File:Escape from New York (1981) - Rolex Day-Date scene.png

Summary

Description: Donald Pleasence as "The President" aboard the hijacked Air Force One, moments before he ejects in the escape pod, in Escape from New York (1981). The President handcuffs a gold-cornered attache case to his own left wrist by a length of chain (the case is shot open later in the film, in the Duke's target-practice scene). A yellow-gold watch on a heavy, ridged metal bracelet is clearly visible on his wrist just above the white shirt cuff as he works the cuff closed. The watch's dial is angled away from the camera in this frame, so only the case and bracelet are legible; the dial face itself cannot be confirmed from this shot. Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGh3xRLv3c4 (frame at approximately 0:50 into the 2:02 clip) Source publisher: YouTube channel "Found Video", fan-uploaded scene clip titled "Escape From New York 1981/ The President Uses His Escape Pod", sourced from the AVCO Embassy Pictures release Retrieved: 2026-08-18 License or editorial purpose: Single frame from a short scene-clip upload of a theatrical film, used here for non-commercial editorial identification of an on-screen watch appearance on a film/TV watch-spotting reference wiki, consistent with this catalog's established practice for other video-frame sources. Underlying footage remains the copyright of AVCO Embassy Pictures/its successors; no ownership is claimed. Modifications: Time-bounded download only (yt-dlp, video-only stream, formats 136+140, the full 2:02 clip and nothing beyond it, not the film) of the source video. Extracted frames with ffmpeg at 10 fps over the clip's 48-55 second window and selected the sharpest single frame by Laplacian-variance comparison across that run. Saved losslessly as PNG at the source's native 1280x720. No crop, no resize, no color adjustment, no upscaling. No letterbox bars were present in the source to trim and no watermark was present to remove. Related page: Escape from New York (1981)