Al Pacino wears an unidentified watch

Al Pacino was in a slump before Sea of Love. He hadn't had a hit since Scarface in 1983, and the mid-eighties were a desert: Revolution (1985) was such a disaster that he didn't make another film for four years. Harold Becker's 1989 thriller brought him back as Frank Keller, a New York detective investigating murders connected to personal ads in the newspaper. Keller is tired and lonely, recently divorced, drinking too much, and old enough to know that falling for a suspect is a bad idea. He does it anyway. Ellen Barkin plays the woman, and the chemistry between them is the reason the film works.

His watch has not been identified. A late-1980s NYPD detective would likely be wearing something practical and inexpensive (a Seiko quartz, a Citizen, maybe something inherited). Keller is not a man who shops for watches. He is a man who still has the same one he bought ten years ago.