Watches
Artist Phillip Toledano To Sell Tweaked Rolex Submariners for $25,000
It’s a project with King Nerd that is unsanctioned by the watchmaker, but Toledano is channeling the spirit of the timepiece with artwork depicting a Jules Verne-era submariner.
Photographer: Phillip Toledano
It’s enough to make you wonder what he does with his personal time. Surely, based on the content of this silver-haired chameleon’s work, you would expect his hobbies to be … abnormal.
They’re rather civilized, actually, if you don’t count the oddly shaped little cars from obscure Italian automakers that Toledano tinkers with in a warehouse in New Jersey. What he really likes are watches. He’s not snobby about it, either. The British expat collects everything from pre-Daytona mechanical Rolexes to ‘80s-era Seikos.