H. Stern (unidentified model)
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A H. Stern watch named in prose but never narrowed to a model. In Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Patrick Bateman describes wearing "a fourteen-karat gold watch from H.Stern" in place of his Rolex. The text gives a maker and a metal and nothing else: no reference, no case size, no movement, and the novel has no screen adaptation of that passage, so no frame exists to narrow it. The lead image is the house unidentified mark rather than a photograph, because any H. Stern product picture would depict a different watch.
The detail is characteristic of the novel's specificity about watches other than the famous one. Ellis gives this watch a maker and a karat weight while leaving Bateman's Rolex a bare brand name across twenty-six mentions.
Appearances
| Title | Year | Type | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Psycho (1991) | 1991 | Book | Patrick Bateman |