Zedd — watch collection

About Zedd’s watch collection

Zedd, born Anton Zaslavski in 1989, is a Russian-German DJ, record producer, and songwriter who rose to global prominence in the early 2010s with a run of crossover electronic hits that blurred the line between dance music and mainstream pop. His 2013 single "Clarity," featuring Foxes, won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, cementing his status as one of the most commercially successful producers in electronic music. Beyond the festival circuit, Zedd has built a reputation as a meticulous craftsman — classically trained in piano from childhood — whose studio work is defined by precise arrangement and deliberate sonic layering.

The Zedd watch collection, as documented so far, skews toward the rare and visually complex end of the Rolex catalog. He has been photographed wearing the Rolex Yacht-Master 40 "Candy" in reference 126679SABR, a piece built entirely in 18k white gold and set with a rainbow baguette-cut sapphire bezel. It is one of the more technically demanding references Rolex produces, and one of the harder pieces to acquire through conventional retail channels. The watch is powered by the Calibre 3235 movement, which brings a 70-hour power reserve, a Chronergy escapement, and Rolex's Parachrom hairspring — a movement as considered in its engineering as the case is in its appearance.

What the collection reflects, even from a single confirmed sighting, is a collector who gravitates toward pieces where technical construction and visual design reinforce each other rather than compete. The rainbow sapphire bezel on the 126679SABR is not decorative in the conventional sense — it is the result of precise gem selection and setting work that happens to produce a striking result. For a producer whose career is built on that same relationship between structure and color, the fit is more logical than it might first appear.