The Big Short (2015)

The Big Short

The Big Short is a satirical drama about investors who foresee and profit from the United States housing-market collapse. (IMDb) Adam McKay directed and co-wrote the film with Charles Randolph, adapting Michael Lewis's 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine for a wide United States release on 23 December 2015. Christian Bale plays hedge-fund manager Michael Burry, with Steve Carell as Mark Baum, Ryan Gosling as bond salesman Jared Vennett and Brad Pitt as retired trader Ben Rickert; McKay and Randolph won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay from five nominations. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Rolex Submariner 116610LN

Worn by Steve Carell as Mark Baum. HODINKEE identifies Mark Baum's black Rolex Submariner Date as reference 116610LN. (HODINKEE; Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee's own wording is hedged, "what appears to be the reference 116610LN", a 40 mm watch with the super case, ceramic bezel and Glidelock clasp introduced in 2010, which it calls a goof against the film's setting and guesses, without a prop-master confirmation, may have been Carell's personal watch; it times the crossed-arms reveal at 01:06:35 as Baum asks the S&P employee "Are you four?" and a close-up at 01:43:54 with his hands against his face, and credits props to Mychael Bates. (Hodinkee)

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IWC Portugieser Chronograph

Worn by Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett. Vennett's dress watch through his direct-to-camera narration and pitch scenes (shown here in a production publicity still) is a black-dial IWC Portugieser Chronograph on a black strap. Vennett is a Deutsche Bank trader modeled on Greg Lippmann. The 2015 shoot puts the watch in the 40.9 mm ref. 3714 generation with IWC's Valjoux-based calibre 79350; the ref. IW371609 named in spotting coverage belongs to the in-house 3716 line IWC introduced in 2020 and cannot be the production watch, and the frames leave the exact black-dial 3714 sub-reference unresolved. (Oracle of Time; IWC)

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Casio G-Shock GW-2310-1

Worn by Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett. At the gym, taking Vinny Daniel's call confirming the first $50 million of Garibaldi mortgage-bond shorts, Vennett swaps the IWC for a black digital G-Shock. The frame favours Casio's 2300-series case (a bright round metal inner bezel inside the resin shell), and WatchReel names the solar, radio-synced GW-2310-1, a probable rather than confirmed reading: the display detail separating it from the visually near-identical, non-radio G-2310 of 2001 stays out of focus, other spotters read the same wrist as the all-resin G-2900, and a GW-2310-1 would postdate the scene's mid-2000s setting the way Baum's Submariner postdates his. (I Know Watches; G-Central)

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Rolex Oysterquartz Datejust 17000

Worn by Jeremy Strong as Vinny Daniel. Baum's analyst Vinny Daniel works most of his scenes on a phone, and the flat brick-like links of a steel integrated-bracelet Rolex Oysterquartz Datejust read clearly on his wrist as he does: Rolex's angular, temperature-adjusted quartz outlier of 1977, built in an estimated run of under 25,000 across a quarter century. The all-steel execution and the spotting record favour the smooth-bezel ref. 17000, a probable reading at reference level: glare blows out the dial in the clearest frames, so the bezel detail that would exclude the white-gold-fluted 17014 goes unseen. (I Know Watches; Oracle of Time; Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee reads it as "what looks to be a white dial Rolex Datejust Oysterquartz", the one dial reading on record for a dial the frames otherwise blow out. (Hodinkee)

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Rolex (unidentified model)

Worn by Anthony Bourdain as Himself. Probable identification. In his brief cameo making a fish stew, Bourdain wears what Hodinkee reads as "a steel Oyster Perpetual or Air King with a sunray blue dial", a reading the column leaves open with a request for a clearer spot; the frame does not resolve the dial text that would separate the two Rolex models, so the appearance is recorded at maker level. (Hodinkee) Two other sources name a different Rolex: Oracle of Time describes Bourdain "comparing the housing market to a rotten halibut while wearing a lovely stainless steel Rolex Datejust" and says the watch "is actually part of Bourdain's own impressive watch collection", and BeckerTime calls it "Anthony Bourdain's sleek stainless steel Datejust with the blue dial". (Oracle of Time; BeckerTime)

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