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From Game Screen to Wrist: Watches You Could Actually Buy

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Design history
MSTR put a Seiko quartz movement inside Joel's watch. Hamilton built Neil's Death Stranding 2 watch with seven sapphire windows. Both designs had to accommodate a working movement, though their game counterparts could run on fiction.

Dani holds a telephone with a round field watch on a brown strap visible at the wrist.

Dani Rojas wears the Hamilton in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 collaboration image.

These three watches were released as physical counterparts to objects worn in games. Availability has changed since their launches.

Joel's watch becomes a quartz replica

MSTR's Joel's Watch reproduces the field-watch design from The Last of Us. The maker documents a collaboration with Naughty Dog and PlayStation, limited to 1,000 pieces. A 41 mm case and olive nylon strap carry the visible design into a wearable product, while a battery-powered Seiko movement supplies actual timekeeping. (MSTR)

MSTR’s quartz movement belongs to the replica. The game never needs to explain what powers Joel’s watch; the manufacturer had to put something under the dial.

The Lüm-Tec Super Combat B2 enters the story from the other direction. GQ discusses it as a close source for the game's original design. It is not the licensed MSTR replica, and buying a similar Lüm-Tec would be a different kind of connection to Joel's watch. (GQ)

Silver-colored watch with a black numeral dial, red small-seconds hand and olive nylon strap.

MSTR’s licensed replica reproduces the field-watch layout and olive strap with a working quartz movement.

Dark Lüm-Tec watch on black leather, with large numerals, a ridged bezel and small seconds at six.

The original small-seconds Super Combat B2, shown on leather in a Sutor House photograph. A design comparison, not an exact identification of Joel’s watch.

Far Cry's field watch shares a launch

The Hamilton Khaki Field Titanium Far Cry 6 H70645533 accompanied Far Cry 6 in 2021. Hamilton specified a run of 1,983, tied to the watch's fictional history in Yara. Its announcement explicitly addresses the object in the game and the physical watch offered alongside it. (Swatch Group)

The retail reference uses a 42 mm titanium case and H-10 automatic movement. Its split numeral 6 gives the familiar field dial a small, game-specific alteration. Those details make the edition distinguishable from a generic Khaki Field, even without the packaging. (Hamilton's product record)

Dani Rojas’s in-game Hamilton also grants an equipment bonus. The physical edition carries over the design, including that split 6; the bonus stays in Yara.

A black-dial Hamilton field watch with a red seconds hand, split 6 and brown leather strap.

The physical H70645533, with the split numeral 6. Hamilton product image.

Neil's Boulton requires seven crystals

For Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kojima Productions identifies the Hamilton Boulton H13605130 as a watch modeled on Neil's in-game timepiece. The unusual case carries a main sapphire window and three smaller windows on each side. The developer credits Yoji Shinkawa's involvement and documents the black PVD titanium construction. (Kojima Productions)

The seven windows shape the entire case, letting the dial be seen through its sides as well as its face. Hamilton's specification pairs the multi-window case with an H-10 automatic movement and a matching titanium bracelet. The familiar Boulton name covers a substantially different exterior here. (Hamilton)

Close view of a black Hamilton watch with an orange seconds hand and separate crystal windows.

The Boulton in Hamilton’s official Death Stranding 2 collaboration film; this is campaign imagery of the physical watch.

Black Hamilton Boulton with an orange seconds hand, central crystal and six narrow side windows.

Hamilton’s production H13605130 and matching black bracelet.

The longer sequence of Kojima's watch collaborations belongs to Kojima’s Watches: From Metal Gear to Death Stranding.

Browse the catalog: Watches in video games.

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