Sydney McLaughlin — watch collection

About Sydney McLaughlin’s watch collection

Sydney McLaughlin is an American track and field athlete widely regarded as the greatest 400-meter hurdler in the history of the sport. Born in 1999 in Dunellen, New Jersey, she burst onto the international scene as a teenager when she became the youngest American woman to qualify for an Olympic Games in track and field in 40 years, earning a spot at Rio 2016 at just 16 years old. She went on to claim Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and has broken the 400-meter hurdles world record multiple times, driving the event's benchmark to previously unthinkable territory. Beyond the track, McLaughlin — who married NFL wide receiver Andre Levrone Jr. in 2022 and now competes as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone — has become one of the most commercially visible athletes in American sports, holding partnerships with New Balance, among others.

The Sydney McLaughlin watch collection, as far as our cameras have been able to document, centers on TAG Heuer. The confirmed sighting came at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, where McLaughlin sat on the track after running a 50.68-second world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Post-race photographs clearly showed a TAG Heuer Link Lady in black ceramic on her wrist — specifically, the reference WBC1317.BA0600, a 32mm watch built from a full black ceramic case with an integrated bracelet of the same material. Ceramic construction at that scale is technically demanding to execute, and the all-black result produces a low-profile, sport-adjacent look that reads cleanly on a competitive athlete in race kit. It is a considered choice rather than an obvious one.

With only one watch currently logged in our database, it would be premature to draw sweeping conclusions about McLaughlin's broader horological preferences. What the single confirmed piece does suggest, however, is a lean toward functional aesthetics over overt luxury display — the Link Lady is unmistakably a Swiss luxury watch, but the black ceramic variant sits closer to understated than showy. Given her growing commercial profile, it seems reasonable to expect more wrist sightings as her public presence continues to expand.