Created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann, Miami Vice was far more than a police procedural. It redefined television aesthetics in the 1980s — pastel suits, Art Deco South Beach architecture, a Ferrari Testarossa, and Jan Hammer’s synthesizer score all coalesced into something that felt genuinely new.
At first, Crockett wore a fake yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date on his wrist. When the show’s enormous international fame became clear, the prop was dropped and replaced with a genuine Ebel Sport Classic Chronograph, supplied directly by the brand. The ref. 8134901 is the full 18k yellow gold version; the more common ref. 1134901 is the steel and gold two-tone variant — both were worn across the series. The case measures 38mm and sits on Ebel’s distinctive wave bracelet, also in 18k yellow gold.
Inside beats the Zenith El Primero movement, rebranded on the oscillating weight as an Ebel calibre 134. Five screws hold the bezel in place — a defining visual detail of the entire Sport Classic range.
The placement was no accident. Supplying Ebel watches to the Miami Vice team was a masterstroke by Pierre-Alain Blum, who was heading Ebel at the time. The same man had already secured endorsements from Formula 1 champions Alain Prost and Niki Lauda, and later put Ebels on the wrists of Harrison Ford and Madonna. Miami Vice, however, remains his greatest coup — no other watch captured the insouciance and maximalism of the 1980s quite like this one.
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€12 000
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1984
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