JLC Master Ultra Thin Perpetual

 

I just watched Touching the Void, which is a slightly less than 2 hour documentary about two climbers, one of whom fell, broke his leg, then fell again into a 300ft cravas and dragged himself off the mountain and survived to live the tail. The climber, Joe Simpson, while retelling his story, is wearing an Omega X 33. The film is from 2003.

 

No one seems to have mentioned The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything from the John D MacDonald book of the same name. A kind of cheezy example, but you can't say the watch is not prominent.

 

Are you sure that wasn't Homer Simpson.

 

I mentioned that TV movie somewhere on this board, another thread I'm sure.
I looked for an Image but what I found looked to be a generic quartz pocket watch, though the screen grab wasn't clear enough to be sure.
I read the book.

 

So many scenes featuring Jane Goodall's watch in the documentary "Jane". I finally got around to watching it. It was very good. Any idea what the watch is?

 

Don’t forget Dick Tracy

 

The Abyss....Seiko 6309

 

Dennis Hopper with a Rolex Pepsi GMT in Speed

 

The League of Gentlemen 1960 (no connection with the later TV series)

Bank robbers are all ex-army officers and mount a well co-ordinated raid.

Lt-Col Hyde (Jack Hawkins) has a Jaeger-LeCoultre



Cpt Porthill (Bryan Forbes, who also wrote the screenplay) has a Smiths




The movie also shows the lovely Nanette Newman in the bath, but I don't want to get banned

 

Love that movie. It kind of got me into JLC watches.

 

Mr. White is my hero

 

The Hitmans bodyguard. Literally just looked up at the tv and saw this. Patek sky moon based on google search?

 

Chinatown (1974) Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) want to know what time someone he is following leaves so he takes a couple of pocket watches out of the glove box of his car, winds and sets them, and leaves one under the tyre of the other car. Smashed up and stopped when he collects it the next day he knows when his target left.

 

the Story of my Life

 

Here's a few screencaps from my DVR...

If you happened to catch the hour long advert for NBC and all of it's relatives titled "30 Rock: A One-Time Special," then you undoubtedly caught Jack Donaghy's Breitling Superocean:



And the reboot of "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe shows him wearing this unidentified piece which is clearly NOT his MRW watch from 2014:

 

This classic scene!

 

Smith’s character also chucks the replica off a roof in downtown Baltimore about 3/4 of the way through the film. How satisfying would it be to chuck a replica off the roof of a tall building?

 

Edit - It’s more like 1/2 way through the movie, that movie was quite a bit longer than it needed to be...

 

The Mosquito Coast (1986) with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Martha Plimpton, and River Phoenix had a couple of mentions of an Omega that was later gifted to their friend Mr. Haddy in the film. At one point Mr. Haddy visits the family again and Ford asks what happened to the Omega, to which Mr. Haddy explains that he traded it for the boat he arrived in and that he even named the vessel "Omega." Haven't seen the film in many years so I don't recall the model, but I believe it was an older dress watch not a sports model like a Speedy. Coincidentally I was planning to rewatch this film over the weekend!

Update: I watched it right after I posted this and here's some screenshots. Omega Seamaster of some variety is my guess? In some frames it looks more gold than steel as implied here, but it wasn't on screen for long. Thicker lug variety, date window, possibly arrow markers, no numerals, two rows of text above the 6 position (possibly "Calendar".




Here's a similar version in steel from Chrono24 that has the two rows of text at the bottom:

I then found this cached page from a defunct website where a gentleman named Greg Simon suggested he has the watch from the film. Naming him here since he already gave his name publicly and in the hopes that he might see this thread one day and comment. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AOAKiw-pIAkJ:www.omega-watches-expert.com/ex-saul-zaentz-employee1.html &cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

The pics are small, and the one of the front of the watch seems corrupted so we can only see the caseback. Here's a slightly larger version of those images. This one says "Seamaster" above the hippocampus and "Waterproof" beneath. How common is that? I'm only accustomed to seeing the Omega logo at the bottom. This, paired with the "Calendar" text on the dial seems to really narrow this reference down a bit and would go a long way to verifying the watch as the one from the film.



Finally, after searching google images I came full circle back to this recent discussion about this film and it's Omega star from this very site from only April of this year: https://omegaforums.net/threads/trade-an-omega-for-a-boat.112090/