Matoma — watch collection

About Matoma’s watch collection

Tom Rune Arnesen, known professionally as Matoma, is a Norwegian DJ and record producer who built his reputation on melodic tropical house and pop-leaning electronic music. He broke into international consciousness around 2015 with his rework of The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Old Thing Back' alongside Becky G, a track that racked up hundreds of millions of streams and landed him festival bookings and collaborations that would define his decade. Since then, he has released original material, toured globally, and positioned himself as one of Norway's most commercially successful dance music exports — a musician whose output sits comfortably between club culture and mainstream pop radio.

When it comes to watches, the Matoma watch collection leans toward restrained, considered choices rather than anything loud or deliberately attention-grabbing. The clearest evidence of this taste arrived in a candid photograph that captured him in a casual Nike Air tee with a Rolex Yacht-Master 40 on his wrist. The specific reference — the 116622 in Oystersteel — is a telling choice. It carries the physical vocabulary of a professional tool watch, with its bidirectional rotating bezel, substantial lugs, and Oyster bracelet, but Rolex executes it at a level of finish that removes any pretense of purely functional purpose. It is a watch that works in most settings without demanding attention in any of them.

The Rolex Yacht-Master 40 reference 116622 sits at an interesting point in the broader Rolex catalogue — technically accessible compared to the brand's precious metal variants, yet rarely the first Rolex a casual buyer gravitates toward. That Matoma wears it in a relaxed, off-duty context rather than on a red carpet says something concrete about how he relates to watches: as personal objects rather than performance accessories. With one confirmed sighting in our database, the collection is still coming into focus, but the opening entry suggests a collector who knows the catalogue and picks deliberately.