Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars also gave an eighth Royal Oak to his manager at the time, Aaron Elharar (as evidenced by the skeletonized “AE” of the rotor).

It’s a solid gold Royal Oak, so it’s a joy to wear and photograph, as I expected. What I didn’t expect when handling this watch—as well as one previously belonging to Mars’s bass player at Sotheby’s ...