Bear in mind again in late 2021 when infamous good guy-slash-badass Keanu Reeves gifted his John Wick: Chapter 4 stuntmen brand-new Rolex Submariners? It was merely the most recent in a string of occasions proving that the Canadian-born actor is the main contender to be probably the most real, down-to-Earth superstar in existence. It was a beneficiant present, one with a prohibitive pricetag and much more prohibitive ready checklist. Sticker worth of a Submariner ref. 126610LN? $10,400. Risk of shopping for one at retail until your title is “Keanu Reeves”? LOL!
Sadly, Reeves’s home was burglarized in late 2023, the most recent in a string of robberies involving the actor’s residences relationship again to 2014. Simply this week, nevertheless, native authorities in Santiago, Chile conducting an arrest found a cache of stolen items that included one of many John Wick Submariners, and are working to return it to Reeves, in line with CNN. (It’s higher this manner: nothing good occurs when John Wick is robbed…) The Submariner is one in all three watches linked to the theft at Reeves’s house.
The Submariner is a chrome steel reference 126610LN and one in all 5 that Reeves bought and gave to his John Wick 4 stuntman and, apparently, himself. Inscribed on every caseback are the phrases “THE JOHN WICK FIVE,” the title of the stuntman, and “THANK YOU, KEANU, JW4, 2021.” Reeve’s stolen watch is inscribed “THE JOHN WICK FIVE” and “KEANU, THANK YOU, JW4, 2021.”
It’s powerful to consider a greater watch to present to a stuntman. The Submariner, launched within the early Nineteen Fifties, is probably probably the most well-known timepiece on this planet, and in addition one of the crucial strong: Designed to accompany SCUBA divers beneath the waves, it options chrome steel (or gold) building, an automated motion, a luminous dial, and a hardy but elegant Oyster bracelet. In steady manufacturing for over seven many years, the Sub has seen service on the wrists of troopers, frogmen, pilots, explorers, scientists, and nearly anybody else who can afford one. As soon as a pricey-yet-attainable software, the Submariner—although extra bodily succesful than ever—is now a luxurious merchandise.
The John Wick Sub isn’t the one cool watch Reeves has been noticed in: He wore a ref. 16610 Rolex Sub in The Lake Home (2006) and the red-and-black “Coke” GMT-Grasp II in Avenue Kings (2008). Past Rolex, he’s been noticed in a number of Carl F. Bucherer software watches—together with a restricted version that seems to have been gifted to solid and crew for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum—and even a dressy Oris in 2005’s Constantine. And we will’t overlook his utilitarian G-SHOCK from 1994’s Pace. But it surely’s the Submariner that greatest embodies the Keanu spirit: powerful but humble, good-looking and dignified. We’re solely too glad that this wonderful watch will quickly be discovering its manner again to his wrist.
