Watches on film: the starring roles played by timepieces on screen

Watch industry trade show Watches & Wonders, which would have taken place last week, is typically awash with Hollywood talent The rise of on-demand streaming services means that watch cameos have moved from the big screen to the small While considering watches for his character in Daylight, Sylvester Stallone stumbled across the brand in a jeweller's window in Italy.

While less strapping leading men have also demonstrated a penchant for the brand's brawny dive watches - see Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary, weird - a cameo in 2018's trigger-happy Death Wish, in which bad-ass vigilante Bruce Willis is gifted a Panerai Radiomir for his birthday, confirms Panerai as the brand of the Hollywood hard man "For fun, we made Tom an all-black one-off watch He happened to be wearing it when he turned up to film Venom and the costume department just loved it" Tom's unique timepiece spawned the stealthy U-2 51 JET, a DLC-cased chronometer that introduced 'Jet' black to Bremont's line-up.

After testing the watches to destruction, Omega's entrant was the only timepiece declared 'flight-qualified for all manned space missions Three years before Bremont equipped Tom Hardy with an all-black watch for Venom, the Henley-on-Thames-based watchmaker's first foray into film saw it equip super-spy Colin Firth with an elegant dress watch in Kingsman: The Secret Service. . Source