Amanda Peet wears an unidentified watch

In the still Jill St. Claire stands between Matthew Perry's Oz and Bruce Willis's Jimmy, and what her pushed-up sleeve exposes is a black sports watch on her left wrist, the dial turned in toward the skin. Amanda Peet plays Jill across The Whole Nine Yards and its 2004 sequel, The Whole Ten Yards: Oz's old dental assistant, who reinvented herself as a contract killer and married the retired hitman now beside her in the straw hat.

The running joke of both films is that Jill is hopeless at the one job she wants. She signs the contract, and the target dies on his own before she can reach him, a heart attack or an accident that gets to the room first. By the sequel she still has not finished a clean kill of her own. The watch suits the ambition more than the record. It is a chunky black resin watch on a ribbed strap, blacked out and built for the kind of abuse the job has never asked of her. The angle gives up no logo, so the brand stays unknown.

The plot moves around her without needing her trigger finger. Oz's pregnant wife has been taken by a Hungarian crime family, and he has come to pull Jimmy back into the trade he quit. Warner Bros. put forty million dollars into the reunion and got back twenty-six. Jill spends the movie married to the genuine article and still waiting for one mark to hold still long enough to let her finish one herself.