The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Guy Ritchie's 2024 war picture, adapted from Damien Lewis's Churchill's Secret Warriors, in which the British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II. The story is a heavily fictionalised account of Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive raid of January 1942 that seized an Italian supply ship and two tugboats from the harbour of Spanish-held Fernando Po off West Africa. Henry Cavill leads the unit as Gus March-Phillipps, with Alan Ritchson as the Danish commando Anders Lassen. (IMDb, Wikipedia)

Watches

Antique Field Watch

Worn by Henry Cavill as Gus March-Phillipps. March-Phillipps wears a small antique field watch on a green nylon strap through the raid sequences, a period-correct choice for a 1942 commando. Watch ID reports costume-department information pointing to a vintage Jaeger-LeCoultre from the WWII "Dirty Dozen" service issue, but the frames never resolve the dial or caseback clearly enough to confirm a reference on screen. (Watch ID)

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Services Despatch Rider

Worn by Alan Ritchson as Anders Lassen. Alan Ritchson's Anders Lassen wears an antique Services Despatch Rider, a dual-register dress-military piece carrying a 24-hour Arabic chapter alongside a 12-hour Roman one plus a small seconds subdial. The Services name was applied to watches built in Germany by the Thiel brothers of Thuringia in the 1920s and 1930s, which places the prop a decade or two ahead of the film's 1942 setting. (Watch ID)

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