Cast Away (2000)

Cast Away

Robert Zemeckis's 2000 survival drama strands FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland, played by Tom Hanks, on an uninhabited Pacific island for four years after a cargo-plane crash, with Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears, the girlfriend whose photograph he keeps in the pocket watch she gave him. 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks released it in December 2000. (IMDb)

Watches

Elgin watch

Worn by Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland. The watch is a production-made prop rather than a factory Elgin: Propstore's Los Angeles 2022 live auction (June 2022, lot 97) sold it as "designed to resemble an authentic vintage Elgin pocket watch", with "a faux gold case engraved with floral patterns", a ridged faux-silver crown and "a crystal-plated face labeled Elgin" opposite the photograph of Kelly Frears that Chuck carries through the film; it runs on a battery, and production tarnished and discoloured it to read as aged and water-damaged. Propstore's London 2022 sale (November 2022, lot 102) of the same prop, worn as a necklace with a faux tooth on the raft, describes a watch that no longer opens. Elgin is the design basis the prop copies, not a placement, and the prop names no Elgin model. (Propstore lot 97; Propstore lot 102)

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Casio G-Shock DW-5600

Worn by Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland. Before the crash Chuck wears a square digital G-Shock, which he takes off to wash his hands on the cargo plane shortly before it goes down. On the Russian forum Watch.ru's "Casio in films" thread, in May 2013 VovCHE posted an image of Hanks in the film wearing what he read as a DW-5600, if his eyesight served him, and in June 2013 collagen recalled the scene in which Chuck removes it to wash his hands, as if it were not a waterproof G-Shock; on the Czech forum Chronomag in November 2016 Povidláček described the same scene, with Hanks briefly wearing a square G-Shock that he takes off in the plane just before the crash. Three members agree on a square G-Shock; DW-5600 is one member's tentative reading, and no frame posted resolves the execution. (Watch.ru archive, posts by VovCHE and collagen; Chronomag)

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