Al Pacino wears an unidentified watch

Outdoors among the trees, in dark aviator sunglasses and a navy suit, Michael Corleone pulls a man in grey into an embrace, and as his sleeve rides up a watch catches the light at the cuff: a small yellow-gold case, a pale dial, a dark leather strap. It is the quiet kind of watch a careful man wears half under his jacket, never meant to be seen.

By The Godfather Part III, Francis Ford Coppola's 1990 return to the saga, Michael is older, richer, and trying to buy the family's way into respectability through the Vatican. The wardrobe follows the ambition. He dresses like a financier rather than a don now, and the watch suits the costume, understated and gold, on a strap rather than a bracelet, a thin dress piece with no logo the camera can find. Across the trilogy Michael's watch grows quieter as his grip on the family curdles, until by Part III it is an anonymous gold dress watch, plainly worn and impossible to name, on a man buying a respectability he can no longer feel.