Yohan Blake Watch Collection - Every Watch He's Been Spotted Wearing
Yohan Blake currently has 5 watches in his collection. Check them in our database.
Introduction to Yohan Blake
Yohan Blake is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as one of the fastest humans ever to compete on a track. Born in 1989 in St. James Parish, Jamaica, Blake announced himself to the world at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, where he claimed the 100m title at just 21 years old. He followed that with a silver medal double at the 2012 London Olympic Games, finishing behind his Jamaican training partner Usain Bolt in both the 100m and 200m finals. His personal best of 9.69 seconds in the 100m makes him the second-fastest man in recorded history. Blake has represented Jamaica at multiple Olympic Games and World Championships, cementing a career that places him among the elite of global athletics.
When it comes to watches, Blake has shown a consistent and specific allegiance to Richard Mille, the Franco-Swiss manufacture known for producing highly engineered, lightweight timepieces built to perform under extreme physical stress — a logical fit for a professional sprinter. The Yohan Blake watch collection, as documented across our sightings database, runs to five confirmed pieces, all from Richard Mille. The most significant is the RM59-01 Tourbillon, a confirmed one-of-one commission built exclusively for Blake by the Le Locle manufacture. He wore it trackside at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, a skeletonised manual-winding tourbillon designed for high-impact athletic environments. That a six-figure tourbillon appeared at the Olympics on the wrist of a competing athlete made the sighting immediately notable within the watch community.
The RM59-01 sighting alone would define most collectors' watch stories, but Blake's relationship with Richard Mille appears to go beyond a single commission. His collection reflects the kind of long-term brand partnership that Richard Mille has built with elite athletes across motorsport, tennis, and track and field. The personalised nature of the RM59-01 — a true one-of-one — places it in a category occupied by very few pieces in circulation anywhere in the world.
Yohan Blake Spotted Wearing Richard Mille RM59-01 Tourbillon 'Yohan Blake Edition' at 2016 Rio Olympics
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The Richard Mille RM59-01 is already one of the manufacture's rarest tourbillon references — but the Yohan Blake Edition is in a category entirely its own: a confirmed unique piece, commissioned for the Jamaican sprint star ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Built around a hand-wound tourbillon movement engineered to survive the biomechanical violence of elite sprinting, the RM59-01 represents Richard Mille's philosophy of treating the wrist-worn instrument as serious sporting equipment, not ornament. Blake wore it trackside in Rio as both ambassador and protagonist.
Yohan Blake Spotted Wearing Richard Mille RM 032 Titanium Ref. 532.45.91
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The Richard Mille RM 032 is one of the brand's most technically demanding pieces — a certified diver's watch rated to 300 metres that houses a full in-house automatic movement with flyback chronograph, a combination almost unheard of in a case that barely exceeds 11mm in thickness. Jamaican sprint legend Yohan Blake, the second-fastest 100m runner in history, was spotted on wrist with the titanium variant, reference 532.45.91 — a fitting choice for an athlete whose career has been defined by mechanical precision.
Yohan Blake Spotted Wearing Richard Mille RM 61-01 Tourbillon in White Ceramic with Jamaica Colorway
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The RM 61-01 is one of Richard Mille's most visually arresting athlete collaborations — a manual-winding tourbillon built in white ceramic (grade 5 titanium substructure) with a skeletonized dial framed in Jamaica's national green and yellow. Produced in an extremely limited series exclusively for Yohan Blake, the sprint world champion who ran 9.69s in 2012, this watch sits at the intersection of haute horlogerie and elite sport. The yellow rubber strap with green crown cap makes the national allegiance unmistakable.
Yohan Blake Spotted Wearing His Own Richard Mille RM61-01 Limited Edition
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The Richard Mille RM61-01 Yohan Blake is one of the most athlete-specific commissions in the brand's history — a skeletonized tourbillon built to withstand the biomechanical forces of elite sprinting, produced in only 100 numbered examples. The case combines grade 5 titanium with Carbon TPT, keeping weight to an absolute minimum while maintaining structural rigidity. Blake, the Jamaican sprinter and two-time Olympic silver medalist, was spotted wearing the watch that literally bears his name — a rare instance of a signature piece in daily, personal use by its namesake.
Yohan Blake Spotted Wearing Richard Mille RM 59-01 Tourbillon
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The RM 59-01 is one of Richard Mille's most technically ambitious pieces, housing a manual-winding tourbillon calibre built to survive the biomechanical forces of elite sprinting — the case construction draws directly from aerospace and Formula 1 materials engineering. Yohan Blake, the Jamaican sprinter and 2011 World 100m champion, has a well-documented affinity for Richard Mille, a brand that has made athlete ambassadorships central to its identity. Spotting him in the RM 59-01 with a signature yellow strap is entirely on-brand for both the man and the manufacture.
