Seven Days in May (1964)

Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May is John Frankenheimer's 1964 political thriller, written by Rod Serling from the Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II novel and released by Paramount on 12 February 1964. Kirk Douglas plays Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey, the Marine aide who uncovers a plot by the Joint Chiefs chairman General James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster) to seize the government after President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) signs a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets; Ava Gardner and Edmond O'Brien co-star. (IMDb) (Wikipedia)

Watches

Bulova Accutron Astronaut

Worn by Kirk Douglas as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey. Casey wears a Bulova Accutron Astronaut, the 1962 tuning-fork pilot's watch with a 24-hour hand, which the film shows in close-up; an apt issue for a Marine colonel at the Pentagon in a thriller set in the then-near future of the early 1970s. Two independent trails agree: a Horlogeforum.nl member posted a frame and a clip of the close-up in 2025, and the 1990s "heliosz" watches-in-movies list, reposted on Relojes Especiales in 2006, had already recorded "a close-up of a Bulova Accutron Astronaut worn by Kirk Douglas". Neither names a case reference, so the row sits on the model line. (Horlogeforum.nl; Relojes Especiales) A third trail: REPISO posted a close-up on Relojes Especiales in December 2013 asking which military watch it was, and Alyazirat and Boctok both answered Bulova Accutron, Boctok noting its GMT function. The scene is REPISO's capture, 484 px wide, the only frame of the close-up found. (Relojes Especiales; Relojes Especiales; Relojes Especiales)

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