Your Patek Philippe is at home. You gave your Panerai to your deadbeat brother-in-law, and your Rolex Yachtmaster is in the Hamptons. Just as Sam Walton drove a Ford truck and Warren Buffett drives a Lincoln, get yourself a Swatch ($66) like Lloyd Blankfein or a Nike sport swatch ($85) like Hank Paulson.
Or better yet, don’t wear one. The power move is to have a few watches stuffed away at home, and then, rarely, if ever, wear one. When you control time, you don’t need to know what time it is.
John LeFevre is the creator of @GSElevator and the author of the New York Times bestselling book and Amazon Book of the Month, Straight To Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, And Billion-Dollar Deals out now on paperback.