Milton Berle wears an unidentified watch

By 1963, Milton Berle had been famous for fifteen years and unemployed for nearly as long. "Mr. Television" had owned Tuesday nights in the early 1950s, but his NBC show ended in 1956 and nothing since had matched it. Stanley Kramer cast him in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as J. Russell Finch, a loud businessman in loud shirts who joins the race to find $350,000 in buried cash after witnessing a dying man's confession on a California highway.

The image for this sighting is the film's poster art, so the watch itself isn't visible. Finch wears a gold dress watch — the kind of accessory a man like Finch would use to signal wealth he may or may not have. Berle was a physical comedian first, and the gold watch works as a prop for the gap between Finch's self-image and his actual behavior: a man who thinks he's refined while literally tackling strangers over money.