The sad part is that succession has ended and the good news, that its end has achieved what many other series have failed: satisfy viewers, fans and critics. So we can now officially write his name on the podium of the best television fiction of all time. The ingredients have been a realistic and coherent script, complex characters and impeccable attention to detail. And it is that everything in his episodes is measured: the looks, the silences of what is not said, the wardrobe… Each chapter is a mine of easter eggs that complete and enrich the story.
the wardrobe of successionAlthough sober in appearance, he is practically one more character in the series. Above all, taking into account that it is led by people who are part of the richest 1% of the population. Them (with permission from Sofia Richie) have made the old money aesthetic and the concept of “quiet luxury” fashionable. What they wear tells us about their personality and rank within the capitalist system.
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In this way, the wristwatch is a particularly interesting accessory to analyze in this character who began as Logan Roy’s climbing and ass-licking son-in-law to end up succeeding him, by surprise, as CEO, after the tycoon’s death. We are talking, of course, about Tom Wambsgans.
During the first season of successionwhen Tom was just the boyfriend of Shiv Roy, whom she wanted to position well within her father’s company, the character wore a fake Cartier Ballon Bleu.
However, for the third season, already within the family as Shiv’s husband and after having eaten several (and serious) corporate brownies, we already see him show off on the wrist a Cartier Santos, a watch that has a price of about 7,700 euros.
However, by the fourth season of the series, in which he ends up crowned with the prized title of CEO of Waystar Royco, passing over his wife and her brothers, Tom Wambsgans already looked an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph for around 80,000 euros with a Bleu Nuit Grand Tapisserie dial.
It is a piece that gives a lot of cache but also makes it clear that the wearer has the clear intent to impress. Without a doubt, it is a detail that, although it went unnoticed by the vast majority of viewers, marked the great evolution that this character has undergone and could anticipate the great threat he was in a competition in which no one expected it.
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