Jon Hamm’s $360,000 Watch Is Inspired by a Bugatti

If you’re gonna make luxury watches an integral part of your TV show—as they are in Your Friends & Neighbors—then you can’t exactly let your leading man hit the red carpet in some bargain-bin timepiece.

Thankfully, Jacob & Co. came in clutch, hooking up Jon Hamm with a Jean Bugatti to wear to the Season 2 premiere in New York City. In the first season, Hamm’s character Coop stole both a Nautilus and a Richard Mille in the show from—say it with me!—his friends and neighbors. Now, the actor turned up with a watch worthy of one of his small-time heists. The Bugatti Jean fits right in with Coop’s lavish lifestyle: Housed in a 46mm 18K white gold case and fitted with both a chronograph and two tourbillons, it retails for an eye-watering $360,000.

If you’re not familiar with Your Friends & Neighbors, the premise is that Hamm’s character, a down-on-his-luck finance bro, turns to theft to support his affluent lifestyle as he’s fired from his job and his family life falls apart. All the timepieces he steals are of the, ahem, “Connecticut” persuasion: Nautilii, RM, GMT-Masters, etc. “No one would miss this stuff for a while…if ever,” Coop muses. While a piece in the New York Times asserts that the prop masters rented real watches for the shoot, the wheels come off the Swiss-made bus just a bit when the show cuts to an infomercial-like sequence in which specs and caseback shots show a few obviously fake movements. The Illuminati may have wept, but it looked pretty.

But back to an actual watch for a moment: The aforementioned Jacob & Co. Jean Bugatti is precisely the sort of timepiece that someone like Coop might wear to a garden party in Greenwich. Named after Jean Bugatti—eldest son of Ettore Bugatti, founder of his eponymous luxury marque—the watch is based upon the grill and headlights of a vintage Type 57SC Atlantic from the 1930s.

Everything on this special watch was developed from the ground up. The 470-component Calibre JCFM09 features two distinct systems. While the main timekeeping part features dual tourbillons, a peripheral time display, and its own dedicated gear train and barrel, the secondary system is dedicated to the chronograph and features a “digital” minute display and a set of retrograde hands to measure seconds and 10ths of seconds. When the chronograph is reset, the hands actually continue on their respective courses to the end of their displays, after which they leap instantaneously back to zero. (Not distinctly useful for racing purposes, perhaps, but hey—that’s what the clock application on your iPhone is for.)