House of Cards (2013)

House of Cards

Beau Willimon's Netflix political thriller, the service's first flagship original, starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood, a South Carolina congressman who schemes his way to the presidency, with Robin Wright as Claire Underwood, across six seasons (2013–2018). Corey Stoll appears in the first season as Congressman Peter Russo, and Paul Sparks joins the fourth season as journalist-turned-novelist Tom Yates; Joel Kinnaman plays Governor Will Conway, Underwood's Republican opponent, in the fourth and fifth seasons. (IMDb)

Watches

IWC Portofino Automatic IW356501

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Underwood's dress watch is a steel watch with a silvered dial and black alligator strap, identified by the spotting record as the Portofino Automatic IW356501; the publicity still of Underwood at his desk resolves the layout that supports it (baton indices with Roman numerals at twelve and six, date at three), while the dial text stays out of reach, so the exact reference is likely rather than confirmed. Spacey was an IWC brand ambassador during the show's run, and specialist coverage counts at least five IWC models across Underwood's wardrobe. (Italian Watch Spotter, Grey Market Magazine) Montres de Luxe independently corroborates the breadth of the rotation, describing Spacey as cycling through several distinct IWC models across the series without naming a specific one. (Montres de Luxe) Deployant's survey of Underwood's IWCs captions one of them as a Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days, a different, hand-wound Portofino with an eight-day power reserve, and gives no season or scene, so whether it is a second Portofino or another reading of this one is unresolved. The same article calls Spacey a "friend of the brand" through his own patronage, "rather than being sponsored by" IWC, against the brand-ambassador account above. (Deployant)

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IWC Portugieser Chronograph

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Underwood also wears a steel Portugieser chronograph on a dark strap, worn here with a blue dial whose applied Arabic numerals and vertically stacked registers are visible in the Oval Office frame. The frames support the model but not a sub-reference: specialist coverage places the 40.9mm reference 3714 generation on Underwood, while one spotting source names IW390406, actually the 42mm flyback Portugieser Chronograph Classic in its 2016 Laureus edition of 1,000 pieces, a materially different watch, so only the model is confirmed until a frame resolves the counters. (Italian Watch Spotter, Twenty Two Ten)

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IWC Portuguese 7 Day Power Reserve

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. In season 3's "Chapter 33," BAMF Style identifies a further Underwood IWC as a yellow gold Portuguese 7 Day Power Reserve with a white dial and two white sub-dials, on a dark brown leather strap. (BAMF Style) Deployant's survey of Underwood's IWCs also captions an "IWC Portuguese Automatic", the model name of IWC's self-winding seven-day Portuguese, without a metal or episode. (Deployant) Grey Market Magazine calls the Portugieser Automatic the watch Underwood is "most commonly wearing", but describes it "in a red gold case" on a dark brown alligator strap, against the yellow gold given above; the frames cited do not settle the gold colour. (Grey Market Magazine)

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TAG Heuer Monaco

Worn by Mahershala Ali as Remy Danton. BAMF Style notes that Danton's TAG Heuer Monaco, worn during his lobbyist days, is later replaced by an unbranded stainless watch as his career shifts toward the White House chief of staff role. (BAMF Style) Forumamontres member Nak1oeil reported the Monaco on Danton from the fourth season's fifth episode in March 2016, reading a grey-dial Calibre 11 and noting that it was worn upside down in its first appearance and righted in the next. (Forumamontres)

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IWC Pilot Chronograph

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Deployant's survey of Underwood's IWC rotation names a Pilot's Watch Chronograph; the source gives no reference. (Deployant) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo).

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IWC (unidentified model)

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Grey Market Magazine names a Spitfire Chronograph "Ju Air" Edition, "the sportiest of his watches", with a slate dial in a 43 mm steel case on a steel bracelet. It names no reference, season or scene, so the Spitfire Chronograph line is identified but not the execution. (Grey Market Magazine)

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IWC Da Vinci

Worn by Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. Grey Market Magazine's round-up of Underwood's IWCs names a Da Vinci Automatic as "his only non-round watch": a tonneau-cased steel watch with a silver-plated dial on a black alligator strap. It hedges the execution ("It's hard to tell, but it looks like it could be a big date model") and names no reference, season or scene. (Grey Market Magazine)

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Cartier Tank Louis Cartier XL

Worn by Michel Gill as President Garrett Walker. Deployant identifies Walker's watch for his presidential inauguration as the outsized Cartier Tank Louis Cartier XL, contrasted with the smaller Calibre de Cartier he wears day to day, quoting the source's own framing that "a Tank Louis Cartier XL would be too elegant and refined" for routine business and that "respect is an equal measure of fear and love." The source names no reference. (Deployant) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo).

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Cartier Calibre de Cartier

Worn by Michel Gill as President Garrett Walker. Deployant identifies a Cartier Calibre de Cartier as Walker's watch for daily meetings, distinct from the dressier Tank Louis Cartier XL he wears at his inauguration. The source names no reference and does not confirm the steel case or dial of W7100037; only the Calibre de Cartier model is identified. (Deployant) Shown here in a watch-spotting composite (an authentic scene still beside a product photo).

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Cartier Tank Francaise

Worn by Robin Wright as Claire Underwood. Deployant identifies Claire Underwood's watch as a Cartier Tank Française, describing it as "aesthetically demure, yet a capable counterpart for the woman who can play the hard game without losing her femininity." The source names no reference or size. (Deployant) Montres de Luxe independently corroborates the identification for season 5 (2016), describing the piece as a small, steel, quartz Tank Française; the reference again goes unstated. (Montres de Luxe) GQ España's survey of Cartier on screen corroborates the Tank Française on Claire, naming it beside a Tank Louis. (GQ España)

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Cartier Tank Louis Cartier

Worn by Robin Wright as Claire Underwood. GQ España's survey of Cartier on screen lists "los Tank Française y Tank Louis que embellecían a Claire Underwood (Robin Wright)", a Tank Louis worn beside the Tank Française recorded above. It gives no reference, size, metal, season or episode, and no frame has been matched, so the record sits on the family page. (GQ España)

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Rolex Sea-Dweller

Worn by Corey Stoll as Peter Russo. Deployant identifies Russo's watch as a Rolex Sea-Dweller, "recognisable from the usual Submariner because of the way it dominates his wrist," and names no reference. A reader comment on the same article disputes this identification, with a commenter named Joshua writing "I only watched a couple seasons.... but I only ever saw a speedmaster on Peter Russo's wrist," proposing an Omega Speedmaster instead; this is a single reader's recollection in the comment thread, not an independent second source, and no further evidence has been found to settle the disagreement either way. (Deployant) Montres de Luxe reaches a third identification, calling the watch a stainless steel Rolex Submariner Date and noting it stays clearly visible across many of Russo's season 1 scenes, up to the character's death at the season's close; the site gives no reference and does not address Deployant's Sea-Dweller reading, so the two competitor identifications remain unreconciled. (Montres de Luxe)

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Victorinox Infantry Chronograph

Worn by Paul Sparks as Tom Yates. A reader asked Deployant to identify the watch on Yates's wrist in a very dark season 4 scene, roughly fifteen minutes from the end of episode 10, where Yates holds Claire Underwood's hand after her mother's death; contributor Justin Chong worked from the best video grab the scene allowed and identified it as a Victorinox Infantry Chronograph, now discontinued, giving no reference or dial colour. The source frames the choice as deliberately modest next to the Rolexes, IWCs, and Cartiers worn elsewhere on the show, fitting a writer who, despite his later success, was born into poverty. (Deployant)

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Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph

Worn by Michael Kelly as Doug Stamper. Montres de Luxe identifies Stamper's watch in season 3 as a steel Breitling Navitimer B01 on a leather strap, calling the wristwatch out in a season 3, episode 7 scene. Spotern independently catalogs the same Navitimer B01 sighting for Stamper in that episode. No reference is given. (Montres de Luxe; Spotern) Forumamontres member Akluffy independently reported a Breitling Navitimer on Doug in the third season in March 2015. (Forumamontres)

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Panerai Radiomir

Worn by Joel Kinnaman as Will Conway. In the fifth season (released 30 May 2017) Conway, the Republican governor running against Underwood, wears a dark-dialled watch on a black strap whose cushion case and wire lugs, with no crown-guard bridge, are the Radiomir's. An Uhrforum member watching the new season posted a frame in June 2017 and named a Panerai Radiomir; the frame, a photograph of a screen, shows the case shape and a dark dial with Arabic numerals and bar markers at about 45 px but resolves neither the dial text, the case size nor a reference, so the line is recorded without an execution. (Uhrforum)

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