Pêpê Rapazote — watch collection

About Pêpê Rapazote’s watch collection

Pêpê Rapazote is a Portuguese actor with a career spanning theatre, film, and television across Portugal and international productions. Born in Lisbon, he built his reputation through decades of work in Portuguese cinema and stage before breaking into wider global visibility through high-profile international co-productions. He is perhaps best known outside Portugal for his role in Netflix's Narcos, where he portrayed Chepe Santacruz, a senior Cali Cartel enforcer and financial strategist. The role placed him alongside a large ensemble cast in one of the streaming era's most-watched crime dramas, and it is precisely this appearance that brought his wrist — and what was on it — to the attention of watch spotters.

The Pêpê Rapazote watch collection, as tracked in our database, currently stands at one confirmed sighting, and it comes with an interesting asterisk. During filming of Narcos, Rapazote was photographed wearing what appears to be a replica of the Tag Heuer Monaco LS CAL2110.FC6257 — a modern reissue drawing directly from the legendary Monaco lineage that Steve McQueen wore in the 1971 film Le Mans. The production's prop or costume department appears to have sourced a badly executed fake rather than the genuine article, which retails as a steel-cased, left-crown square-case chronograph and is one of the more recognisable references in the modern Tag Heuer catalogue. Whether Rapazote himself has any personal connection to the Tag Heuer brand off-set remains unconfirmed.

What this single sighting does tell us is that Rapazote moves in productions with enough budget to at least gesture toward period-appropriate or character-appropriate accessories, even if the execution here fell short. The Monaco reference itself is a logical costume choice for a cartel figure operating in the mid-1980s power structure — the genuine Monaco carried real cultural weight in that era. We will be watching his future red carpet and public appearances closely to see whether any personal watch preferences emerge.