The aesthetics and luxury of watches in Italian football From Roberto Mancini's Richard Mille to Andrea Pirlo's Rolexes

Roberto Mancini is the coach with the highest percentage of victories at the helm of the Azzurri. A result that makes him enter an Olympus of a select few. It is not just the football played that makes him an icon. His elegant and always impeccable style makes him the most fashionable among the coaches in circulation. Among the elements that make Mancio unique there are certainly his magnificent watches, one of the great passions of the CT along with yachts.

Combining Italian aesthetics with good taste for coaches has always been a great challenge and watches often come to the rescue of those who have a particular relationship with style. There are those who give up the suit for comfort, there are those who give up the tie to live the game more intensely, but few give up on watches: from Mazzarri - who became famous for his gesture by pointing to a watch - to Conte, from the legendary Trapattoni and Lippi to Fonseca.

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Serie A has many great exponents of luxury watchmaking. In the last period, Andrea Pirlo has also been added to the list, who always arrives super prepared on the bench of his Juventus and on the Continassa fields, alternating a Patek Philippe Calendar Perpetuo, a Hublot Big Bang Black Magic Cronograph and the many Rolexes (definitely his favorites). The penchant for the Geneva-based company led him to create a Rolex Submariner that takes the name of “Andrea Pirlo Project”, with a personalized dial and innovative materials.

Pirlo, however, is in excellent company: to Antonio Conte's Hugo Boss uniform the Inter coach almost always combines a steel Rolex Daytona with a white dial; does the same Pippo Inzaghi, while Fonseca shares the model but not the color, preferring Everose gold and the pink dial. Impossible not to mention two veterans such as Claudio Ranieri and Stefano Pioli: the first often takes to the field wearing a vintage Rolex Explorer II on his wrist (while in the English period they went to Daytona with Bakelite bezel and panda dial), the second with a Rolex GMT- Master "Pepsi" definitely livelier than the others. The same goes for Marco Giampaolo who, after his AC Milan adventure, wears a grenade and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore (complete with a crocodile strap).

A special mention goes to Mr. Fabio Cannavaro, a true watch lover: on the bench of the Tianhe Stadium he sits with a rare vintage Daytona with a "Paul Newman" dial, with a limited edition (only 20 pieces made) of the Purnell Escape II, with a 40.5mm Patek Philippe Nautilus 5980 / 1A-001 or with Richard Mille RM055 “Bubba Watson”. Only these 4 pieces reach the figure of € 825,000.