Lil Tjay — watch collection

About Lil Tjay’s watch collection

Lil Tjay, born Tione Jayden Merritt in 2001 in the Bronx, New York, is an American rapper who broke through in 2018 with the viral track "Resume" before signing to Columbia Records. His 2019 debut album "True 2 Myself" debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, and he followed it with the platinum-certified single "Calling My Phone" featuring 6LACK in 2021. Despite a serious shooting incident in June 2022 that required emergency surgery, he returned to recording and performing, demonstrating a resilience that his fanbase — built largely through drill and melodic rap — responded to with continued commercial support.

The Lil Tjay watch collection, as documented so far, leans heavily into the upper tier of Swiss independent watchmaking. The single confirmed sighting on our radar places him wearing a Richard Mille RM 011 Felipe Massa in 18k white gold — a 40mm flyback chronograph with an annual calendar complication that the brand introduced in 2007. What separates this particular example from a standard RM 011 is the aftermarket diamond-pavé dial, a modification that the secondary market has come to call the "Chandelier." The nickname is accurate: under direct light, the stone-set surface scatters light across the skeletonized movement beneath, creating an effect that sits somewhere between horology and fine jewelry.

The choice of an aftermarket-modified Richard Mille says something specific about where Lil Tjay's taste sits. He is not simply buying off the shelf — he, or whoever sources his pieces, sought out a version of the RM 011 that goes beyond what Richard Mille produces in-house. The RM 011 itself retails well into six figures, and a "Chandelier" modification in white gold pushes the market value considerably higher. For a rapper still in his early twenties, it is a pointed and deliberate acquisition.