Alien (1979)

Alien

Ridley Scott's science-fiction horror film. After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. (IMDb)

Watches

Casio F-100

Worn by Tom Skerritt as Arthur Dallas. Nostromo captain Dallas wears the same twinned double F-100 as the rest of the crew. The 2014 video game Alien: Isolation retroactively branded this in-universe prop the "Samani E-125," but on the Shepperton Studios set in 1978 and 1979 it was two off-the-shelf Casio F-100s and a piece of orange plastic. (Iconic Hours) Hodinkee's column names Captain Dallas alongside Ripley as wearing the twinned F-100 prop, and credits props to Dave Jordan. (Hodinkee)

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Casio F-100

Worn by Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley. Ripley wears Casio's first resin-cased watch aboard the Nostromo; the modern A100 commemorates it. The Nostromo prop department actually built the crew's watches from two F-100 units joined face to face on an orange backing plate, giving the piece a wider, double-faced look than a stock F-100. Propstore's Los Angeles 2023 live auction (June 2023, lot 10) sold Ripley's screen-used watch, worn "throughout the film", as "a black Casio F-100 watch preserved in a custom acrylic display", its face laid out for month, date and day beneath the four red and black buttons and its wristband significantly deteriorated; the auction record puts the F-100 identification on a documented production piece rather than on the frame alone. (Propstore) Hodinkee's Watching Movies column describes the prop as two connected Casio F-100s with a red border on what appears to be a standard rubber strap, made by taking a regular production 1979 F-100 and turning it into a dual-watch model because, in the column's reading, the standard watch was not futuristic enough for the film; it places the watch on Ripley as she drinks coffee while pressing the crew to investigate the signal and at the mess table as she tends to Kane, and credits props to Dave Jordan. Hodinkee calls the border red where Iconic Hours reads the backing plate as orange. (Hodinkee)

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