Rupert Murdoch Watch Collection - Every Watch He's Been Spotted Wearing
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Introduction to Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch is one of the most consequential media entrepreneurs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Born in Melbourne in 1931, he inherited a single Australian newspaper from his father and built it into News Corporation, one of the largest and most influential media conglomerates in history. His holdings have spanned newspapers including The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, alongside broadcast properties such as Fox News and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch's decades of deal-making, political influence, and tabloid-era dominance have made him a permanent fixture in global business history, and his family — particularly sons Lachlan and James — have remained central to both the business and the public conversation around it.
The Rupert Murdoch watch collection, as far as public sightings and documented appearances allow us to assess, trends toward the quietly unconventional rather than the boardroom-standard luxury fare one might expect from a man of his stature and generation. It is actually his son James Murdoch who has been spotted wearing a Ressence Type 3 — a black-dialed piece from the Brussels-based independent founded by Benoît Mintiens in 2010. The Type 3 is built around Ressence's ROCS module, which replaces conventional hands with a system of orbiting discs suspended beneath a convex sapphire crystal filled with oil. It is a genuinely mechanical object that looks like nothing else on the market, and wearing one signals a deliberate departure from the Patek Philippe and Rolex defaults that dominate the wrists of the media and tech establishment.
That a member of the Murdoch orbit would reach for an independent like Ressence over a recognizable prestige brand says something worth noting. Ressence produces in tiny numbers, carries no broad name recognition outside serious watch circles, and rewards the wearer who has already moved past the obvious choices. For a family defined publicly by scale and power, a small Brussels independent worn quietly at a Vanity Fair summit is a telling counterpoint.
James Murdoch Spotted Wearing Black Ressence Type 3
Inserted 05/06/2023
The Ressence Type 3 is perhaps the most technically radical dress watch produced in the last two decades — its dial is entirely submerged in oil, eliminating the air gap between crystal and registers to create an almost holographic depth effect. The Belgian micro-brand's orbiting disc system replaces hands entirely, driven by a modified ETA base movement. James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former CEO of 21st Century Fox, was spotted wearing the striking black PVD variant at a Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, signaling a taste for under-the-radar horological provocation over conventional luxury.
