Al Pacino wears an unidentified watch

Lowell Bergman believed in journalism more than his network did, and that is what the film is about. Al Pacino plays the 60 Minutes producer who convinced tobacco executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to go on the record about what the industry knew and suppressed. Michael Mann directed The Insider (1999) as a corporate thriller where the enemy is not a person but an institution: CBS, which caved to legal threats from Brown and Williamson and nearly killed the story.

Pacino plays Bergman with controlled fury. He is the guy who makes promises to sources and then has to watch his own network break them. The watch he wears has not been identified, but Bergman is the kind of character who would wear something functional and unnoticed. A producer working phones and flying between New York and Mississippi does not think about his wrist. This is a man who dresses for credibility, not attention, and his watch would do the same.