I’ve tried searching for this movie on OF, and if it’s been discussed before, I couldn’t find any results. But this is one of the coolest watches I’ve seen in a film since I got into collecting watches.
Last night, my wife and I watched The Terminal with Tom Hanks. During the preview that Netflix plays, I noticed what looked like an 1171 bracelet with a trapezoid Omega logo on it. Needless to say, I got kind of excited. My wife barely rolled her eyes when I paused the movie multiple time to try to get a picture of the watch. I thought it was a Chronostop, but the case looked larger than I would have thought a Chronostop would appear on the wrist. (They do say the camera adds 10 lbs.)
After we finished the movie, I was trying to find a Chronostop with a similar dial online, and I realized the watch case in the movie looked more like a Flightmaster than a Chronostop, but I could see it was a monopusher. Here is my craptastic photo:
I did some searching online, and found several references to this watch and film, and it turns out the watch is a Memomatic 166.071 (Pic borrowed from C24):
Anyways, the movie was kind of silly. It struck me as Spielberg trying to replicate some of the magic of Catch Me If You Can and, unfortunately, failing pretty miserably. That said, it’s not the worst 2 hours of movie watching I’ve experienced in my life.
The most fascinating thing about about the film was finding out the it was inspired by the life of Merhan Naserri - an Iranian refugee who lived in Charles de Gaulle airport for nearly 18 years. In The Terminal, Hanks plays an imagined eastern European version of Nasseri who is left stranded at JFK after his country’s government collapses during his flight.
Some pictures of Nasseri:
Here is an article on Hodinkee about the film and watch, although they couldn’t be bothered to track down an image of the actual reference Hanks wore: Watching Movies: Tom Hanks Lives In An Airport And Wears A Vintage Omega In 'The Terminal'
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/t...ort-and-wears-a-vintage-omega-in-the-terminal
I was able to find threads discussing this film / watch on Timezone and WUS, so it’s absence from OF seemed conspicuous. Has anyone else seen the film / noticed the watch? Has it been discussed here before and I’m just bad at search? Either way, I was delighted to see a unique watch on such a unique character. Although the film didn’t dazzle me, it was a pretty fun role to watch Hanks inhabit.