Ken Leung wears an Omega Speedmaster

In the third season of Industry, Eric Tao pulls up to the Pierpoint office in a watch he did not own before, and for this man that registers as news. Eric runs the bank's cross-product sales desk, and he runs it without the usual signals of a managing director: he skips the bespoke suits and the Lamborghinis his colleagues collect, and spends his days off in the bank's own branded merch. Ken Leung plays him as someone who quit performing wealth a long time ago.

The watch is an Omega Speedmaster Professional, the Moonwatch, a 42mm steel chronograph Omega still sells for about 7,000 dollars. NASA qualified it for spaceflight, and Buzz Aldrin wore one on the lunar surface in 1969, the first watch worn on the Moon. By GQ's account it is the one luxury Eric grants himself, and the show's costume designer, Laura Smith, chose it on purpose.

So the least showy operator on the floor spends his money on the watch certified to leave the planet, then takes it nowhere more hostile than a trading desk. Omega built the Speedmaster to survive a rocket launch and the vacuum of a spacewalk; Eric asks it for the time above a Bloomberg terminal. And because the Moonwatch is hand-wound, he has to set it going himself every morning, the rare luxury that asks its owner for something back.