Snowfall (2017)

Snowfall

John Singleton, Eric Amadio and Dave Andron's FX crime drama about the start of the crack cocaine epidemic, opening in South Central Los Angeles in the summer of 1983 and following Damson Idris's Franklin Saint from teenage entrepreneur to cocaine kingpin across six seasons (2017–2023). (IMDb)

Watches

Casio A168W-1

Worn by Damson Idris as Franklin Saint. Franklin's watch is the silver-tone Casio A168 (sold in the United States as the A168WA-1), a thin steel-braceleted digital with an electroluminescent backlight, documented on his wrist into the final season (S06E03) and clearly legible in FX's publicity photography. It reads as exactly the watch a sharp South Central teenager would buy with his first spare $25, which is also the problem: the series opens in 1983 and the A168 did not exist until 1995, its EL backlight built on technology Casio only commercialized in the mid-1990s, so the era's most period-plausible-looking watch is a twelve-year anachronism. The costume choice works because Casio's design language barely moved in the interim. (WatchReel, Spotern)

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