Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. (IMDb)

Watches

Casio G-Shock GX56-1B

Worn by Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn. Benji wears the oversized solar G-Shock GX56-1B during the Dubai equipment briefing. Paramount's production still shows the watch on his left wrist while he helps Ethan test the climbing gloves; the broad rectangular bezel and yellow display accents match the identified reference. (AceShowbiz)

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Rolex Submariner Date

Worn by Jeremy Renner as William Brandt. Brandt wears a steel Rolex Submariner Date, identified as the ceramic-bezel reference 116610LN, and it stays on his wrist whether he is in a tailored suit or working clothes. That consistency does some quiet work: he is introduced as a desk analyst, and a watch worn the same way through every change of costume is an early hint that the cover story does not fit. Set against Hunt's Tudor it also draws a neat pecking order between two branches of the same house. Montres de Luxe corroborates the Submariner identification without narrowing the reference. (Bob's Watches; Montres de Luxe)

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Tudor Heritage Chrono

Worn by Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Hunt spends the film in a Tudor Heritage Chrono, the black-dial reissue of the early-1970s Oysterdate chronograph, on a steel bracelet. It is a marked change of register for a character who spent three films in Casios: the first time Hunt's watch reads as something chosen rather than issued. The dial and bracelet are clear enough on screen; the exact case reference is not, so only the model is confirmed, not the reference. (Twenty Two Ten; Rolex Magazine; Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee independently names the black-dial Heritage Chrono as ref. 70330N, notes it reached the set seven months after its Baselworld 2010 debut, and times the sandstorm car crash at 01:21:06 and the watch resting on Hunt's clothes outside the shower at 01:22:54. (Hodinkee) Revolution credits the placement with the model's profile, "Tom Cruise also put the Tudor Heritage Chrono on the map when he wore it" in the film. (Revolution)

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