Hossein Mahallati — watch collection

About Hossein Mahallati’s watch collection

Hossein Mahallati is a Dubai-based entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of HM Watches, a dealership that has established itself as one of the Gulf region's most respected sources for ultra-high-end and hard-to-find timepieces. Operating at the intersection of serious horology and the Middle East's appetite for rare luxury goods, Mahallati has built a reputation that extends well beyond retail — he is regarded within the trade as a genuine authority on reference values, provenance, and the kind of pieces that rarely surface on the open market. His position gives him access to watches that most collectors will never handle in person.

When it comes to what Mahallati puts on his own wrist, the Hossein Mahallati watch collection reflects the same uncompromising standard he applies to the inventory at HM Watches. He has been spotted wearing Richard Mille, specifically the RM52-06 Tourbillon Mask in Carbon TPT — a piece produced in a reported run of fewer than two dozen examples worldwide. Richard Mille's RM52-06 is a direct evolution of the brand's RM052 Skull Tourbillon, carrying forward that reference's structural drama while pushing further into sculptural and material territory. Carbon TPT, Richard Mille's proprietary layered carbon composite, keeps the case both exceptionally light and structurally rigid, a combination the brand has made central to its identity across its top-tier references.

Choosing to wear a watch this scarce — rather than position it as inventory — says something deliberate about Mahallati's relationship with the pieces he handles. The RM52-06 is not simply a high-value asset; it is one of the more demanding Richard Mille references to source, and wearing one signals a level of access and conviction that goes beyond collecting as a financial exercise. For anyone tracking serious watch culture in the Gulf, it is a reference worth noting.