Remember when Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill's guys photoshopped out his $30K gold Breguet watch but you could still see it in the reflection on the table? 
https://twitter.com/b_nishanov/status/1352728532208783364
That was 2012, before everyone on Twitter became a Russia expert, so I thought I'd share.
To cross my streams, @Kasparov63 was known for taking off his big gold watch (he had an Audemars Piguet sponsorship) at the board as part of his settling-in ritual. He's credited with putting it back on "to signal to his opponent that the game was over" but that's mostly myth.
I've seen him do it when he was sure the game was clearly drawn, and maybe it was a hint hint to his opponent against wasting time playing on, but not many examples of him putting it back on awaiting a resignation, as the legend has it. He did it vs Deep Blue in 97 tho!
Lots of fun stories and tall tales when you google Kasparov and putting on his watch. It's a cool bit of (mostly) mythology and I'm sure his sponsors didn't mind! I think he has a deal with watchmaker Von Doren now?
Hah, and they run with it. Love it. "He usually took the watch off during the play and only put it back on, to signal to his opponent that the game would be over soon in his favour." vondoren.com/single-post/ch…
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