The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

This is the 1968 film. For the 1999 remake, see The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

The Thomas Crown Affair

Norman Jewison's original heist drama, starring Steve McQueen as a bored Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank robbery for the sport of it and Faye Dunaway as the insurance investigator sent to catch him. (IMDb)

Watches

Cartier Tank

Worn by Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown. Crown wears a curved rectangular Cartier Tank to dinner with Vicki Anderson, the camera catching the case arching hard against the wrist. The exact model has been argued for decades: most coverage calls it a Tank Cintrée (The Rake), while specialist analyses identify the rarer, more dramatically elongated Tank Allongée (ref. 21612) sold only through Cartier New York (Perpetual Passion). The frame does not resolve the case profile, so this is filed at family level. (watchreel) Montres de Luxe adds a third voice to the debate, naming the piece a Tank Cintrée in white gold; the case-profile disagreement with Perpetual Passion's Tank Allongée reading stands unresolved. (Montres de Luxe)

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox

Worn by Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown. For the afternoon scenes McQueen wears a gold Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox, the mechanical alarm watch JLC introduced in 1951, its second crown winding a separate barrel that sounds a chime against a rotating inner bezel. Accounts hold that this was McQueen's own watch rather than a production placement, worn to set and kept on camera (Revolution); it is probably the automatic E855 reference in gold. (watchreel) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the watch as a gold Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox. (Montres de Luxe)

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Patek Philippe watch

Worn by Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown. BAMF Style notes that in the opening sequence, before switching to the wristwatches he wears for the rest of the film, Crown carries a gold Patek Philippe pocket watch. (BAMF Style)

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