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Watches in Movies: Apollo 13, The Bone Collector, Casino Royale, Constantine and Elizabethtown.

Apollo 13 (1995)

The film Apollo 13 was based on the real events of the worst NASA’s tragedy. Back in 1971 when NASA planed to send out people to the Moon for a lunar mission, they had chosen astronauts Jim Lovell, Frad Haise and Jack Swigert. Even they launched into outer space successfully; a slight fault from inside space module caused an explosion that turned the exploration into a survival test the whole crew of Apollo 13. While Loveel, Haise, and Swigert were trying to survive in space, the workers at NASA were trying to figure out a way of getting the astronauts home safely.

Many Omega Speedmaster watches are seen during this movie as many of the characters wore one, including Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon).




The Bone Collector (1999)

Quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some psycho was kidnapping people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly atrocious ways.

The chosen brand this time was TAG Heuer, the Kirium model. Detective Paulie Sellitto (Ed O’Neil) wore a TAG Heuer Kirium quartz watch.





Casino Royale (2006)

James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists that is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

James Bond wears an Omega Seamaster Professional Watch and, after achieving "00" status, Bond switched to the blue-dialled Seamaster Professional.




Constantine (2005)

John Constantine is the exorcist who has been to Hell and back and whose soul was sentenced to hell. After the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, detective Angela Dodson goes out in search of the truth. Together, Constantine and Angela battle the demons on Earth.

Constantine wore an Oris Modern Classic Watch















Elizabethtown (2005)

After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) wears a Panerai 1950.













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