Arifin Putra wears a Hamilton Jazzmaster

Uco wants more than his father will give him. Arifin Putra plays him in The Raid 2 as the heir to the Bangun crime family, a sharp-dressed young man who has spent his life waiting for a power that keeps not arriving, and who decides to take it by force. He is the closest thing the film has to a tragic figure, a son who would rather burn the family down than keep waiting his turn.

His watch is a Hamilton Jazzmaster Viewmatic, the dressiest of the four Hamiltons in the movie. Where Rama, the undercover cop, wears a sporty Pan Europ chronograph, Uco wears the cleaner Jazzmaster, an automatic with a simple dial and an exhibition caseback, the watch of a man who wants to look like an executive rather than a fighter. Worn & Wound's survey of Hamilton's films catalogues it on him.

It is there because of a deal. Time International, Hamilton's distributor in Indonesia, equipped the cast of The Raid 2, which is why a brutal Indonesian action movie is quietly full of Swiss watches. Uco, the one who most wants to be taken seriously, ends up with the most serious-looking one.