The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese's stockbroker excess saga. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. (IMDb)

Watches

Seiko Solar SNE057

Worn by Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. The watch of Belfort's first days at L.F. Rothschild, clearest at the lunch where Hanna dispenses his chest-thumping career advice: a plain steel Seiko with a blue sunburst dial and 3-o'clock day-date that spotting coverage identifies as the solar SNE057. The reference is a quiet anachronism: the SNE057 is a V158 solar-quartz model Seiko released around 2011, current when the film was shot, standing in for the kind of affordable, forgettable watch a 22-year-old trainee would have worn in 1987, and it bookends the gold TAG Heuers of Belfort's rise. (Italian Watch Spotter; WatchRanker) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same steel Seiko SNE057 on a steel bracelet, worn early in the film before Belfort's rise. (Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee, whose column is built on an interview with prop master Robert R. Griffon Jr., says it had not noticed the Seiko until Griffon pointed it out and hedges it as "a Seiko Solar on a stretch band with a blue or black dial", the day-date visible in the lunch with McConaughey; that scene is the only time in the film DiCaprio wears his watch on his right wrist. (Hodinkee)

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Rolex Datejust 16233

Worn by Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna. Hanna's two-tone Datejust works as both a badge of power and a trust-building disguise. Spotting analyses converge on the 16233 (36 mm steel case, gold fluted bezel, champagne baton dial, two-tone Jubilee), a reference Rolex introduced in 1988, one year after the 1987 lunch scene it dresses; the near-identical 16013 it replaced would be the period-exact choice. (Italian Watch Spotter; SwissWatchExpo) Montres de Luxe independently identifies a two-tone gold-and-steel Rolex Datejust on Hanna, naming no specific reference. (Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee reads McConaughey's watch as "A two-tone Rolex Datejust (or a very convincing replica)". (Hodinkee) Bob's Watches' list of famous movie watches files Hanna's under "Rolex Datejust 36" while a caption in the same entry reads "Rolex Datejust II ref. 116333", neither of them the 16233 this row asserts; its credit line names only "Rolex Datejust". (Bob's Watches)

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TAG Heuer 1000 Professional 984.013B

Worn by Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. Belfort's gold 1000 Series diver (the gold-plated black-dial reference specialist listings identify as the 984.013), an early-1980s status symbol matching the film's period and chosen, plausibly, for how much it reads like a gold Submariner. Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same TAG Heuer Série 1000 placement, noting the watch is prominently visible on the film's own poster art. (Oracle of Time; Craft + Tailored; Montres de Luxe) Propstore's Wolf of Wall Street online auction (December 2024, winning bid $88,200 including premium) settled the reference: the watch Belfort pulls off and throws to his brokers during the Steve Madden IPO speech was sold as "the only known authentic TAG Heuer 1000 Professional watch supplied to production", with "gold plating, a black face, a metal jubilee bracelet band, and the reference number 984.013B", and the essay adds that DiCaprio, as a TAG Heuer ambassador, arranged for the watches to be supplied. The 984.013B is established by that lot essay and not by the frame, which resolves the gold case and black dial but no reference. (Propstore lot 2) Forumamontres member BLM noted in January 2016 that most viewers wrongly took DiCaprio's watch for a full gold GMT-Master II when it was a TAG Heuer. (Forumamontres) Hodinkee names the gold-plated TAG Heuer 1000 Professional on a jubilee bracelet, often mistaken for a gold GMT-Master, and times it at 01:05:28 on the golf course as Brad hands Belfort a duffel bag of cash. Griffon told the column how the watches arrived after DiCaprio called TAG Heuer, "One day a black town car showed up, a nice lady came out and handed me a bag full of watches", and that they sat in his prop-trailer safe for nearly a year until Paramount needed them for photo shoots. (Hodinkee)

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TAG Heuer 2000 Exclusive WN5141

Worn by Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. Belfort's second TAG Heuer arrives with his peak: the solid 18k gold 2000 Exclusive with baguette-diamond bezel and markers, on his wrist through the third act and clearest in the yacht confrontation with Agent Denham. The real Belfort wrote that he wore a thin gold Bulgari on the day of the Steve Madden IPO; the film swaps in a diamond-set TAG Heuer instead. (Italian Watch Spotter; Oracle of Time) Hodinkee describes the WN5141 as solid 18k gold with diamonds inlaid in the bezel and a sapphire on the crown, worth about $40,000 according to Griffon, on a bracelet of larger links with a polished centre section, and times it at 02:35:04 as the FBI wires Belfort. (Hodinkee)

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Rolex Daytona 16528

Worn by Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff. Donnie's gold Daytona tracks his money: a yellow-gold Cosmograph on an Oyster bracelet worn through his Stratton Oakmont years. Spotting analyses converge on the 16528, the Zenith-calibre 4030 gold Daytona that Rolex sold from 1988 to 2000 and the period-correct fit for the film's timeline. What sat on the actor's wrist was a prop: Propstore's 2024–25 production auction included both Donnie's alternate and back-up "faux Rolex" watches, acquired by production to resemble the real thing, so the reference reads from the design rather than from an inspectable watch. Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same yellow-gold Rolex Daytona placement, naming no reference. (Propstore; Italian Watch Spotter; Montres de Luxe) Griffon told Hodinkee directly that the Daytona was a replica: "According to Griffon, those people would be wrong." (Hodinkee)

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Rolex Day-Date

Worn by P. J. Byrne as Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff. Koskoff backs Belfort's Steve Madden IPO pitch with a yellow-gold President-style Day-Date on his wrist, the day-and-date Rolex that stood for executive arrival at exactly the moment Stratton Oakmont was selling arrival it had not earned. The screen-worn item made the metaphor literal: Propstore's production auction sold Byrne's screen-worn rimless glasses, wedding band, and "Faux Rolex Day-Date Watch" as a single lot, so the fastest talker in the room wears a counterfeit of the executive's watch. The faux prop resolves no reference; its champagne-dial yellow-gold President design would, in the film's early-1990s setting, be the double-quickset 18238, while the 118238 that watchreel names did not enter the catalog until 2000. (Propstore lot 134)

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Rolex Submariner

Worn by Kenneth Choi as Chester Ming. Chester Ming's party watch is a yellow-gold sports Rolex on an Oyster bracelet, read by watchreel as the solid-gold Submariner, which would make it the one watch in Belfort's circle rated to 300 m of water it would never see. The available frame supports the gold case and bracelet but leaves bezel and dial illegible, so the Submariner remains a likely rather than confirmed identification and no reference is resolvable. (watchreel) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same yellow-gold Rolex Submariner on Ming, without naming a reference. (Montres de Luxe)

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IWC Big Pilot's Watch

Worn by Ethan Suplee as Toby Welch. The counterpoint wrist in a gold-Rolex office: Toby Welch wears a large steel pilot's watch on a leather strap, identified by watchreel as the Big Pilot's Watch (the 46 mm descendant of IWC's 1940 Grosse Fliegeruhr, with the seven-day power reserve of calibre 5011), and SwissWatchExpo likewise notes IWC Big Pilots among the film's supporting cast. If it is the modern Big Pilot, it is one of the film's quieter anachronisms: IWC introduced the reference 5002 in 2002, years after the film's 1987–1990s events. The frame shows the black dial, white markers, and strap but not the power-reserve layout that would settle the reference. (SwissWatchExpo)

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Cartier Tank Francaise

Worn by Brian Sacca as Robbie Feinberg. Montres de Luxe identifies Feinberg's watch as a steel Cartier Tank Française on a steel bracelet, naming no reference. (Montres de Luxe)

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