, black dial, and black bezel with gold numeral markers and a gold crown, worn on a gold mesh bracelet; the outlet says it is "clearly seen" during the season-six episode "Mayham" and again in the penultimate episode "The Blue Comet." No brand or reference is given. (BAMF Style)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Patek Philippe 5037

Worn by Matthew Del Negro as Brian Cammarata. Deployant identifies the watch Tony Soprano gives to Carmela's cousin Brian Cammarata, a real-estate lawyer, as a gift for advice on a real-estate deal: a Patek Philippe reference 5037 Annual Calendar in 18k white gold, its diamond indices and diamond bezel visible on screen. (Deployant) The maker is named in the gift scene itself: Tony jokes that the box holds a music box, and Brian, opening it, asks whether it is a Patek, about 39 minutes into the fourth-season episode "Watching Too Much Television". (The Sopranos, season 4, episode 7, dialogue at about 38:59)

© HBO

Rolex Daytona 116519

Worn by Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano. Boss Hunting identifies Meadow Soprano's watch as a rare white-gold Rolex Daytona "Pink Beach" ref. 116519, calling it "one of the more impressive and surprising watches" worn in the series given its pink dial and matching pink leather strap. Teddy Baldassarre independently corroborates the same reference on Meadow, describing "a hilarious Rolex Daytona 'Beach' Ref. 116519" with a pink lacquer dial. (Boss Hunting; Teddy Baldassarre) Time+Tide independently names "her special edition white gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 'Beach' featuring a pink mother of pearl face and a genuine pink lizard-leather strap". (Time+Tide)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Rolex Datejust 1601

Worn by Dominic Chianese as Corrado "Junior" Soprano. Boss Hunting identifies Uncle Junior's watch as a "classic Rolex Datejust Ref. 1601." Teddy Baldassarre independently corroborates the identification, describing a two-tone 36mm Datejust and settling on the same reference 1601, a model produced from 1960 through the early 1980s. (Boss Hunting; Teddy Baldassarre) Norra captured Junior's two-tone Datejust on Klocksnack in December 2015 and noted that he wears it upside down, crown toward the elbow; Psykel added that the logo faces the wearer. The scene is Norra's capture. (Klocksnack; Klocksnack)

© HBO

Concord Centurion

Worn by Vincent Curatola as Johnny Sack. Boss Hunting identifies Johnny Sack's watch as a gold Concord Centurion, "genuinely interesting... thanks to its solid 18k gold case and integrated bracelet." Teddy Baldassarre independently corroborates the sighting, though hedged, writing "there are only a few instances where you can make it out, but Johnny Sack wears what I thought was a Piaget but looks to be a Concord Centurion." (Boss Hunting; Teddy Baldassarre)

Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!

Zenith El Primero Rainbow Flyback

Worn by Federico Castelluccio as Furio Giunta. Boss Hunting identifies Tony's Naples-born enforcer Furio Giunta's watch as a Zenith El Primero Rainbow Flyback, worn "in a scene driving with Tony." A dedicated Omega Forums thread on the sighting narrows it to season 4, episode 12, "beginning around the 5:35 mark," citing the "touches of green and yellow in the minutes subdial" as confirming the identification. (Boss Hunting; Omega Forums) Fratello's review of the Rainbow Flyback notes in passing that "This watch was also worn by Furio in the Sopranos in a couple of episodes." (Fratello) Norra captured the Zenith on Furio's wrist at the wheel on Klocksnack in December 2015, the scene used here. (Klocksnack)

© HBO

Further reading

• Christopher Moltisanti’s Cartier Habit
• The Watch Gift Is the Power Move