File:The Sea Wolves (1980) - Omega Seamaster scene.jpg

Summary

Description: David Niven, in character as retired Colonel W.H. Grice in The Sea Wolves (1980), shown resting his forehead against his raised left hand in a moment of visible strain/distress; a gold ring is visible on the raised hand's finger. A round stainless-steel wristwatch on a black leather strap is clearly worn on the same (left) wrist, positioned near his temple — case shape, lugs, dot hour-markers, and strap material are all discernible, matching BAMF Style's independent text description of Niven's Sea Wolves watch as "a stainless Omega Seamaster on a dark leather strap." No dial text/reference number is legible at this resolution. This is the same underlying frame as the previously published scene image (confirmed by pixel-level cross-correlation: resizing this file to the prior file's width and diffing against it finds a near-exact match, mean channel difference ~1.4/255, at a 150px vertical offset), but retrieved from the source site's own larger "full" size folder (img/f/) rather than the "medium" folder (img/m/) the prior file used — the same close-up captured with more vertical headroom (more of Niven's forehead/hairline and more of his shirt collar) instead of the medium folder's tightly cropped horizontal strip. Identity of the actor was verified by comparison against contemporaneous on-set Getty/Michael Ochs Archive production photography of this same film (captioned "Actors Gregory Peck, David Niven and Roger Moore on set... The Sea Wolves 1980") — the balding pattern, thin grey mustache, and weathered facial structure match; face is not looking at camera and eyes are downcast, so this is corroboration by feature-matching against confirmed-identity production stills rather than a frontal, camera-facing match. Image is small/low-resolution (600x450) and slightly soft, consistent with an early-2000s/2010s-era DVD screencap, but is a materially larger, less aggressively cropped copy of the same authentic frame than the previously published 550x262 file; the watch is genuinely and personally discernible, including its round case and strap, at this larger size. Source URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20120516182040/http://watchesinmovies.info/img/f/SeaWolves_Omega.jpg (Wayback Machine capture of the original, now-404 image formerly hosted at http://watchesinmovies.info/img/f/SeaWolves_Omega.jpg; the site's live current page for this title, https://watchesinmovies.info/movies/sea-wolves-the-1980/, still exists and still references the same now-broken img/m/SeaWolves_Omega.jpg path used by the prior file, without linking to a larger version, so the img/f/ copy is only recoverable via this Wayback capture. The historical detail page that embedded and credited this sighting, https://watchesinmovies.info/sea-wolves-the-1980/ — "Actor: David Niven / Character: Col. W.H. Grice / Watch: Omega Seamaster / Submitted By: tadman on TimeZone" — was not itself found in the Wayback CDX index; only the image URLs are.) Source publisher: Screencap sourced/hosted by Watches in Movies (watchesinmovies.info); underlying film footage © Paramount Pictures / Varius Entertainment / Euan Lloyd Productions, "The Sea Wolves" (1980) Retrieved: 2026-08-15 License or editorial purpose: Copyrighted film still used for identification and commentary on the watch worn in the scene (editorial fair use). Modifications: None — delivered exactly as archived (600x450, the source site's own "full"-folder crop framing David Niven's hand/watch and face). No letterbox/pillarbox bars present: row-by-row mean/std sampling at the top and bottom edges reads mean ~32-40 / std ~24-29 throughout, i.e. genuine dim shadowed content, not a flat near-zero-std encoded bar. Corners were inspected at 3x zoom for a third-party watermark; none found. Related page: The Sea Wolves (1980)