16 Watches That Made History in Hollywood Action Films

Some watches that achieve a big-screen debut in an action film take on a larger-than-life role beyond the screen, firmly cementing their status both in Hollywood history and in watch-collecting circles for decades and potentially for centuries to come Arguably one of the greatest flight films of all time, Top Gun firmly solidified Tom Cruise as one of the biggest film stars of his generation You might think that a $125,000 watch would be too precious to brave explosions, heavy-duty combat fire, runaway trains, parkour-style building jumps, and pretty much every stunt you could ever dream up, but only a 50 mm titanium piece at 1780 mm thick such as this could handle that kind of action on Sly's pumped-up wrists.

While the placement of the watches in the film were unpaid, the British watchmaker was so closely connected to the film that Vaughn even invited Bremont cofounder Nick English for a brief guest appearance in the film as a Kingsman agent Spoiler alert: While most watch brands' only role in films is to adorn the wrists of the leading characters, Carl F Bucherer was the leading character of Atomic Blonde.

In real life, approximately more than 110,000 pilot, navigator, and soldier watches were delivered by Omega during World War II to Great Britain's Military of Defence to support its air force and navy pilots during service Christian Bale solidified the relationship between Jaeger-LeCoultre and Batman when he wore three different Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso timepieces throughout all of the Dark Knight trilogy films directed by Christopher Nolan. . Source