Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004)

Production I.G's second 26-episode season of Stand Alone Complex, directed by Kenji Kamiyama and broadcast on the pay-per-view channel Perfect Choice (SKY PerfecTV!) from 1 January 2004 to 8 January 2005, follows Major Motoko Kusanagi's Public Security Section 9 through the Individual Eleven terror campaign, the Asian refugee crisis in Dejima and the Cabinet Intelligence Service's Kazundo Gouda, with episodes grouped as Individual, Dividual and Dual stories; Bandai Entertainment and Manga Entertainment released it in North America and Europe. (Wikipedia; Wikipedia: episode list)

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Rolex Daytona: Real-adjacent identification at model level: in episode 14, "Beware the Left Eye – Poker Face" ("左眼に気をつけろ POKER FACE", 3 July 2004), Saito tells the security-detail poker table how he earned his poker face as a mercenary sniper in the 2020 Mexican war, and the flashback gives his wristwatch a full-frame insert as he waits on his perch. The drawing letters the dial ROLEX below 12 o'clock and DAYTONA in red above the 6 o'clock register, and draws an engraved steel tachymeter bezel scaled 60 to 400, a black dial with applied batons, screw-down pushers either side of the crown and an Oyster-style bracelet. The register layout, a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock, a 12-hour counter at 9 and running seconds at 6, is the calibre 4130 arrangement Rolex introduced in 2000, so the design follows the six-digit generation, of which the steel 116520 was the reference on sale when the episode aired; the frame resolves no reference, so the family page is linked. A r/Ghost_in_the_Shell thread names Saito's Daytona and places the full-screen shot in this episode. (r/Ghost_in_the_Shell; Wikipedia: episode list)
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