Inception (2010)

Inception

Christopher Nolan's heist thriller set inside dreams. A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO, but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster. (IMDb)

Watches

TAG Heuer Carrera WV211B.BA0787

Worn by Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb. Cobb's automatic Carrera appears from the opening scenes through the film's most punishing environments.

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IWC Pilot Mark XVI

Worn by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur. Arthur, the team's point man, wears a black-dial IWC Mark XVI through the Paris warehouse planning scenes, the 39 mm pilot's watch IWC built from 2006 to 2012, with a soft-iron antimagnetic inner case and the ETA-based calibre 30110 behind a plain instrument dial. On screen it rides a steel multi-link bracelet: factory-bracelet examples carried reference IW325504, while the widely cited IW325501 denotes the same watch on a leather strap, and no frame is sharp enough to settle which execution was used. (WatchReel, I Know Watches, Bernard Watch)

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Caravelle Watch

Worn by Tom Hardy as Eames. A gold-tone watch on a beads-of-rice-style bracelet shows on Eames's left wrist from his Mombasa introduction onward, its small dark-rimmed case worn turned toward the inside of the wrist, an unpretentious piece beside the Carrera and Submariner elsewhere on the team. WatchReel identifies a square-cased vintage Caravelle by Bulova, the parent brand's jeweled budget line; the dial is never legible in available frames, so the Caravelle reading rests on that single spotting claim and stays probable, and other spotting coverage records only an unidentified gold tank-style watch with a dark dial. (WatchReel, I Know Watches)

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Cartier Tank

Worn by Elliot Page as Ariadne. Ariadne (played by Elliot Page, credited as Ellen Page) wears a small square-cased yellow-gold watch on a reddish-brown leather strap on her right wrist, clearest in the Paris bridge mirror scene of her dream training: a Paris-designed dress watch on the architecture student who builds the dream's geometry. Spotting coverage agrees on a Cartier Tank, and WatchReel reads it as a yellow-gold Tank Louis, the 1922 model that fixed Louis Cartier's 1917 design in its classic proportions; the dial never comes close enough to resolve which Tank it is, and the family is as far as the frames reach. (WatchReel, I Know Watches)

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Rolex Submariner

Worn by Ken Watanabe as Saito. Saito's dive watch (steel bracelet, dark timing bezel) is visible as he grapples Cobb in the flooding apartment of the opening extraction, quiet money on the man who hires the team. Spotting communities agree on a Rolex Submariner but split on the reference: WatchReel names the no-date 114060, a reference Rolex only introduced in 2012, two years after the film, while a Watches in Movies contributor reads the two-tone Submariner Date 116613LN. The warm-lit frames resolve neither a date window nor the bezel material, leaving the identification at the family. (WatchReel, Watches in Movies, I Know Watches)

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