Lewis Hamilton's Watch Collection: From IWC Ambassador to Richard Mille at Ferrari

No wrist in Formula 1 documents the sport's sponsorship economics better than Lewis Hamilton's. For 12 years at Mercedes he wore IWC Schaffhausen, the team's watch partner, and went further than any other driver by co-designing three limited editions with the manufacture. The day he pulled on Ferrari red in January 2025, the IWCs came off and Richard Mille took over, because Richard Mille is Ferrari's watch partner. Same collector, same taste for bold colour and heavy complication, entirely different maker.

That switch makes his collection unusually clean to read. The IWC pieces are personal design projects with his fingerprints on the dials. The Richard Mille pieces are statements of his new allegiance, and they carry some of the largest price tags on the current grid. Here is every verified watch across both eras, with the reference numbers, edition sizes and market context that most coverage gets wrong.

Lewis Hamilton's watches at a glance

Watch	Reference	Defining detail	Launch price or reported value
Richard Mille RM 43-01 Ferrari	RM 43-01	Split-seconds chronograph tourbillon, 150 pieces total	$1.3m titanium, $1.535m Carbon TPT
Richard Mille RM 74-02	RM 74-02	Automatic tourbillon, Ferrari welcome gift	Reported around $600,000
Richard Mille RM 67-02 Italy	RM 67-02	Extra-flat automatic, among the lightest RMs made	Six figures on the secondary market
IWC Big Pilot's Perpetual Calendar Lewis Hamilton	IW503002	100 pieces, black ceramic, Bordeaux dial	£46,300 at launch (2019)
IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph	IW394008	44 pieces in platinum, teal dial, 12 diamonds	£143,000 at launch (2023)
IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Edition Lewis Hamilton	IW379602	First collaboration, racing carbon fibre caseback	Varies on the secondary market

Prices are drawn from launch announcements and current market reporting and will vary by condition, set completeness and market timing.

Why Hamilton swapped IWC for Richard Mille

F1 drivers rarely choose their watch brand. Teams sign watch partners, and drivers wear what the contract says. IWC has partnered the Mercedes F1 team since 2013, the year Hamilton arrived, and he became the brand's defining ambassador. Richard Mille sponsors both Ferrari and McLaren, so his 2025 move to Maranello ended the IWC chapter overnight. According to reporting around his departure, IWC's chief executive Christoph Grainger-Herr gave him a Top Gun Perpetual Calendar boutique edition as a farewell gift.

Within days of his first appearance in Ferrari colours, Richard Mille pieces started appearing on his wrist. He is not the first Hamilton-calibre name on their books. The brand built its F1 reputation with Felipe Massa at Ferrari two decades ago and now counts several drivers on the grid, a story we cover in our breakdown of Cristiano Ronaldo's watch collection, another sportsman with a serious Richard Mille habit.

Richard Mille RM 43-01 Ferrari: the headline piece at Monaco 2026

The watch that dominated paddock coverage this season is the RM 43-01 Manual Winding Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph Ferrari, which Hamilton wore at the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix. Several outlets called it a 75-piece edition. That is wrong, and worth correcting. Richard Mille confirms 150 pieces in total: 75 in microblasted grade 5 titanium with a Carbon TPT caseband and 75 in full Carbon TPT. Launch pricing was $1.3 million for titanium and $1.535 million for the Carbon TPT version, with market values now reported between $2.2 million and $2.5 million.

The calibre took three years to develop with Audemars Piguet Le Locle and runs a tourbillon at 5 o'clock alongside a split-seconds chronograph, a combination of two of the hardest complications in watchmaking. The case measures 42.9mm across and 51.2mm lug to lug, yet the full Carbon TPT version weighs just 85 grams complete with strap. Ferrari's Centro Stile shaped the details, from pushers modelled on air intakes to a Prancing Horse plate echoing the rear wing of the 499P endurance car.

If a seven-figure limited edition is out of reach, this is exactly the category where our watch sourcing service earns its keep. Time 4 Diamonds sources hard-to-find Richard Mille references through our dealer network with delivery typically within 30 days.

Richard Mille RM 74-02: the Ferrari welcome gift

Hamilton's Richard Mille era started with a gift. When he arrived at Maranello in January 2025, the brand presented him with an RM 74-02 Automatic Tourbillon, reported at around $600,000. It is an unusual machine even by Richard Mille standards: an automatic tourbillon, a complication normally reserved for manual winding, with a skeletonised movement whose baseplate and bridges are machined from 18 carat 5N red gold and 3N yellow gold.

He wore it through his first Ferrari appearances, and it remains the piece most associated with the start of his new chapter. Scuderia Ferrari's own channels showed him wearing it during his first week at the team, which is about as clear a statement of partnership as a watch can make.

Richard Mille RM 67-02 Italy: the featherweight

His first Richard Mille sighting as a Ferrari driver was the RM 67-02 in its Italy colourway, a nod to his new team's home country. The RM 67-02 is the brand's extra-flat automatic sports line and among the lightest watches Richard Mille has ever produced, built around a Carbon TPT and Quartz TPT case with a skeletonised movement. It is the reference the brand's sponsored athletes actually wear during competition, which tells you everything about how it carries on the wrist.

Where the RM 43-01 is an event watch, the RM 67-02 reads as his working daily. Secondary market values for the national colourway editions sit comfortably into six figures, and clean examples move quickly when they surface.

Richard Mille's F1 story did not start with Hamilton. The line that built the brand's paddock reputation was the RM 011, developed with Felipe Massa during his Ferrari years, and it remains the most attainable route into a Richard Mille F1 chronograph. We hold a product page for one of the rarest of them.

The IWC years: three watches Hamilton designed himself

What separates Hamilton from every other watch ambassador in F1 is that he did not just wear IWC. He sat with the designers in Schaffhausen and put his name on three limited editions across a decade. IWC's link with the sport runs deep enough that the brand built a bespoke Ingenieur for Brad Pitt's character in the F1 film, which we covered in our piece on the IWC made for Brad Pitt in F1. Hamilton's editions went further because they were his own taste made physical.

IWC Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition Lewis Hamilton Ref. IW503002

Released in 2019 and limited to 100 pieces, this is the boldest Big Pilot IWC has put into production. Hamilton chose a 46.5mm case in black zirconium oxide ceramic, a Bordeaux red dial and a crown and caseback ring in 18 carat 5N gold, with his personal logo on the gold-toned rotor. Inside runs the in-house calibre 52615 with a seven-day power reserve and IWC's perpetual calendar showing date, day, month, four-digit year and a double moon phase accurate to one day in 577.5 years.

Launch price was £46,300 on a Bordeaux textile strap. He had told interviewers beforehand that his ideal IWC would be a red gold accented perpetual calendar Big Pilot, as mechanical as possible, and this watch is that answer almost word for word.

IWC Portugieser Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph Lewis Hamilton Ref. IW394008

The 2023 collaboration is the most valuable of the three and the most personal. It is limited to 44 pieces, the race number Hamilton has carried throughout his career, in a 43.5mm platinum case with a teal dial he selected himself, set with 12 diamond hour markers. The in-house calibre 89900 combines a flying minute tourbillon with stop seconds at 6 o'clock, a flyback chronograph with a single totaliser at 12 and a retrograde date at 9, running a 68-hour power reserve.

At £143,000 on launch, it sat near the top of the Portugieser line, and with only 44 examples in existence, it rarely appears on the open market. The diamond-set dial also points to the other half of Hamilton's style: he is one of the most committed jewellery wearers in sport, and pieces like this blur the line between watchmaking and high jewellery. Our bespoke diamond setting work serves exactly that taste, applied to references you can actually obtain.

IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Edition Lewis Hamilton IW379602

The one that started it all. Released in 2014, his second season with Mercedes, the Ingenieur Chronograph Edition Lewis Hamilton came in a titanium case and bracelet with a piece of carbon fibre from an original racing car set into the caseback. As a first collaboration it was restrained compared with what followed, but it established the pattern: a serious sports complication, a personal material story and his name on the dial side of the deal rather than just the advertising.

Because it predates his superstar era pricing, IW379602 is the most accessible entry into the Hamilton IWC editions on the secondary market, and demand for it has firmed noticeably since his Ferrari move renewed attention on the IWC years.

What Hamilton's collection says about F1 watch deals

Put the two eras side by side and the pattern is clear. Team sponsorship decides the brand, but Hamilton bends every deal towards personal expression: Bordeaux ceramic, teal platinum, diamond markers, his race number as an edition size. Few athletes get that far inside the design process, and it is why his editions hold collector attention long after the contracts end. The same logic drives our own workshop, where clients commission customisation work from watchmakers who previously worked at Rolex, turning production references into something with the owner's fingerprints on it.

His move also shifted the market. Attention on the discontinued IWC Hamilton editions has climbed since 2025, while every Richard Mille sighting adds heat to references that were already supply constrained. If you hold one of the IWC editions and want to test the market, our sell your watch service provides a same day valuation. And if the Richard Mille route tempts you, our luxury watch collection in London and Dubai covers the brands that dominate the F1 paddock.

Lewis Hamilton watch FAQs

What watch does Lewis Hamilton wear now?

Since joining Ferrari in 2025 Hamilton wears Richard Mille, the team's watch partner. His most photographed 2026 piece is the RM 43-01 Ferrari split-seconds chronograph tourbillon, worn at the Monaco Grand Prix, alongside the RM 74-02 and RM 67-02 Italy.

Why did Lewis Hamilton stop wearing IWC?

IWC is the Mercedes F1 team's watch partner, and Hamilton's ambassadorship ran alongside his Mercedes contract. When he moved to Ferrari, whose partner is Richard Mille, the IWC relationship ended after 12 years.

How many watches did Lewis Hamilton design with IWC?

Three. The Ingenieur Chronograph Edition IW379602 in 2014, the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition IW503002 in 2019 limited to 100 pieces and the Portugieser Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph IW394008 in 2023 limited to 44 pieces.

Does Lewis Hamilton wear Rolex?

Not publicly. His contracts with IWC and now Richard Mille have kept other brands off his wrist at events throughout his career, which makes him a rarity among elite athletes, most of whom own at least one piece from the Rolex catalogue.

How much is Lewis Hamilton's Richard Mille worth?

His RM 43-01 Ferrari launched at $1.3 million in titanium and $1.535 million in Carbon TPT, with 2026 market reporting placing values between $2.2 million and $2.5 million. His RM 74-02 was reported at around $600,000 when Richard Mille presented it to him in January 2025.