The Irishman (2019)

The Irishman

Martin Scorsese's late-career crime epic, adapting Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses. Truck driver turned hitman Frank Sheeran narrates decades of work for the Bufalino family and his bond with Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. (IMDb)

Watches

Mathey-Tissot Gold Dress Watch

Worn by Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran. Hoffa presents Sheeran with a flashy gold Mathey-Tissot dress watch (a rectangular gem-set bezel over a gold dial on a matching gold bracelet) as a token of standing within the organization, and it recurs across the film's middle stretch. The identification is to the brand, reported consistently by watch press and acknowledged by Mathey-Tissot itself; no legible reference is established, and it is a vintage 14k-gold piece rather than a current model. No clean watch-visible frame from the film could be sourced for this row. (Oracle of Time; Life on the Wrist) Montres de Luxe independently corroborates the Mathey-Tissot identification, describing the same yellow-gold, diamond-set watch given to Sheeran at a jubilee celebration and noting the brand's period fit for a film set in 1960s America. (Montres de Luxe) Hodinkee's watch-spotting report describes the rectangular gold watch with a gem-set bezel and a dial that appears signed Mathey-Tissot, presented by Hoffa at the union banquet. (Hodinkee) Time+Tide corroborates the maker: "De Niro wore a Mathey-Tissot with a gem-set bezel when he played Frank Sheeran in The Irishman." (Time+Tide) Sports Hankook's watch column of 3 December 2019 reached the same maker independently in the week of the Netflix release: it follows the gold Mathey-Tissot from the early scene in which Sheeran picks it up from a table to the moment he checks it before leaving the car on a job, and it adds that the brand has no connection with Tissot. It names no model. (Sports Hankook)

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Bulova President

Worn by Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran. The watch Sheeran wears across the film's 1960s stretch, before Hoffa's gold Mathey-Tissot arrives: a rectangular gold tank with a rose-coloured dial on a black textured leather strap, sitting on a man who is still a union official rather than a made figure. Bulova numbered nothing in the President line, so the watch is placed by case shape, dial colour and period against the model's 1940s executions rather than by a reference. (BAMF Style)

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Hamilton (unidentified model)

Worn by Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa. BAMF Style hedges Hoffa's gold presentation watch as most likely a Hamilton, guessing at either a 1972 Dateline A-593 or a 1973 Auto Date Buccaneer. (BAMF Style) Montres de Luxe instead identifies the same gold-plated, cushion-cased watch as a Helbros with a logo on the dial, also noting the brand's period fit for the film's 1960s American setting; the two sources disagree on the maker and neither cites a resolvable reference. (Montres de Luxe)

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Rolex (unidentified model)

Worn by Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran. Costume designer Christopher Peterson told Vulture that Frank's jewellery tracks his rise: at the start "he wears only a simple, leather-band tank watch and a ring with the four birthstones of his daughters", and then, "as he became a leader of one of the Teamsters, he got the Rolex that actually on the face of it has the Teamster logo. It was a thing", before Hoffa's gift of the gold watch already catalogued here. Only the maker is named, with no model, reference or scene, so the maker-level page is linked; the unbranded early tank watch is recorded here, not as a row. (Vulture)

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