- Delroy Lindo appeared on the Academy Awards red carpet wearing what initially looked like a vintage Omega Constellation Pie Pan, sending us searching through vintage references.
- The design borrows cues from classic Omega references, particularly the angled “frog-leg” lugs associated with vintage Constellation models.
- Robert Pattinson also appeared to debut an unreleased watch, wearing what looks to be a rose-gold Jaeger-LeCoultre perpetual calendar with an integrated bracelet.
Yesterday, I wrote a wrap-up of a few of the most interesting watches worn on the 2026 Oscars red carpet, and there was one watch that gave me more trouble than the rest.
Usually, I have a pretty good idea of what a watch might be at first glance, especially because at an event as large as the Oscars, A-listers are typically seen wearing the latest and greatest from the world’s best watchmakers (which I’m generally across).
Michael B. Jordan has offered a challenge so far this year, wearing three different vintage watches to three different red carpets (the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Oscars, but the watch that had me digging through scores of vintage Omega references was on the wrist of Delroy Lindo.
After looking at every angle available, I concluded it was most likely to be a vintage Omega Constellation ref. 168.005/6 Pie Pan on an after-market bracelet (offering readers the caveat that “it’s a very tough one to confirm exactly“), but in the last few hours, Omega themselves confirmed something else.
Something that explained both why I spent so long trying to confirm it and, reassuringly, the fact that no matter how long I looked, I never would have found it.
It’s a watch that hasn’t yet been released.
This isn’t the first time Omega has pulled this stunt on the watch-collecting community. In years past, it equipped Daniel Craig with a few different at-the-time-unreleased watches for internet sleuths to speculate over, and here, it looks like they’ve done the same.
When it’ll be released, we don’t know, nor do we know much beyond the cryptic Instagram caption describing it as “an unreleased OMEGA watch in 18K Moonshine Gold.” However, visually, we can see the case has very similar angled “frog leg” lugs to a ref. 168.005/6 Pie Pan, while the high-polish no-date dial looked closer to that of a ref. 2699.
As far as recent form, Omega debuted the Seamaster 37mm Moonshine Gold Milano Cortina 2026 at the end of last year, which clearly drew inspiration from the Seamaster XVI created for the 1956 Melbourne Games, thanks to its enamel dial and angled lugs. Whatever Lindo was wearing, it’s got a very similar case to that Olympic edition, with a dial that brings more than a touch of extra shine.
What’s even more interesting is that Lindo’s Omega wasn’t the only unreleased watch out in front of the Academy Awards’ cameras.
Peeking out from under the starched cuff of Robert Pattinson was what appears to be a very interesting-looking Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Cased in rose gold and featuring an all-new integrated bracelet, a glance might leave you thinking he was wearing an Overseas from Vacheron Constantin, but its case wears significantly smaller than the 41mm Overseas references targeted at men, and the dial tells a different story altogether.
It appears to be a perpetual calendar, with a quartet of subdials arranged at the cardinal points, including a moonphase at 6 o’clock, and twin appetures inside the 12 o’clock subdial that could indicate all four numbers of the year.
Just above the handstack looks to be the same leap-year indicator we’ve seen on previous perpetual calendar dials from Jaeger-LeCoultre, but as far as I’m aware, we’ve never seen such a balanced dial with this complication from the Le Sentier-based watchmaker.
Thankfully, with Watches & Wonders 2026 just around the corner, we won’t have to wait long to find out more.
