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The Best Watches From Super Bowl LIX Including Tom Bradys Jaw

From Serena Williams’ on-theme AP to Jalen Hurts’s ultra-complicated Patek, the big game was brimming with outrageous wristwear.

The big game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs was a bit of a bust. The Birds jumped out to an early lead that they never relinquished. Luckily, there was plenty of excitement elsewhere at Super Bowl LIX, like Kendrick Lamar getting the whole stadium to shout “A minor” or Tom Brady’s Liberace-does-business-casual outfit.

Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl winner himself, returned as a commentator in the booth. The numerous cutaways to Brady and partner Kevin Burkhardt showed the former quarterback in a mystifying getup. For the most part, Brady looked as though he’d raided Don Draper’s closet, nailing all the elements of a suit this magazine would have recommended in 2011: there was a pocket square neatly tucked into his breast pocket and a tie bar on his tie. But all that subdued elegance wound up clashing with his choice in wristwear—a watch so gilded and over-the-top it would’ve made Cleopatra blush.

The watch in question is a $740,000 Jacob & Co. Caviar Tourbillon in Yellow Sapphires. As the name promises, and as your eyes have surely worked out, there are a few yellow sapphires involved in the making of this watch—371 of them, to be exact, across the case, dial, and crown. I could go on to tell you about the watch’s 42-hour power reserve or the flying tourbillon that sits at 6 o’clock, but time telling is a little beside the point when it comes to a piece of this magnitude.

The Caviar Tourbillon is a watch you wear to make the blingiest of statements. Every time the cameras flipped to the booth during the game, Brady’s watch was impossible to ignore. He seemed to wear it as a reminder that even though he wasn’t out there on the field anymore, he is still that guy—undeniably the greatest to ever play the sport. It’s striking that he waited to wear this watch until the Super Bowl. Rather than fade into the fabric of the game, the Caviar Tourbillon went viral the moment it appeared onscreen and became as memorable as any play on the field on Sunday. Even retired at age 47, Brady refuses to merely be a spectator at the Super Bowl.

But Brady wasn’t the only one to show up in a killer watch at the Super Dome. In fact, he wasn’t even the only guy with a Jacob & Co. on his wrist.