Adam Driver wears a Boucheron Épure

House of Gucci opens on a watch. Before the film settles on Maurizio Gucci, Ridley Scott's camera finds the gold dress watch on his wrist, set on a dark brown leather strap, and it is a Boucheron Épure. Hodinkee's Danny Milton, who covered the film for the magazine's Watching Movies column, reads that opening as a quiet piece of foreshadowing: the first watch we see belongs to the man whose murder the story will end with.

Adam Driver's Maurizio wears two gold watches across the film, and the Boucheron is the easy one to miss. The close-ups go to a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso; the Boucheron gets the first frame and little after. It is an unusual pick. Boucheron is a Paris jeweler from the Place Vendôme, not principally a watch house, and the Épure is its line of thin round dress watches: a 42 millimeter pink gold case, a white sector dial, and the blue sapphire cabochon that Boucheron sets into its crowns.

It is also, like nearly every watch in House of Gucci, wrong for the period. The film runs from the 1970s into the 1990s, but the Épure was not introduced until 2013, dressed to look right rather than to match the dates. The real Maurizio Gucci was shot outside his Milan office in March 1995, at the age of 46. The watch that opens his story is one he could never have worn.