The Rolex, Breitling, & Cartier Timepieces Favored by Some of the Intelligence Community’s Most Notorious Characters
Earlier this year, FBI agents raided the home of CIA officer David Rush, seizing forty million dollars in gold bars, two million in cash, and 35 luxury watches, the majority of them from Rolex. While it may sound extreme, this is only the latest example of luxury watches playing an outsized role in a high-profile espionage case.
In this video on the W.O.E. YouTube Channel, we explore the darker side of the intelligence business and examine the watches worn by some of the community’s most notorious spies, traitors, and thieves. Because in the world’s second-oldest profession, a watch is never just a watch.
