File:Kennedy et moi (1999) - Hamilton Linwood Viewmatic scene.jpg

Summary

Description: Jean-Pierre Bacri, face turned back toward camera, as Simon Polaris in Kennedy et moi (1999), gripping a rope aboard a boat during the film's harbor/sailing sequence -- the same shot documented by the previously-used lobby-card still (same rigging, same two orange-sheaved pulleys, same dark olive blazer, same head-turned pose), but captured here as an unenhanced frame from the film itself rather than a scanned print. The sky retains a soft cream gradient instead of blowing out to white as the print did, and Bacri's face and jacket keep full tonal range. A wristwatch is discernible on his right wrist between shirt cuff and gripping hand: a steel case on a black leather or rubber strap with a steel buckle, both sharply resolved at full zoom. The watch case/dial itself is not visible in this pose, since his fingers are wrapped around the rope over it. The specific model identification (Hamilton Linwood Viewmatic) rests on Hamilton's own archived placement credit cited on this page, not on frame-level brand/model text, which is not legible at this resolution. Source URL: https://m.ok.ru/video/7916157995618 (fan-uploaded full-film copy titled "Kennedy et moi ~ Jean-Pierre Bacri Nicole Garcia-Patrick Chesnais (Sam Karmann 1999) EngSub"; HD stream variant, native 1280x692, ~1455 kbps; frame at approximately 1:10:25-1:10:26 into the 1:22:49 runtime) Source publisher: Captured from an OK.ru (Odnoklassniki) user upload, not an official rights-holder channel. Rights holder for the underlying work remains Pathe Distribution / Roissy Films (the same chain already credited for the previously-used still and named in the page's scene_credit=Roissy Films); the platform/uploader is recorded here only to document reproducibility, per editorial standards on capture-source attribution. Retrieved: 2026-08-15 License or editorial purpose: Frame extracted from a streaming copy of the film under this pipeline's standing scene-frame sourcing rule (any available copy, including a streaming capture, may be used to extract a frame when it is the strongest authentic evidence of the cited scene); reproduced here at reduced size under editorial/commentary fair use to document a specific watch appearance on IMWDb, a non-commercial film-and-watches reference wiki. Modifications: Downloaded the HD (1280x692) stream with yt-dlp, cut the relevant ~25-second window with ffmpeg (stream copy, no re-encode of the source), then extracted this single frame with ffmpeg and saved as JPEG. No crop, no upscale, no sharpening, no color correction beyond the source's own broadcast color processing. Full native frame retained; no black bars present at this aspect ratio to trim. Related page: Kennedy et moi (1999)