Fans have discovered Russell Crowe's secret TikTok account with rare watches. Photo / @igp366
Fans have discovered Russell Crowe's secret TikTok account with rare watches. Photo / @igp366
Actor Russell Crowe has fans gushing over his niche TikTok account where he shows off his rare collection of watches.
“This is probably not the most complimentary angle for this time of day but who cares? We’re just here to talk about watches,” the New Zealand-born Crowe says ashe peers down at the camera lens.
Rather than his own name, the award winning actor uses the username “igp366″ in reference to his band, Indoor Garden Party. To date he has some 46,600 followers.
The page’s bio reads: “Hello I use this tik tok [sic] to talk about Indoor Garden party & watches. Hope you are happy and busy.”
“Now, I’m not going to show you my entire watch collection,” says Crowe. “That would take quite some time because I’m literally obsessed and have been for a long time.”
Russell Crowe's inconspicuous TikTok account. Photo / @igp366
Instead the Gladiator actor shows off his “current rotation for southern hemisphere summer”, waxing lyrical on the seven watches he is wearing at the moment.
“There’s just something about the Tiffany blue that really gets to me,” Crowe says about his Rolex Daytona. “What I love is if you wear this with a suit, whenever it sort of sneaks out from under the suit sleeve, it always draws people’s eye.”
A quick search online pulls up a Tiffany blue Rolex Daytona with a price tag starting around $160,000, it also comes with free shipping.
Fans of Crowe gushed over the videos of a 61-year-old man talking about watches.
“This was very entertaining and I didn’t mind indulging you, just to hear the RC ramble. Something I have zero interest in,” said one.
In a later video, Crowe goes into more niche brand of watches, like the Italian microbrand Giuliano Mazzuoli, which time pieces are inspired by rally cars, with the dials taking on elements of an air pressure gauge, a transmission and a crown like a gear stick.
However, Crowe says this was all a ploy to show off one watch in particular: an unreleased watch with a case made from compressed sand collected in the Empty Quarter in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
Born in Wellington in 1964, Crowe said he got into collecting football cards when he was around 11.
“Never had a flash watch as a kid. Certainly made up for it as an adult haha,” he once tweeted.
