The American (2010)

The American

Anton Corbijn's 2010 thriller, adapted from Martin Booth's novel A Very Private Gentleman, in which an assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment. George Clooney plays Jack, a gunsmith and killer who flees a job in Sweden and takes the alias Edward in the mountain towns of Abruzzo, building a custom rifle for a client while a local priest and a woman named Clara pull at what is left of his conscience. (IMDb, Wikipedia)

Watches

Casio LTP1165A-1C

Worn by Thekla Reuten as Mathilde. Mathilde, the contact played by Thekla Reuten who commissions the rifle, wears a Casio LTP1165A-1C, a small black-dialled quartz dress watch on a steel bracelet, roughly 32 mm across. (Watch ID)

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Omega Speedmaster Professional

Worn by George Clooney as Jack. Jack wears an Omega Speedmaster Professional on a black leather strap with a deployant clasp, which appears repeatedly in the film. Commentators read the 42 mm steel case and hand-wound chronograph as the previous-generation calibre 1861 reference; Clooney was an Omega ambassador at the time of production. (Worn & Wound) Montres de Luxe likewise describes the watch on a black crocodile-leather strap. (Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee independently reads the previous-generation calibre 1861 Moonwatch on an Omega black leather strap with a deployant, and times the drive to Castelvecchio at 00:13:10 and an extreme close-up of the dial at the park meeting at 00:44:00. (Hodinkee) Forumamontres member watchsilly took the watch for a pilot's chronograph when France 4 showed the film in March 2016, balibalo suggested a Speedmaster, and Aeromariner confirmed a Moonwatch on leather, clearly seen as Jack times the stripping of his modified Ruger. (Forumamontres; Forumamontres; Forumamontres) Worn & Wound's James Enloe, working from the trailer, places the clearest looks "during the scenes where Jack is constructing the weapon he was contracted to build"; Fratello's Speedmaster survey likewise has Clooney, whom it calls "Mr Butterfly", in "an Omega Speedmaster Professional on a leather strap". (Worn & Wound; Fratello)

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