Meryl Streep wears a Piaget Extremely Lady

The still on this record is President Orlean at full wattage: red power suit, pink-framed glasses, arms folded in a White House sitting room, and on her left wrist a gold watch on a wide gold mesh bracelet with a ring of diamonds around the dial. Adam McKay wrote and directed Don't Look Up (2021) as a climate allegory, two astronomers discover a planet-killing comet and cannot get anyone to care, and Meryl Streep plays Orlean as a populist who treats extinction as a polling problem, with Jonah Hill as her son and chief of staff. Netflix released it in December 2021 and it became one of the platform's most-watched films.

The watch is a Piaget Extremely Lady: yellow gold, diamond bezel, a plain dial with slim gold hands, on the woven gold bracelet that is the line's signature. The French site Montres-de-luxe logged the model, and an enthusiast video cataloguing the film's watches independently agreed, down to the mesh bracelet, pricing it at 76,000 dollars and delivering the most honest line anyone wrote about it: "elegant, gaudy, and shows that corruption pays." Piaget has been making watches in La Cote-aux-Fees since 1874 and built its modern reputation on ultra-thin movements; the Extremely Lady trades on the house's other tradition, gold and diamonds worn as jewelry that happens to tell time.