The Rolex GMT-Master II From Drake’s ‘Take Care’ Cover Just Hit the Market for a Cool $500K

There’s a short list of album covers burned into the collective memory of anyone who came up in the 2010s, and Drake slouched in a booth at Joso’s with a gold cup is somewhere near the top of it. Take Care turned 15 this year, still holds up, and still sounds like the blueprint for pretty much every sad-boy rap record that followed. And now the watch on Drizzy’s wrist in that photo (and in the “Marvin’s Room” video, for the real ones) is up for grabs.

Florida-based dealer Wind Vintage just listed it, and the asking price is a cool half a million dollars. Which, as we’ll get into, is either outrageous or a steal depending on how you feel about Aubrey Graham’s second studio album.

A Rolex Most Collectors Have Never Heard Of

The watch is a Rolex GMT-Master II reference 116758SANR, and for the uninitiated, it’s an 18k yellow gold travel watch that Rolex quietly introduced around 2006 and pulled from the catalog circa 2012. The SANR was never a loud release, which is funny considering it’s one of the most shamelessly blinged-out production GMTs the Crown has ever made. Wind Vintage claims it’s actually rarer than the Rainbow Daytona, which is saying something.

The 40mm case is anchored by a bezel inlaid with 36 baguette-cut diamonds and 12 black sapphires, one of which is triangle-cut to mark the 24-hour reference point. The sapphires pull double duty as hour markers and GMT indices, so as loud as this thing looks, it’s still a fully functional travel watch. Diamonds also crawl across the lugs and crown guards, because of course they do.

The Owl on the Back

Flip it over and this is where the watch goes from “very rare Rolex” to “one-of-one cultural artifact.” Engraved into the caseback is the OVO owl – the logo of Drake’s October’s Very Own label and the symbol he’s been stamping on everything from hoodies to jet interiors for over a decade.

Worth noting: the watch apparently wasn’t Drake’s personally. Per Wind Vintage, it was bought in 2011 by a colleague of his from the early days of his career, who loaned it out for the shoot and the “Marvin’s Room” video. That’s the kind of detail that would normally dent the provenance story, but given the owl engraving and the photo evidence, it’s still about as airtight as it gets.

So, About That Price

Standard 116758SANRs trade around $100,000 on the secondary market. Wind is asking five times that, and frontman Eric Wind has been refreshingly direct about why: the provenance itself is doing roughly 4x the lifting. Whether that math tracks depends entirely on what Take Care means to you. If you’re a Drake completist with Rolex money, that’s arguably fair. If you’re a purist who just wants a rare gem-set GMT, there are cheaper doors into this reference.

The sale is a full-set situation: box, papers, unpolished case, minor clasp wear. It also comes with the actual gold owl statue from the album cover, a couple of OVO varsity jackets, and Club Paradise tour merch, which is the kind of bundle that pushes this out of “watch purchase” territory and into “hip-hop memorabilia acquisition.”

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Pricing & Availability

The Drake Take Care Rolex GMT-Master II ref. 116758SANR is available now through Wind Vintage, priced at $500,000. Eric Wind has said he’d love to see Drake himself buy it back, which would be the cleanest possible ending to the story.

Recap

Drake’s Take Care Rolex GMT-Master II Ref. 116758SANR

The exact 18k gold, diamond-and-sapphire-set GMT-Master II Drake wore on the cover of Take Care and in the “Marvin’s Room” video, engraved with the OVO owl and now listed at Wind Vintage for $500,000 with the album cover’s gold owl statue thrown in.

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