Please name a movie in which a watch figured prominently?

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"The Silent Enemy" (1958) is a truly interesting & great World War II movie, based on facts in the life of Royal Navy Commander Lionel Phillip Buster Crabb. Diver wristwatches can be spotted at 27:20 and 44:44 and 1:38:32 clearly detailed at 1:41:29 in the movie.
Submariner 6536 ?
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breaking bad calibre 12. Iconic scene where Mr White times 10 kills in 2 min with chrono. Take that McQueen!
 
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Live and Let Die .... the 5513:

A bit more digging and apparently he wore a Tissot for the Speedboat scene for some reason … and allegedly a Hamilton Pulsar features in Live and Let Die as well.... but I have studied the scene with Madeline Smith in very great detail and cant spot the watch...…..
The saw tooth bezel on the sub is fun …. I guess one time over polishing (grinding even) has added value :0)
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A lovely Speedy shot with Gene Hackman in 'Marooned' from 1969!


Great pictures... three astronauts (one called Jim) in a Command module running out of Oxygen in 1969. ...The trouble with Hollywood is the plots they come up with are so crazy and unbelievable :0)
 
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Lee Majors (aka The Six Million Dollar Man) as pilot in the 1983 movie " Starflight One - The Plane That Couldn't Land "
Looks like he wore an Omega Speedmaster ? 😕
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The Man Who Would Be King

Peachy (Michael Caine) steals a pocket watch and when he realises it belongs to a fellow Freemason chases after him to give it back. That's how he meets "Rudyard Kipling" the author of the original short story.





Michael Caine met his 2nd wife while making this movie and married her fast enough that she is credited as Shakira Caine in the released film. Not a lot of people know that.
 
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The saw tooth bezel on the sub is fun …. I guess one time over polishing (grinding even) has added value :0)
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According to ‘A Man and his Watch,’ that particular Sub sold at Christie’s for not far off a quarter of a million dollars in 2011. And it can’t actually tell the time; they had to remove the movement in order to make way for the airflow system that made the bezel spin! Q would have been proud. (AMAHW is an excellent read incidentally, in case you haven’t already.)
 
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ZODIAC (2007 movie) = Zodiac Sea Wolf Automatic ( at: 3:31 )
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I think the film has been mentioned here prior but I watched “the American” with George Clooney this past week and was surprised by all the shots of his speedmaster. Didn’t seem like it played a central part in the film so it was either great product placement or the watch had more meaning and I missed its link to the plot which is quite possible as while not a fantastic movie it was good but I did drift off a few times. It did look nice on the leather strap he put in on.

Edit quick search showed me this
https://likeafilmstar.com/the-american-watch/
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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.
 
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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.

That is a great spot - I bet your better half goes nuts when you keep pausing a film if you spot a watch (I know mine does :0)
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I watched "The Bridges of Madison County" last night and wondered what watch Clint Eastwood wore in it. It had 2 subdials.
Anybody have any idea what it was?
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Time is very central to the plot so you can do a lot clock and watch spotting in the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters. It used a lot of original equipment and some of the actors served in the war. Apparently, this depiction of the raid provided inspiration for the Death Star trench run in Star Wars a new hope. Lots of watches in the 6B/159 style. Also, a travel clock belonging to a crewman from one of the 8 missing aircraft (56 men) features in the reflective last minutes which convey the poignant mix of emotions felt by the characters – triumph over striking a successful blow against the enemy's industrial base is tempered by the sobering knowledge that many died in the process of delivering it.
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The reverse Panda dial Breitling pilot watch of the French Air Force Major flying as an observer onboard the RAF Avro Vulcan bomber in the 1965 James Bond movie " Thunderball " plays an important role in order to identify the wearer, but in the different underwater scenes, several watches were used, as the pilot wore one on a bracelet and one on what looks like a Rolex Oyster bracelet...
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