Kaiji (1996)
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Kaiji (Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji, 賭博黙示録カイジ), Nobuyuki Fukumoto's gambling-survival manga, was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from March 4, 1996 to 1999, collected across 13 volumes. Itō Kaiji, drifting and in debt, boards the gambling ship Espoir and is drawn into a series of increasingly desperate high-stakes games run by the Teiai conglomerate. (Wikipedia)
Watches
- Breitling Chronomat 13050
- In the E-card showdown against Kaiji, Teiai executive Tonegawa wears his watch on the inside of his wrist so its subdials can secretly display Kaiji's pulse, temperature, and perspiration, fed from an earpiece worn under the guise of the bet; Kaiji realizes the watch itself is the cheating device at the end of ch. 120, and confronts Tonegawa with it in ch. 123, "Undefeated" (不倒). In Breitling's own 2026 brand feature, creator Nobuyuki Fukumoto confirms he modeled Tonegawa's watch on the Chronomat Ref.13050, chosen for a chronograph layout that suited displaying vital signs and a presence that matched Tonegawa's stature; the feature reproduces the chapter 123 panel directly, courtesy of Kodansha. (Kaiji, ch. 120, ch. 123; Breitling)
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