The X-Files (1993)

The X-Files

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate the unexplained cases the bureau files away and would rather forget. (IMDb) Created by Chris Carter for Fox, the series ran for nine seasons from 10 September 1993 to 19 May 2002, with David Duchovny as Mulder, the believer working the X-Files, and Gillian Anderson as Scully, the physician assigned to debunk him. Fox revived it for two further seasons in 2016 and 2018, bringing both leads back alongside Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Bulova 96B169

Worn by David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. Duchovny wears the Bulova in the 2016 revival season rather than in the original run: the 96B169 reference did not exist until 2014. It is a 43 mm stainless steel quartz three-hander with a grey and black dial and a date window, the plainest possible watch for an agent whose interests lie elsewhere. (WatchCharts)

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Omega De Ville Prestige

Worn by David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. Mulder wears a plain steel Omega Quartz De Ville Prestige across much of the original series' back half, after the Victorinox field watches of the earlier seasons. The specialist screen-watch site foxmulderswristwatch.tumblr.com, which catalogs every watch Duchovny wears across the run, lists it as "Watch #9" and documents it in screencaps spanning season 5, episode 20 ("The End," the season finale), season 5, episode 12 ("Bad Blood"), season 6, episode 6 ("How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"), and season 7, episode 22 ("Requiem," the original series' own finale before Duchovny's role became intermittent), among many other episodes across seasons 5 through 7. The model name comes from this specialist catalog. (Fox Mulder's Wristwatch; episode-by-episode screencaps) A second trail comes from Klocksnack, where FrankyFourFingers posted close-ups from season 6, episodes 14 and 15 in July 2016: a steel Omega with a plain grey dial, baton markers and one window at 3 o'clock. In episode 14 the window reads MON, a day wheel fitted to suit the story, where the next episode shows an ordinary date; another member, Oew, took the swap for the sign of a copy, and the two agreed the picture was too soft to say. The scene is the episode 14 close-up. (Klocksnack; Klocksnack; Klocksnack)

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Victorinox Swiss Army Lancer 100

Worn by David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. Mulder wears a black-dial Victorinox Swiss Army Lancer 100 across much of the show's third through fifth seasons, catalogued by foxmulderswristwatch.tumblr.com as "Watch #6" with screencaps tagged to episodes including "Piper Maru" (season 3), "The Field Where I Died," "Never Again," "Unruhe," and "Memento Mori" (season 4), and "Redux II," "Detour," and "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (season 5). Iconic Hours independently identifies the same model, noting Mulder's example appears on a non-standard strap rather than the stock steel bracelet retail photography shows. Neither source narrows the identification to a specific reference number. (Fox Mulder's Wristwatch; Iconic Hours)

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Omega Dynamic Chronograph

Worn by David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. Mulder wears a black-dial Omega Dynamic Chronograph across the show's sixth season, catalogued by foxmulderswristwatch.tumblr.com as "Watch #10" with screencaps tagged to "The Beginning," "Drive," and "Triangle" (season 6, episodes 1 through 3), the last carrying an in-frame timestamp confirming the episode and scene. The tumblr's own text names the movement as "caliber 1139," which does not match any documented Dynamic Chronograph execution; independent specialist coverage (Omega Forums, Teddy Baldassarre) and retailer listings for this reference converge on calibre 1138, treated here as the correct movement rather than the source's own typo. No independent screen-watch source corroborates the sighting itself. (Fox Mulder's Wristwatch; Teddy Baldassarre)

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