DJ Khaled Takes Audemars Piguet’s Pink Serena Williams Royal Oak to the Padel Court

At Miami's Moonlight Open, DJ Khaled raised a white-ceramic Royal Oak Chronograph with a pink mother-of-pearl dial to the cameras. Here's what's on the wrist.

DJ Khaled lifted his wrist toward the cameras on a Miami padel court, and the pink dial did the rest. The watch was the Audemars Piguet Serena Williams Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph, a white-ceramic limited edition, and it held its own under the court lights at Reserve’s Second Annual Moonlight Open.

The evening took place on Friday, November 6, 2026, at Reserve SoLé Mia in North Miami. Hosted by Reserve Cares, it mixed padel with a purpose: proceeds support cancer research and patient care at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The club’s courts hosted a pro-am and an exhibition program, and Khaled was photographed there with a Reserve racket, pink-tinted glasses and the chronograph held up for the lens. The glasses and the dial were, whether by plan or happy accident, in the same colour family.

Ceramic, all the way through

The reference is 26450CB.OO.1356CB.02, developed with Serena Williams as a dedicated Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph limited edition. Audemars Piguet makes the 38mm case, which is 11.1mm thick, entirely in white ceramic. So are the octagonal bezel, the crown, the push-pieces and the integrated bracelet. The finishing is satin brushing paired with polished chamfers, the kind of contrast that makes a Royal Oak look sharp even when it’s standing still.

A chronograph in 38mm is a compact proposition, and the white ceramic keeps the whole thing looking clean. The AP folding clasp closes the bracelet. For off-court moments, a second option ships in the box: an additional pink rubber strap with white ceramic studs, delivered alongside the ceramic bracelet. One watch, two moods, and both of them pink-adjacent.

The pink dial

The star is the dial, a pink-tinted mother-of-pearl. The chronograph counters are tone-on-tone, so they stay quiet and let the material do the talking. The hands are 18k white gold, the indexes are rhodium-toned 18k pink gold, and an instant-jump date sits between 4 and 5 o’clock.

Those choices are worth a second look. White gold hands sit against the pale ceramic case, while the pink gold indexes pick up the colour of the dial itself. Nothing shouts, yet every piece of metal on the face has been matched to something around it.

Mother-of-pearl shifts with the light, which is a useful quality on a night when the light is mostly artificial and mostly bright. In Dean Sadler’s photographs from the event, the dial reads clearly against the white ceramic around it, and it is the first thing you see in the frame, racket included.

What’s inside

The movement is Caliber 6401, Audemars Piguet’s in-house self-winding chronograph. It uses a patented vertical-clutch architecture and offers a 55-hour power reserve. Its Haute Horlogerie finishing can be seen through the sapphire caseback, which sits in a titanium frame engraved “Limited Edition.” Water resistance is 50 meters, which covers a padel court comfortably, sweat and all.

Turn the watch over and the story continues: the caseback is there so the owner can look at the movement, not only the dial. That’s a nice habit for a chronograph that is built to be worn hard and watched closely.

Materials supplied for the sighting list the edition at 500 pieces and the U.S. price at $95,900.

A watch, a court, a cause

Chronographs and sport have always made sense together, and a pro-am and exhibition night gives this one a lively stage. Khaled’s appearance put the Serena Williams edition in front of a crowd that had gathered for a charity evening, with a cancer centre as the beneficiary.

It’s an easy pairing to like. A ceramic Royal Oak in soft pink, made with Serena Williams, turned up at a Miami benefit built around a racket sport and looked entirely at home.

Via Haute Time