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Ancient superstition has it that full moons make people mad, and Jack O’Connell knows a bit about madness: cast your eyes down a list of his recent roles and you see a lot of it. Paddy Mayne, the berserk special forces soldier in SAS: Rogue Heroes; the dancing Irish vampire Remnick in Sinners. And Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, a murderous cult leader who dresses like Jimmy Savile, in 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Does O’Connell have a secret source of madness to tap into when characters like these come calling? Maybe he does. Maybe it’s the full moon. At the London premiere of The Bone Temple last night, he wore a TAG Heuer Carrera Astronomer, a watch that has a proper lunar tilt to it. The Astronomer is TAG Heuer’s moonphase variant of its Carrera sports watch line, and as moonphases go, this is an interesting one. Rather than a shy and retiring tiny moon which gradually gets revealed on the dial, as is traditional, it shows every shape of the moon at once, aligned to the number of days each one appears at in the lunar cycle, with a dial that points to the current phase.
There are two steel versions of this, one with a bit of rose gold plating, but O’Connell’s leather-strap number, with suitably unearthly mint-green accents on the numbers, hands and moon icons, is part of a limited run of just 500 that's 39mm and falls well within the under £5k price bracket. Turn it over, and there’s also a graphic of a hefty, high-tech telescope on the back, just in case you needed a visual reminder of what exactly an astronomer does.
At the Sinners London premiere last year, Jack O’Connell was seen wearing a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso – very much a watch of the moment, and an obvious choice for the red carpet. This TAG Heuer is a little stranger, fitting neither into the refined dress watch camp nor the usual lineup of classic steel sports watches (your Rolexes, your Omegas, etc).
This Astronomer is a true vibe match for the actor, insofar as we know him on screen and off – a bit freewheeling, a bit mystical, and in tune with various cosmic energies that may or may not be total nonsense. We could even infer, maybe, that O’Connell is expanding his palate of supernatural beasties and is about to play a werewolf. You’d certainly need to keep track of the lunar cycle if you sprouted fangs at the sight of a full moon.
Either way it's a flex that's taken many by surprise, which seems to be an early theme of celeb watch spotting in 2026 – and we're here for it.