Aleksandr Baluev wears an unidentified watch

Aleksandr Baluev's wrist gives the clearest watch shot among the Deep Impact astronauts. As Mikhail Tulchinsky, the Russian cosmonaut on the joint American-Russian Messiah crew, he wears a large black-dialed watch with a steel bracelet — visible in close-up as he works inside the spacecraft. It looks like a dive or pilot's watch with a thick bezel. Russian cosmonauts historically wore Poljot and Vostok timepieces with actual spaceflight heritage, but whether the props department honored that tradition here is unclear. The brand has not been identified.