Ludacris wears a Ritmo Mundo Persepolis Triple Time

In the server-room scenes of Furious 7 (2015), Tej Parker stands at a ruggedized laptop in a blue suit, Nathalie Emmanuel's Ramsey at his shoulder and equipment racks filling the wall behind them. Ludacris plays the team's tech man, and this film hands him a partner: Ramsey is the kidnapped hacker the crew rescues while chasing a surveillance program called God's Eye and trying to stay ahead of Deckard Shaw. On Tej's left wrist, right at the edge of the laptop in the production still, sits a dark-cased watch on a dark bracelet.

The watch reads as a Ritmo Mundo Persepolis Triple Time, the brand's signature design: a patented inner case that rotates a full turn inside its outer frame, carrying three time zones across two faces. The identification rests on an expert eye rather than the press; the publications that documented Tej's wrist in the films around this one recorded nothing for Furious 7, and the outfit-spotting aggregators catalogued his clothes and skipped the watch. The still supports the reading without sealing it. The dark slab on his wrist holds its dial tilted out of view, which is an angle a fixed case rarely takes and a pivoting one takes naturally, and at this resolution that is as far as the frame goes.

Off screen, Ludacris's watch story is far better documented. Movado made him a global ambassador in 2024, in a campaign titled When I Move You Move, and issued a limited Ludacris x Movado edition: two takes on its seventies BOLD Quest design, named MVP and Welcome to Atlanta, 250 pieces each, with the soundwave of his song Stand Up printed on the dial and his signature etched into the caseback, timed to the 25th anniversary of his debut album. None of it connects to the unnamed watch Tej wears in the film.