File:The Sopranos (1999) - Rolex Day-Date scene (Big Pussy).jpg

Summary

Description: The Sopranos (1999), "Funhouse" (Season 2, Episode 13). Close-up on the cabin carpet of the Soprano crew's boat as Paulie Gualtieri unclasps the yellow gold Rolex Day-Date from the wrist of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero (Vincent Pastore) moments after Tony, Silvio, and Paulie have shot him for informing to the FBI. The watch is still fastened around Pussy's wrist, dial facing the camera: gold President-style bracelet, a diamond-set bezel, and the red dial named in the page's notes. Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCkURGNsyc (fan-uploaded excerpt of "Funhouse," titled "'The Sopranos'. The Murder of Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero"; frame at approximately 3:02 of the 3:11 clip) Source publisher: HBO (episode footage; YouTube re-upload by channel "iris") Retrieved: 2026-08-18 License or editorial purpose: Copyrighted TV still used for identification and commentary on the watch worn in the scene (editorial fair use). Modifications: Video-frame extraction per project standards. Downloaded only the 00:02:55-00:03:11 section of the source video (yt-dlp --download-sections) at its native 1280x720 stream, then extracted a single frame at approximately 00:03:02 with ffmpeg. Saved as PNG and converted to JPEG (quality 95) for delivery. No crop, no resize, no upscale. A Lanczos-downscale/bicubic-upscale reversibility check on the delivered frame returned a mean absolute difference of about 0.68/255, consistent with normal h.264 compression softening at a standard, unremarkable 720p YouTube tier rather than a fake upscale (no exaggerated resolution was ever claimed for this source). Related page: The Sopranos (1999)