Lupin the Third Part II (1977)
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The red-jacket Lupin: the second and longest-running television series, 155 episodes produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and aired on Nippon Television from October 1977 to October 1980. Yasuo Yamada again voices the master thief alongside Kiyoshi Kobayashi's Jigen, Makio Inoue's Goemon, Eiko Masuyama's Fujiko and Gorō Naya's Zenigata; the series' freewheeling caper-of-the-week format made it the franchise's defining international export, and its gadget-happy props gave Lupin some of anime's earliest loving depictions of period watches. (IMDb, Wikipedia)
Watches
- Omega Chrono-Quartz
- In the two-part 007 homage "The Lupin Who Loved Me" (episodes 50-51), Lupin's wrist carries an Omega Chrono-Quartz, the 1976 Montreal Olympics hybrid, drawn with its unmistakable twin analog-digital layout and dial text legible as CHRONO-QUARTZ (frames at 05:23 and 05:11 of the respective parts). The fiction adds gadget functions the real watch never had, a communicator line to Jigen and a tracker following Fujiko's beacon, a classic Lupin move of layering spy hardware on a real period reference. Two independent Japanese analyses converge on the model, one of them the timestamped frame study cited here. (UT Design, 1016watch-style)
- Girard-Perregaux (unidentified model)
- In episode 4, "I Can Hear Nessie's Song" ("ネッシーの唄が聞こえる"), Lupin's wrist carries a green/silver wedge-cased LED digital, its horizontal window reading "10 15" at about 8:10 as it ejects a strip of microfilm, a fictional gadget function laid over a real design idiom, this series' habit. A Japanese design analysis reads the case proportions as a Girard-Perregaux LED digital and explicitly prefers it over the visually similar Amida Digitrend, on the blinking digital seconds and the Digitrend's own obscurity. That is a single source at brand level, probable rather than confirmed, because no branding is legible on the cel; the frame comes from the rights holder's own upload. (UT Design, YouTube)
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- Rolex Submariner 1680
- In episode 153, "God's Bundle of Bills" ("神様のくれた札束"), Jigen's wrist carries a date-window Submariner with ROLEX legible on the dial, drawn with an unusually thin bracelet and a reddish tint to the bezel insert that a Japanese watch-identification blog reads as a nod to the "red Sub" era, dating the reference to the first-generation Submariner Date, the Rolex Submariner 1680. No source claims a confirmed reference number beyond that era placement. (1016watch-style)Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!
- Zenith Chronomaster
- The same survey also credits Jigen with an A384-derived Zenith chronograph on a metal bracelet, its angular case reproducing the real El Primero A384's lines, plus a second episode's dial where "ZENITH" is legible only on close inspection. The source names no specific episode for either drawing, but its own closing summary places every anime-era Jigen watch it surveys within this second television series' 1977-1980 run, distinguishing this sighting from the separately cataloged A384-derived chronograph drawn on Jigen in the original 1971 series. This fictional design predates Zenith's real Chronomaster nameplate, introduced in 1994, by nearly two decades. (1016watch-style)Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!
- Omega Speedmaster Mark III 176.002
- The same survey credits Jigen with an Omega Speedmaster Mark III, read from the drawn date-window position and Ω logo placement; the source calls the identification unambiguous on those cues. It names no specific episode, but its closing summary places every anime-era Jigen watch it covers within this second television series' 1977-1980 run. The anime rendering shows a flatter case than the real Mark III's domed "volcano" profile, and no source resolves which of the reference's three dial colors is drawn. (1016watch-style)Scene image neededSubmit a scene still!