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Please name a movie in which a watch figured prominently?

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Anthony Hopkins sports a Omega Seamaster on a speidel bracelet in “The worlds fastest Indian”

Hats off to the prop guys as I found this

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I was Monty's Double (1958)
superb WW II story based on the autobiography of Edward Clifton James (1898 – 1963) an actor/officer with a resemblance to General Bernard Montgomery, was employed to pretend to be the general as part of a campaign designed to deceive the Germans in the lead-up to D-Day.
Some nice watches can be spotted through the movie
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I just watched "Sharper" on Apple TV+ last night. The opening shot is of a Rolex getting assembled.
 
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Let's not forget The Adam Project (exclusively on Netflix), in which a single Speedmaster [spoiler alert-->] becomes three Speedmasters, simultaneously.
 
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In the Marvel movie "Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," a JLC Master Ultra Thin Perpetual plays a somewhat important role. It's not worth sitting through that movie to see it, though.
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On a wing and a prayer (maybe that describes how they wrote the script) not the best movie or the best photos but Dennis Quaid is definitely sporting a Speedy pro as he fights to retain some acting dignity while flying to save his family and of course a chance to enjoy honey bear BBQ sauce again.
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In Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, the psychopath Bruno checks his watch (a spiffy two-register chronograph with a snail-track tachymeter, if that’s what any of that is called) after killing the estranged wife of Guy Haines, a man he met by chance earlier. The shot establishes that the killing takes place at a time that Haines seemingly has an airtight alibi. The chronograph is running, as if Bruno were checking his progress against a carefully laid plan. He seems about to pause the stopwatch, not quite 30 minutes after it was started.
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I watch about three movies a year all the way through—no time, zero ability to stay awake in front of the TV, at odds, language-wise, with my family—but I had to watch this after reading the Patricia Highsmith novel it was based on. I highly recommend the book, her debut novel, which is fantastic and a lot richer and more intense than the film. The themes of obsession, sociopathy, and murderous fixation on living another person’s life are vividly and mercilessly examined, revisited famously in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the film version of which is apparently impossible to view in Japan without firing up the old kerosene-powered DVD player.
 
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In Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, the psychopath Bruno checks his watch (a spiffy two-register chronograph with a snail-track tachymeter, if that’s what any of that is called) after killing the estranged wife of Guy Haines, a man he met by chance earlier. The shot establishes that the killing takes place at a time that Haines seemingly has an airtight alibi. The chronograph is running, as if Bruno were checking his progress against a carefully laid plan. He seems about to pause the stopwatch, not quite 30 minutes after it was started.
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I watch about three movies a year all the way through—no time, zero ability to stay awake in front of the TV, at odds, language-wise, with my family—but I had to watch this after reading the Patricia Highsmith novel it was based on. I highly recommend the book, her debut novel, which is fantastic and a lot richer and more intense than the film. The themes of obsession, sociopathy, and murderous fixation on living another person’s life are vividly and mercilessly examined, revisited famously in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the film version of which is apparently impossible to view in Japan without firing up the old kerosene-powered DVD player.

Fantastic catch!

Talented Mr Ripley is a great movie. All star cast, and many levels of intrigue. Every character plays a victim of their flaws.
 
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Fantastic catch!

Talented Mr Ripley is a great movie. All star cast, and many levels of intrigue. Every character plays a victim of their flaws.
The novel is a wonder. Ripley’s self-pitying, wheedling mediocrity is on constant display as you’re drawn into seeing everything through his eyes, to the point that you feel jumpy when he’s on the verge of another murder—you’re like, idiot! You’ll ruin everything! And you’re relieved when he doesn’t go through with it, and then congratulations, you’re on team psychopath now. Tony Soprano and Walter White are two antiheroes whose existence owes a lot to Highsmith’s scary focus.
 
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Superb. Looks tiny, and now I have another goddamn watch to search for and buy.
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I’ve seen this type of watch before.




Made by a company called Lapanouse, which apparently specialized in pin-pallet chronographs. Movement is also known as Rego.

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&Rego_135

Hope this helps,
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Interesting. I have several of these. I just got a case a couple of weeks ago (well seems lik a month.) That fit a movement I already had. Usually the give away is the pushers on the left side. Often the buttons just stop and start the balance wheel.

I suspect some of the other cheap 'Landeron.' cases where the pushers do not align may be for these cheap chronos. Sometime one needs to go to extreme means to make the movement fit.

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I have been noticing watches more in films and TV, Usually they are hard to identify. There is a netflix 'Kids' show about Mermaids called H2O Just add water. Most of the actors seem to be wearing watches. One episode even deals with a watch being lost. Since the girl (recently transformed into a mermaid.) can not get wet. Much happens to recover the watch from the busy harbor.
It is also interesting how quick tech changes. In the early episodes the characters use flip phones. In the later ones smart phones are used. Which even provides another plot point when one is used to photograph the mermaids. Laptops are often covered with stickers to hide the manufacture or model. Laptops also provide plot maguffins. Even in the cartoon spinoff. It is always interesting when a cartoon character needs a watch, phone or laptop.

I suspect most of these are inexpensive prop watches. Some could be the actors personal watch. I remember that supposedly in the old Sward and Sandals epics like Ben Hur, Sparticus, Cleopatra etc. one could see the Roman extras wearing wristwatches.
 
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Let's not confuse watch with time. There are many great sci-fi movies that involve the concept of "time", for example: Arrival to name a recent one.
Please think of movies where the watch itself figured very prominently.
I'll start with: Interstellar
The watch: Hamilton Khaki Automatic

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Apollo 13. Omega chrono saved their lives by timing a precise manual engine burn to set up a re-entry angle into the atmosphere. To prevent them from having a very bad day by being roasted alive.
 
DougPhx
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Let's not confuse watch with time. There are many great sci-fi movies that involve the concept of "time", for example: Arrival to name a recent one.
Please think of movies where the watch itself figured very prominently.
I'll start with: Interstellar
The watch: Hamilton Khaki Automatic

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Oops! Didn’t see the date, sorry for resurrecting a 4 year old thread! ::facepalm1::
 
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'Speed' - "It's a cheap, gold watch!"

Also, Dan Akroyd's watch in 'Trading Places' - "In Philly, it's worth fifty bucks."
 
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Interesting that the brand seems to be blotted out for the film.
Very common. The movies had brand placement deals back then also.
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