Columbo (1971)

Columbo

Columbo was created by Richard Levinson and William Link. Steven Spielberg directed the 1971 episode "Murder by the Book" from Steven Bochco's script. (Amblin) In the Columbo episode "Murder by the Book," mystery-writing partner Ken Franklin murders his collaborator to keep sole credit and profits for their bestselling detective series, only for Lieutenant Columbo to unravel the scheme. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Cartier Tank

Worn by Jack Cassidy as Ken Franklin. Montres de Luxe identifies Franklin's watch as a yellow-gold Cartier Tank. (Montres de Luxe)

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Seiko 6139

Worn by Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo. Columbo's own watch is a Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph with a blue dial under a blue-and-red tachymeter bezel on a steel bracelet, shown in two frames an Uhrforum member posted in August 2026: one of Falk wearing it, the other an insert close-up of the watch held in his hand with the dial legible. A reply placed the frames in The Most Crucial Game (season 2, first broadcast 5 November 1972) and Candidate for Crime (season 3, 4 November 1973). In Candidate for Crime the watch is a plot device: Columbo produces a Seiko identical to the murdered aide's and knocks it against a table to show the killer, Jackie Cooper's Nelson Hayward, that the victim's stopped watch cannot fix the time of death, a scene the Tokyo dealer Commit Ginza's column on the series also records, naming the watch as the Seiko 5 Speed-Timer 6139-6000. The close-up shows the blue dial, the 30-minute register at 6, the day-date window and the blue-and-red bezel of the export 600x cases; the case-back reference that would separate the 6002 from the 6005, and both from Commit's 6000, is not on screen, so the family is recorded. (Uhrforum; Uhrforum; Commit Ginza; Wikipedia: List of Columbo episodes)

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox

Worn by Jack Cassidy as The Great Santini. In Now You See Him (season 5, episode 5, first broadcast 29 February 1976) Cassidy's magician the Great Santini wears a LeCoultre Memovox, shown in a dial-filling close-up at about 16:45 that an Uhrforum member posted in April 2018: the LeCoultre signature of the US-market Memovox under 12, "Automatic" above 6, dagger indices, and the inner alarm disc with its pointer that only the Memovox carries, in a steel case on a steel bracelet. The member offered the identification tentatively, but the alarm disc settles the family; the automatic marking points to the self-winding calibres of 1956 onward rather than the manual 489, and no reference is legible, so the line is recorded. (Uhrforum; TMDB; Wikipedia: Columbo/Episodenliste)

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