Yohan Blake — watch collection

About Yohan Blake’s watch collection

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.