Silicon Valley employees are flexing their limited-edition customized Swiss watches
Tech workers are showing off rare watches customized for their companies.Employees at OpenAI, Uber, and Palantir all flexed their limited-run Tudor watches on X this week.Watches from Tudor, a Swiss brand, tend to retail for around $4,500.Some Silicon Valley workers are taking their résumés off LinkedIn and putting them on their wrists, showing off rare, customized watches from Swiss manufacturer Tudor.The latest round of wrist-flexing began when a post highlighting custom watches made for Googlers circulated on Monday. The post attracted other tech workers sharing their own customized timepieces.Boris Power, OpenAI's head of applied research, responded with a picture of the custom OpenAI version, complete with the phrase "Good Research Takes Time," engraved on the back.There’s a custom OpenAI branded one, roughly doubly rare!
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Tech workers are showing off rare watches customized for their companies.Employees at OpenAI, Uber, and Palantir all flexed their limited-run Tudor watches on X this week.Watches from Tudor, a Swiss brand, tend to retail for around $4,500.Some Silicon Valley workers are taking their résumés off LinkedIn and putting them on their wrists, showing off rare, customized watches from Swiss manufacturer Tudor.The latest round of wrist-flexing began when a post highlighting custom watches made for Googlers circulated on Monday. The post attracted other tech workers sharing their own customized timepieces.Boris Power, OpenAI's head of applied research, responded with a picture of the custom OpenAI version, complete with the phrase "Good Research Takes Time," engraved on the back.There’s a custom OpenAI branded one, roughly doubly rare! (400 watches made) https://t.co/kYCkhdsgzv pic.twitter.com/c4sMCRc4YM— Boris Power (@BorisMPower) August 18, 2026 Eliano Younes, Palantir's strategic engagement head, jumped in to note that some of the data giant's staff got customized Tudors, saying they were a limited run of 468.The watch face in the image shared by Younes features an inconspicuously small Palantir logo.227/468 pic.twitter.com/Tw1SQsThuS— Eliano A Younes (@eliano) August 17, 2026 Uber software engineer Alex Feng also posted Uber's custom model. The caseback is marked '1/100,' indicating it is the first watch in a limited run of 100.Sebastian Speier, a former Instagram employee who now works for Perplexity, also shared a picture of a customized watch.
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- Tech workers are showing off rare watches customized for their companies.Employees at OpenAI, Uber, and Palantir all flexed their limited-run Tudor watches on X this week.Watches from Tudor, a Swiss brand, tend to retail for around $4,500.Some Silicon Valley workers are taking their résumés off LinkedIn and putting them on their wrists, showing off rare, customized watches from Swiss manufacturer Tudor.The latest round of wrist-flexing began when a post highlighting custom watches made for Googlers circulated on Monday. The post attracted other tech workers sharing their own customized timepieces.Boris Power, OpenAI's head of applied research, responded with a picture of the custom OpenAI version, complete with the phrase "Good Research Takes Time," engraved on the back.There’s a custom OpenAI branded one, roughly doubly rare!
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