Kevin O'Leary wears a Seiko Super

Kevin O'Leary did not want to wear a prop in Marty Supreme (2025). Cast as Milton Rockwell, the wealthy backer circling Timothée Chalamet's table-tennis hustler, he insisted on owning the watches he wore on screen, and for the Japanese one he went to Seiko. By his own account the company first told him that selling a piece from its museum collection was impossible. Two days later the watch arrived in New York as a gift.

It is a Seiko Super from 1952, a small round watch with the Japanese flag stamped on its caseback, a detail O'Leary points to as the mark of a watch built in the first years after the Second World War. Seiko introduced the Super in 1950 as its first wristwatch with a central seconds hand, and the movement became the template for the company's postwar production: eight jewels at first, seventeen later, gaining water resistance and a calendar along the way, in cases of 27 to 30 millimeters. The models built on it were a big hit, sold under a wide variety of elaborate dial designs, and the Super remained Seiko's mainstay until 1956, when the Marvel, the first movement the company designed entirely in-house, replaced it. A 1952 example comes from the early years of that run.

Rockwell wears the Seiko on his right wrist, set, by O'Leary's account, to Tokyo time; his other wrist carries a 1952 Patek Philippe Hour Glass, both watches on red straps. The pairing had a scene of its own, which Josh Safdie cut, in which Rockwell promises Marty that success means wearing two watches with two time zones. The Tokyo in that promise is real in the plot: Rockwell offers Marty an exhibition match there, and Marty refuses it when he learns he would be expected to throw it. O'Leary kept both watches and says he still wears them.