Worn by: Joaquin Phoenix as Abe Lucas
Reference: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra
Brand: Omega
Abe Lucas’s Omega Seamaster in Irrational Man is the one object in his disordered world that still runs on logic. Joaquin Phoenix plays the weary philosophy professor whose moral experiments spiral into murder, and the watch—its crisp indices and mechanical precision—contrasts sharply with his unraveling mind. When he first lectures on Kant and despair, the Seamaster peeks from under his frayed cuff, the silent metronome of reason he’s about to betray. Later, as he plots and rationalizes his crime, the Omega remains steady, indifferent. Its rhythm becomes the film’s irony: a perfectly ordered mechanism worn by a man proving that reason can be fatally irrational.