Alain Delon wears an Enicar Sherpa Ultradive

Dino Barran cracks a safe the way a doctor would, with a listening device pressed to the steel. In Jean Herman's Farewell, Friend (Adieu l'ami, 1968), Alain Delon plays a Foreign Legion doctor back from Algeria who agrees to return stolen bonds to a Paris company safe over Christmas, while the staff is out celebrating and the building is sealed. Charles Bronson's Franz Propp forces his way into the job hoping to empty the safe instead, and when it finally opens it holds nothing at all, a security guard is dead, and both men understand they have been set up. The film mattered most for Bronson: it made him a leading man in Europe after years of Hollywood supporting parts, and America would not see it for another five years.

The watch on Delon's left wrist is his own Enicar Sherpa Ultradive, the one he wore off screen as well. BAMF Style identifies it in detail: a 40mm steel case with crowns at 2 and 4 o'clock, a black dial with luminous baton markers and a date at 3, a flat steel bracelet, and the Super Compressor name referring to a patented O-ring seal good to 200 meters. In the safe-cracking scene the camera holds the watch right beside Barran's listening gear, both crowns plainly visible. One piece of the lore has to go, though. BAMF suggests Delon may have picked the watch up during his Navy service in the 1950s, and the calendar refuses: Enicar introduced the Ultradive around 1964 or 1965, nearly a decade after his discharge in 1956. What the dates allow is simpler. He had it by the 1966 filming of Les Aventuriers, where all three male leads wore Ultradives, and collectors know his early example by its double lollipop seconds hand.

He never really took it off, either. The watch stayed with Delon for decades, and when his collection was sold in 2012, this one was not in the catalogue: he had already given it to his son.