I watched War of the worlds last night with Tom Cruise. Never noticed before, but when the Martians came out of the ground and all the power was cut, Tom tapped his watch that had stopped, which looked like a gold Omega chronograph Speedie ?. What a stupid unbelievable film... A Speedmaster would never stop !!.
Looks like a Cal 321 with the 3 minute interval minutes subdial Dennis mentioned was for tracking phone call durations
Correct - a manual wind movement would not stop since it has no electronic components to be disabled by an EMP. However, it's the movies so (a) the writers might not have known there's no battery or (b) figured the audience would be too dumb to know there's no battery.
You'd be surprised, guy I met at my brother's restaurant has two Rolex 16618 18K Submariners and a 1803 Day-Date and said the sub he was wearing must be needing a new battery soon because it stops if he doesn't wind it.
More likely, the prop or wardrobe dept didn't know what they were doing. Writers probably wrote, " ... looks at watch that has stopped. CLOSE UP OF WATCH... "