Nerdery of a different stripe

So, a question has burned in a certain community for some time about Senator, then President-elect, and now President Obama. It’s a terribly important one, at least in a certain group, and that question is of course: “What watch does Barack Obama wear?”

Well, wonder no more. Short answer: he wore a fairly uninteresting TAG-Heuer until August of 2007, when his Secret Service detail gave him a watch for his 46th birthday (purchased from the Secret Service employees’ store).

It’s this big black chronograph that’s been in most of the campaign pictures, his official portrait, and that was on his wrist when he took the oath. No, you can’t buy one, at least not like his; they’re not that expensive, but they are limited to Secret Service employees.

Aren’t you glad that’s settled?

4 thoughts on “Nerdery of a different stripe

  1. That’s a nice-looking watch. What do you think the chances are that the manufacturer will start producing a non-Secret Service branded edition?

  2. Yeah; read the article. I suspect most of the watches they sell of that model are non-SecSer-branded; it appears the manufacturer makes watches to be branded by customers for sale, and that the Secret Service is one such customer.

    So, yeah, you could probably get it with either no logo, or some other logo, but there may be volume requirements.