Jeremy Strong wears a Richard Mille RM 67

In the second-to-last episode of Succession, Kendall Roy goes to his father's funeral in a black suit, a Richard Mille on his wrist. Jeremy Strong plays Kendall, the son who spends four seasons certain the company will be his and gets proven wrong every time. The watch is the one thing he picked for the day, and it suits a man who once built a small town with a VIP treehouse for his fortieth birthday.

The reference is a Richard Mille RM 67-01 Automatic Winding Extra Flat in grade 5 titanium. By the brand's standards it is the discreet one: 7.75mm thick, the slimmest tonneau case Richard Mille builds, its skeletonised CRMA6 movement left open front and back so the mechanism shows through. It runs about 135,000 dollars at retail, and more than that secondhand. Esquire, which identified the reference, called it a design that whispers instead of shouts.

Most of the watches on Succession were assigned. Prop master Monica Jacobs sat down with each actor, and for the final season Hodinkee's Danny Milton wrote multi-page notes on every character and matched a watch to each, a Rolex Pepsi GMT for Cousin Greg, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph for Tom. Strong, who method-acts Kendall, skipped all of that. By his own account, Amanda Mille, the brand and partnerships director at Richard Mille, simply gave him the watch to wear, and he wore it.

So the house that builds some of the loudest watches on earth supplied Kendall's, and Kendall wore its quietest model to bury the father whose company he never got to run. Strong kept it on after the show ended. He turned up on Jimmy Kimmel's couch a year and a half later in the same look he wore as Kendall, the Richard Mille included.