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Real Watches in Video Games

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Arma 3 gives its soldiers a civilian Fortis diver. Far Cry 6 gives Dani Rojas a Hamilton with a defensive perk. Both draw on real watches, but they reached the player's wrist by different routes.
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A tattooed forearm with a gold-colored bracelet watch and dark dial in Arma 3.

Nikos’s gold-colored watch in Arma 3, identified by designer Karel Mořický as the Police Navy X.

The Fortis B-42 Marinemaster in Arma 3 has an unusually good identification source: a designer naming it. In his July 2024 retrospective, Bohemia Interactive's Karel Mořický identified the model behind the game's wearable watch. He was less certain about why it had been chosen, offering the project's earlier direction as a possible explanation. (Karel Mořický)

The other appearances below come from official collaborations or fictional watches later manufactured for fans.

A Fortis in the equipment list

Mořický describes the series' wristwatches as tools for coordinating operations and tracking timers. The player can consult a timepiece that belongs to the simulated world. Its dive-watch ancestry is almost incidental to that task; a civilian design supplies the instrument used by a virtual soldier. (Mořický's series retrospective)

An Arma 3 coastal landscape with a round black-dial watch displayed at lower right.

The Fortis-derived equipment watch appears over the landscape in Arma 3. Karel Mořický supplied this frame with his retrospective.

Arma 3 also puts a Police Navy X on Nikos and an Alpina Extreme Tourbillon on civilians, according to the same designer. The range is stranger than a uniform selection of military-issued watches. Mořický names the models; he does not claim that their makers licensed the appearances. (Mořický on the character watches)

A steel-colored cushion-case watch with an asymmetric dial on a character’s wrist.

The civilian watch in Mořický’s Arma 3 retrospective uses the Alpina Extreme Tourbillon design.

Hamilton becomes equipment in Far Cry 6

Far Cry 6 has a documented Hamilton partnership. Dani Rojas earns a Hamilton Khaki Field Titanium through a mission, and its in-game effect improves defense while sprinting. Swatch Group's 2021 announcement describes both the equipment function and the real watch made alongside it. (Swatch Group)

The physical counterpart is the H70645533. It shares the game's field-watch design, but the defensive bonus belongs entirely to Ubisoft's equipment system.

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.

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.

Joel’s fictional watch becomes merchandise

Joel's field watch in The Last of Us began in concept art, according to Neil Druckmann's recollection. The team then developed the backstory of Sarah's gift. Its importance grew from that family connection, with the broken watch remaining on Joel's wrist. (Naughty Dog's official podcast)

Joel sits beside Sarah on a dark couch during the game’s opening conversation.

Joel and Sarah in the opening birthday conversation, before she gives him the watch. Frame reproduced by Gram.pl.

A hand holds an olive-strapped watch with large numerals and a shattered crystal.

The watch’s cracked crystal is visible when Ellie holds it in The Last of Us Part II.

A physical version did follow. MSTR's licensed Joel's Watch recreated the fictional object with a quartz movement and olive nylon strap. The replica gives Joel’s familiar design working hands. (MSTR)

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.

A watch designed across both worlds

For Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kojima Productions explicitly identifies Neil as the wearer of the watch translated into the Hamilton Boulton Death Stranding 2. The developer's announcement links the game trailer to the physical design, whose seven sapphire windows make the relationship unusually specific. The surrounding history is developed in Kojima’s Watches: From Metal Gear to Death Stranding. (Kojima Productions)

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

Hamilton’s production H13605130 and matching black bracelet.

Resident Evil Requiem takes the character assignment further. Hamilton names Grace Ashcroft for its Pan Europ H35455730 and Leon S. Kennedy for the Khaki Field Auto Chrono H71636330. Each has a documented game wearer and a corresponding retail reference. (Hamilton: Grace; Hamilton: Leon)

Black-and-gold Hamilton Pan Europ with a rotating bezel, day-date display and leather strap.

Grace’s Pan Europ H35455730, as shown in Hamilton’s product photography.

Black Hamilton chronograph with two registers, a day-date window and a wing across the dial.

Leon’s Khaki Field Auto Chrono H71636330. Hamilton’s product image shows the wing and cartridge-shaped pushers.

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