In a sea of shabbily dressed, self-deprecating funnymen, John Mulaney stands out as a really well-dressed self-deprecating funnyman.
Sharp clothes has all the time been a function of the comic’s standup. A good-looking, late-20s Mulaney would stalk forwards and backwards throughout the stage in a well-tailored go well with and tie, making obscure references to Steely Dan’s Gaucho and hoping somebody caught on. I went to music college! I see you, John! His sartorial inclinations have solely expanded because the showbiz successes have piled on—I’m fairly positive I heard him casually point out “visiting the Tom Ford retailer” in a speech yesterday—and, a lot to our delight, the horological bug seems to have bitten, too.
Exhibit A: Mulaney wrist-posing in full-on, double-breasted Loro Piana displaying off a Grand Seiko Hello-Beat 36000 SBGH263. The watch is a part of GS’ Class Assortment and is befitting that description. This classically impressed time-and-date mannequin on leather-based is a vibe, and gels completely with the comic’s dapper persona. Like many Grand Seiko fashions, Mulaney’s presents as a superbly thought-about, distinctly Japanese tackle midcentury design. The watch’s defining options are its 39.5-mm polished metal case with the sturdy lugs, box-shaped sapphire crystal, and leather-based crocodile strap. After all, there’s additionally that lovely cream-colored dial with utilized, gold-toned Arabic indices, matching dauphine palms, and a framed date wheel at 3 o’clock.
Whereas Grand Seiko sometimes takes inspiration for its dials straight from nature—snowflakes, frozen lakes, tree bark—Mulaney’s Hello-Beat goes in a special path. The luxurious creamy white of this dial takes its seems from “Shironeri,” or “the shiny white silk of the outfit worn by the bride in a Japanese marriage ceremony,” in response to GS.
After all, this isn’t Mulaney’s first horological rodeo: Internet hosting SNL for the three,072nd time final month—wonderful, it was the sixth time—he wore a Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso, a Chopard L.U.C, a smartwatch, and a Vacheron Constantin Patrimony multi functional evening. There’s additionally Mulaney’s notorious standup bit about shopping for a Rolex solely to instantly pawn it at a store he remembers as “Promote Your Watch Proper Now NYC.” Not less than he discovered in that second by no means to “mush metals.”
