Succession (2018)

Succession

Succession (2018 to 2023) is HBO's media-dynasty drama, a parade of quiet-luxury wristwear. The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company. (IMDb)

Watches

Panerai Luminor (replica prop)

Worn by Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans. Tom's season-one watch. Heritage Auctions, consigning this exact prop directly from HBO, identifies it as worn in the pilot episode "Celebration," when Tom presents Logan Roy with a Patek Philippe birthday gift during the family's softball game, and describes it as a replica styled after Panerai's Luminor rather than a genuine Panerai. (Heritage Auctions) Contemporaneous watch-spotting coverage identified the same piece simply as a Panerai Luminor on a leather strap, without addressing its replica status. (Montres de Luxe) Time+Tide, covering the same Heritage lot, says the replica is "meant to resemble a Panerai Luminor Power Reserve ref. 00090". (Time+Tide) Wrist Enthusiast likewise spots a Panerai Luminor Marina on Tom in the first episode, "when he is giving Logan the Patek Philippe". (Wrist Enthusiast)

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Shinola Runwell 3HD

Worn by Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch. Heritage Auctions, consigning directly from HBO, identifies Greg Hirsch's watch as a Shinola "The Runwell" 3HD, 41mm on a British tan leather strap, worn aboard the Roy family yacht in the season two episode "This Is Not for Tears," while Logan decides who will take the blame for a cruise-line scandal. (Heritage Auctions) Time+Tide describes the same lot as "A quartz model with a PVD gold case and date window at 3 o'clock". (Time+Tide)

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Cartier Santos

Worn by Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans. By season three Tom upgrades to the chunkier Santos. Montres de Luxe confirms the piece as the new-generation steel Cartier Santos, naming no reference. (Montres de Luxe) Prop master Monica Jacobs gives the reasoning on record: "When Tom's under Shiv's thumb, he wears a Cartier, which is her brand." (Esquire UK)

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph

Worn by Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans. The steel, black-dial Royal Oak Chronograph of season four, in hindsight a clue about the show's ending. Esquire UK's prop-master interview describes "Tom's emancipation accessory (an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, spotted in season four on-set snaps)", and GQ, citing the season's watch consultant Danny Milton, names "the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph that Wambsgans began wearing this season"; Milton reads it as "so on point with his finicky wine taste, his outward love of his luxury lifestyle, and his desire to never give that up". (Esquire UK; GQ) Wrist Enthusiast gives the reference as the 41 mm 26331ST "with black dial and white subdials", worn throughout season 4, episode 1. (Wrist Enthusiast) Boss Hunting instead describes "the blue dial with silver subdials" version first released in 2017; the two accounts disagree on the dial and name no common scene. (Boss Hunting)

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Carl F. Bucherer (unidentified model)

Worn by Brian Cox as Logan Roy. Prop master Monica Jacobs, who has sourced and selected the show's watches since season one, said in a 2023 interview that alongside his usual Jaeger-LeCoultre, Logan wears a Carl F. Bucherer "for a couple episodes here and there"; she named no specific model, and no frame has been found that resolves one. (Esquire UK)

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Carl F. Bucherer (unidentified model)

Worn by Peter Friedman as Frank Vernon. The watch Logan gives Frank. Prop master Monica Jacobs told Esquire UK it was one she "got to handpick, because it wasn't really scripted", and that "That was a Carl F Bucherer." She describes the gift as "a big shift for him stylistically": in season one Frank is "wearing a rectangular face more. A very low profile watch", and the Bucherer is "much beefier", closer in weight and profile to the Jaeger-LeCoultres Logan wears. Jacobs names no model, and no frame has been found that resolves one; the season-one rectangular watch has no maker on record. (Esquire UK)

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Patek Philippe (unidentified model)

Worn by Brian Cox as Logan Roy. In the pilot, Tom Wambsgans gives Logan a Patek Philippe as a birthday present; Logan barely acknowledges it, and it is later used as a bribe for an NDA. The exact model is not shown on screen. (Wrist Enthusiast) Jacobs confirms the gift was written rather than chosen: "The Patek was in the script." Time+Tide, reporting the Heritage sale of Tom's own season-one watch, places the exchange at the family softball game. (Esquire UK; Time+Tide)

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Rolex Datejust

Worn by Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy. Roman Roy wears a Rolex Datejust on an Oyster bracelet with a smooth bezel through most of the series, a restrained choice for the character. (Wrist Enthusiast; Montres de Luxe) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Asked whether Roman "basically only wears Rolexes", Jacobs answered "Primarily", promising more variety in the fourth season. (Esquire UK) Boss Hunting gives the reference as the 116200, "naturally, with Roman numerals", the watch Roman almost always wore across the first three seasons. (Boss Hunting)

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IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XX

Worn by Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy. In Season 4 Roman is spotted in a blue-dial IWC Pilot's Watch; sources describe it as a Mark XX, others as a 36 mm Pilot, so the exact reference is unsettled. (Rotate Watches; Wrist Enthusiast) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Boss Hunting names the season-four watch a Mark XX with a blue dial, Arabic numerals and a leather strap, and quotes Jacobs calling it a way of "Roman spreading his wings in a way". (Boss Hunting) Wrist Enthusiast is the source for the 36 mm reading: "the 36mm IWC Pilot's Watch with blue sunray dial (Ref. IW324008)", in season 4, episode 4. (Wrist Enthusiast)

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Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. Kendall Roy wears the steel Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 with its blue dial, one of the most coveted sports watches of the era. (Rotate Watches; Montres de Luxe) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Time+Tide gives the fuller reference, "a Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711/1A", as the watch of Kendall's earlier seasons. (Time+Tide)

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Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle World Time

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. Kendall also wears a Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle World Time. (Rotate Watches) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Time+Tide corroborates it as "a white-gold piece that could track various time zones". (Time+Tide)

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Vacheron Constantin Harmony Monopusher

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. A Vacheron Constantin Harmony monopusher chronograph appears on Kendall's wrist, from the bicentenary Harmony collection limited to 260 pieces. (Rotate Watches; Montres de Luxe) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Esquire UK names it as "a Vacheron Constantin Harmony Mono-Pusher, limited to 260", and Time+Tide describes "a watch whose 42mm cushion squared case exuded classic luxury." (Esquire UK; Time+Tide)

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Richard Mille RM 67-01

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. In Season 4 Kendall wears a Richard Mille RM 67-01; actor Jeremy Strong reportedly requested the brand. (Rotate Watches) The request is on record from both sides. Jacobs told Esquire UK the watch "was real", "the most nerve-wracking one", that it "comes in like mid-season" rather than every episode, and that when Strong asked for it "I didn't get it" until it arrived: "It's slim. And it made sense." Strong told GQ that "Amanda Mille, who runs the Richard Mille company" gave him the watch to wear for Kendall, and GQ places it on him through the fourth season including his father's funeral. Time+Tide adds that the Richard Mille is an exception to the show's use of replicas, and its later spotting piece notes the Mille appeared "in the last episode" without naming a model. (Esquire UK; GQ; Time+Tide; Time+Tide) Boss Hunting reads the model, hedged as its writer's belief, as "a Richard Mille RM 67-01 Extraflat", and Wrist Enthusiast places it in season 4, episode 4, reporting that Strong "was actually sent the watch by the brand specially for the show". (Boss Hunting; Wrist Enthusiast)

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Breitling Super Chronomat B01 44 RB0136E31Q1S1

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. In Season 4, Episode 2 Kendall breaks from his quiet-luxury register: spotting coverage identifies the 44 mm Breitling Super Chronomat B01 44 in 18k red gold with a brown dial and matching ceramic rider-tab bezel, reference RB0136E31Q1S1. Next to the Nautilus and the Vacherons of earlier seasons, the big red-gold chronograph on its rouleaux-style rubber strap reads as a louder, less assured statement, a point the coverage itself makes. (DMARGE; Time+Tide) Jacobs confirms the pairing on record, telling Esquire UK that alongside the Richard Mille "we had him with a Breitling and a Rolex Predator". (Esquire UK)

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Rolex Sea-Dweller

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. Season four. Asked about the Richard Mille, Jacobs told Esquire UK that "we had him with a Breitling and a Rolex Predator" as well, which the magazine glosses as the blacked-out Sea-Dweller customised by Bamford Watch Department; the Breitling is the Super Chronomat above. An aftermarket-coated Sea-Dweller cannot be resolved to a factory reference from the interview, and no frame has been found that shows it, no narrower identification is supported. (Esquire UK)

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous

Worn by Brian Cox as Logan Roy. Watch spotters have repeatedly placed a Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous on Logan's wrist, an unexpected sighting, since the Rendez-Vous is marketed as the manufacture's ladies' line, and one of several dress watches attributed to him alongside the Breguet Classique above. The frame shows a round steel watch with printed Arabic numerals on a black strap, consistent with the 37.5 mm Rendez-Vous Date, but no frame resolves a reference, so only the line is confirmed rather than a specific model. (The Hollywood Reporter) Montres de Luxe instead names the piece a Rendez-Vous Tourbillon outright, similarly noting the choice is surprising for a model line marketed to women; the claim carries no reference or frame detail, and it is not clear the two accounts describe the same execution. (Montres de Luxe) Jacobs tells Esquire UK that Logan is "always in Jaeger-LeCoultre" and that "Every season, he's been in a very similar Jaeger", because "He knows what he likes"; she names no model, so the interview neither confirms nor denies the Rendez-Vous reading. (Esquire UK) Boss Hunting, unable to identify Logan's fourth-season watch, describes "a thick white metal watch with a tourbillon window at 6 o'clock and Roman numerals on the dial", and doubts a Rendez-Vous because "there isn't a Rendez-Vous tourbillon reference that isn't gem-set". (Boss Hunting)

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Cartier Panthere de Cartier

Worn by Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy. Shiv Roy favors Cartier, including the Panthere de Cartier in steel and gold. The yellow-gold Panthere, with its exposed bezel screws and brick-link bracelet, has elsewhere been misread as a Cartier Tank Francaise; MR Porter's account of the show's watches contrasts Shiv's Cartiers as "less conventional than, say, a Tank." (MR Porter; Rotate Watches; Montres de Luxe) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). Jacobs gives the run on record: "She's wearing the Cartier Panthère for season one and a white gold and a yellow gold one for season two." Dealer Eric Wind, in GQ's feature on production watch sourcing, notes continuity slips with "Sarah Snook rocking different Cartiers from one scene to the next" and says Cartier supplied watches to the show. (Esquire UK; GQ)

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Cartier Pasha

Worn by Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy. Shiv is also seen in a yellow-gold Cartier Pasha de Cartier on a black leather strap, its round case and chained crown cap separating it from her rectangular Tanks and Panthere, worn in Season 3, Episode 6 ("What It Takes"). (Rotate Watches, Telewatches) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same yellow-gold Pasha, describing the strap as alligator. (Montres de Luxe) Jacobs confirms the season and adds the strap: "at one point in season three she was wearing the Pasha de Cartier", a switch to "a much larger face, round, a heavier wrist-piece", and "At one point we have her in a leather band." (Esquire UK)

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Chopard Happy Sport

Worn by Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy. In Season 4 Shiv switches to a Chopard Happy Sport. (Rotate Watches) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo). GQ's account of the final season's watch sourcing corroborates the maker, noting Shiv "has been spotted in Zenith and Chopard during this latest season". (GQ) Boss Hunting identifies it, hedged as its writer's belief, as a Chopard Happy Sport Limited Edition Automatic, kept on the same kind of metal bracelet as her earlier Panthère. (Boss Hunting)

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Zenith Defy Midnight

Worn by Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy. Season 4 puts Shiv in the 36 mm Zenith Defy Midnight with a mother-of-pearl dial, a model GQ identifies directly in its account of the production's watch selection. (GQ, Rotate Watches)

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Breitling Navitimer

Worn by Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy. Shiv appears to wear a Breitling Navitimer in Season 4, though this identification is tentative. (Rotate Watches)

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Rolex Submariner

Worn by Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch. In Season 3, Kendall goads Cousin Greg into overpaying, around $40,000, for a Rolex Submariner. (Rotate Watches) Time and Tide independently covers the same purchase, describing a black dial and bezel and a modern Glidelock-style clasp, and notes the plot's own punchline: Greg later discovers the watch doesn't even run, joking that it will need to go back to Switzerland for six months at a time. (Time and Tide) Jacobs says the model came from the writers, "With Greg's watch, it was scripted as a Submariner", and that the overpayment was deliberate: "We played it that he was overpaying, for sure." GQ's Danny Milton likewise recalls that Greg "wildly overpaid a dealer" for it. Time+Tide, covering the Heritage sale of the show's props, calls it "the fake Rolex that Greg bought", though whether the prop was genuine is not settled by any source. (Esquire UK; GQ; Time+Tide) Wrist Enthusiast, writing after season 3, episode 3, was instead "fairly confident" that the watch Greg buys through Kendall's grey-market dealer is a Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller, pointing to "The thicker lugs", against the Submariner the production scripted. (Wrist Enthusiast) Boss Hunting, covering the fourth season, describes Greg's Submariner with "a black dial and bezel". (Boss Hunting)

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Rolex GMT-Master II

Worn by Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch. Season four. Hodinkee's Danny Milton, brought in as the show's watch consultant for the final season, told GQ the production "wanted a Rolex for him" and that, with Greg already established as a modern-Rolex man by the overpriced Submariner, "My mind immediately just went to Pepsi GMT on a Jubilee bracelet." Milton also offered a ceramic Daytona, which the team passed over for the GMT. GQ publishes a frame captioned with the Pepsi GMT on Greg's wrist, and Milton calls seeing it there "almost like a surreal experience". The article names no reference. (GQ) Boss Hunting gives the reference as the 126710 "Pepsi", worn in later episodes of the fourth season. (Boss Hunting)

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IWC Pilot Chronograph

Worn by Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch. Probable identification. Boss Hunting reports that, though it is not worn in most of the fourth season's episodes, Greg is "also spotted wearing what I'll bet is an IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph ref. IW388102". The reference is the writer's own guess, and no episode is named. (Boss Hunting)

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Breitling Navitimer

Worn by Alan Ruck as Connor Roy. Montres de Luxe identifies eldest sibling Connor Roy's watch as a vintage Breitling Navitimer, calling it a fitting choice for a character styled as classically, unshowily "old money" next to his siblings' newer luxury pieces. (Montres de Luxe)

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Cartier Tank Louis Cartier

Worn by David Rasche as Karl Muller. Boss Hunting's season-four watch roundup identifies Waystar Royco's CFO Karl Muller's watch as a yellow-gold Cartier Tank Louis Cartier with a contrasting black dial, calling it "a somewhat conservative taste in watches" fitting the man managing the family's money; the source names no reference. (Boss Hunting)

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IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar

Worn by Arian Moayed as Stewy Hosseini. Boss Hunting's season-four watch roundup identifies Stewy Hosseini's watch as an IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar in white gold on a leather strap, 44.2 mm, calling the choice "complicated, yet unambiguously classic" for the character; the source names no reference. (Boss Hunting) The outlet's own composite pairs a steel-cased product photo with a dim scene still in which the watch itself is not legible, so the white-gold case follows the source's account rather than a confirmed frame. A separate aggregator claims Stewy instead wears a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso "often," but the same piece also misattributes Logan Roy's watch as an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak (actually Tom Wambsgans' watch), so it is not treated as a reliable second source here.

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Panerai Luminor

Worn by Fisher Stevens as Hugo Baker. GQ's account of the show's watch sourcing states that "Hugo wore a Panerai Luminor throughout the show's earlier seasons", before the fourth-season switch to a Radiomir recorded below; no model, reference or episode is given, no narrower identification is supported. (GQ)

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Panerai Radiomir

Worn by Fisher Stevens as Hugo Baker. Season four. Danny Milton, the season's watch consultant, told GQ he first suggested "a Breitling, an IWC Spitfire Chronograph, and a Tudor Black Bay 58" for the PR fixer before the production "came back to Panerai with a less obvious, statement-making Radiomir", reasoning that Hugo "is somebody that thinks a bit differently than everybody else" and "would zag when it comes to what Panerai he would choose." GQ adds that Stevens took to the watch. No reference is given, no narrower identification is supported. (GQ)

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Further reading

• Tom Wambsgans’ Watches, Season by Season
• The Watch Gift Is the Power Move