Caster (2025)

Caster

Caster (キャスター) is a 2025 Japanese television drama that aired in TBS's Sunday Theater (日曜劇場) slot from April 13, 2025, across ten episodes. Hiroshi Abe stars as Shindo Souichi, a public-broadcaster social-affairs reporter of fifteen years who is recruited by commercial network JBN to anchor its struggling news program "News Gate," working alongside producer Hana Sakikubo (Mei Nagano) and assistant director Yusuke Motohashi (Shuntaro Michieda) to chase stories the station would rather bury. Netflix and other international listings carry the series as News Anchor. (IMDb; Netflix)

Watches

Bvlgari Octo Finissimo

Worn by Hiroshi Abe as Shindo Souichi. Two Japanese watch-spotting blogs, Arekiru (drama-tv-fashion.com) and Goldenfishz (goldenfishz.com), unhedgedly identify a titanium Bvlgari Octo Finissimo worn by Shindo across nearly the entire run, cited from the newsroom-rehearsal scenes of episode 1 through episode 9; neither names a specific reference. A third blog, cowtotai, independently reaches the same brand and model for the episode 1 newsroom scene but hedges its call as "highly likely" (である可能性が高いです) rather than asserting it outright. (Arekiru; Goldenfishz; cowtotai)

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Otsuka Lotec No. 7.5

Worn by Hiroshi Abe as Shindo Souichi. Montres de Luxe, writing under the Netflix title News Anchor, names Shindo's watch as an Otsuka Lotec No. 7.5, the Tokyo independent watchmaker's camera-inspired jumping-hour model, without an episode or scene. Its illustration is a TBS still of Abe holding a microphone in which no watch is visible. The three Japanese sources above name the Bvlgari Octo Finissimo for episodes 1 to 9, and the catalog's frame shows that watch, so this sighting rests on Montres de Luxe alone. (Montres de Luxe)

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TAG Heuer Carrera CBS2210.FC6534

Worn by Reo Tamaoki as Kodai Kajiwara. Konta Watch Blog identifies the watch on Kodai Kajiwara, the production-company employee promoted to chief director of "News Gate", as a 39 mm TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph "Glassbox" with the TH20-00 movement, Ref. CBS2210.FC6534. Its frame shows a black-dial chronograph with pale sub-counters on a black leather strap as he writes on the newsroom whiteboard; the reference rests on the blog alone. (Konta Watch Blog)

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Century Prime Time 606.7.S.A1.13.15D.QZN

Worn by Kanato Tsukishiro as Nami Koike. Konta Watch Blog identifies the watch on Nami Koike, the JBN announcer who sits beside Shindo as "News Gate"'s sub-anchor, as a 24 mm Century Prime Time with a mother-of-pearl dial, Ref. 606.7.S.A1.13.15D.QZN. Its frame shows a small watch on a white strap at her wrist as she touches her shoulder in a lilac jacket, consistent with the reference's white rubber strap; the reference rests on the blog alone. (Konta Watch Blog)

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