The other day, GQ noted that Virgil vermeer, the men’s and beige designer at Replica Watches, was a designer of designer clothing. Kanye West’s longtime creative partner appears to be wearing a unique replica Patek Philippe Nautilus number 5726 painted black. 
Although most of the men who wore the nautilus disliked blackening their fake watches, Abalo was nothing if not a defiant provocateur. GQ did some research and found that the watch was the work of Mad Paris watchmakers, who have blackened and jeweled various Royal Oak and Rolex watches, bringing a high-end streetwear vibe to the luxury watch game
While Mad Paris’s founder, Pierre Lheureux would neither confirm nor deny that he made Abloh’s watch, via the use of emojis and facts he provided about how the timepiece was made, GQ concludes that he was responsible. To achieve its blacked-out appearance, the naughty Nautilus is coated in DLC or diamond-like carbon, a step up from a PVD coating.
Lheureux says that the process of creating the watch, which began its life as a stock Nautilus 5726/1A with annual calendar and moonphase complication, took two full months. As the model is much in demand, simply acquiring a donor watch took some time. And as a first step the complete watch had to be completely disassembled.
GQ states that each piece is cleaned, polished, brushed or sandblasted before the DLC coating is applied. To do this, they went into a special vacuum chamber; After preheating, a gas is released into the chamber, completely covering the various parts of the replica rolex watch, a process known as “ion crushing.”So the nautilus was painstakingly rebuilt.
Finally, Mad Paris puts a pair of small quotation marks around the Patek Philippe logo on the dial. This is a reference to Abloh’s iconic off-white designs, which often include ironic quotation marks, and use luxury goods and clothing as a commodity. It should be noted that doing so to your own nautilus would in fact have an adverse effect on its value. But we have to admit it’s cool