Andy Lau wears a Rolex Day-Date

Hong Kong gambling films were their own ecosystem at the turn of the 1990s, and Wong Jing's God of Gamblers II (1990) sits near the center of it. Andy Lau plays Michael, a disciple of the legendary gambler Ko Chun, who teams with Stephen Chow's Sing to defend their master's reputation against a crime boss bent on destroying it. The film swings from slapstick to martial arts to card-table showdown and back, the kind of tonal whiplash Hong Kong cinema handled better than anyone.

Lau's character has been identified as wearing a yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date, the gold-and-platinum-only model Rolex introduced in 1956 and a familiar shorthand for success across 1980s and 1990s Asia. The identification rests on a single enthusiast source, others have suggested a Cyma homage of the same design, and the watch is not clear in the available stills, so the model stays unconfirmed.