Blue Velvet (1986)

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet is David Lynch's 1986 mystery thriller in which college student Jeffrey Beaumont, having found a severed ear in a field in his quiet hometown, is pulled into a violent criminal underworld hidden beneath its surface. (IMDb)

Watches

Hamilton Ventura

Worn by Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont. Jeffrey wears a vintage Hamilton electric watch with the brand's asymmetric Space-Age case: the gold, angular design Hamilton launched in 1957 with the Cal. 500 battery movement, the world's first electric wristwatch. Which model is contested: the menswear specialist BAMF Style reads it as a Ventura from direct examination of the film, while WatchReel and others propose the rarer, shield-cased Altair of 1961; the diner frame shows an asymmetric gold electric but does not resolve the dial and case cleanly enough to settle it, so the record stays at the Hamilton electric asymmetric line, linked here to the Ventura as the better-documented candidate. The period optimism the design embodies plays against the rot Jeffrey uncovers. (WatchReel; BAMF Style)

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