Arnold Schwarzenegger wears an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore

Gordy Brewer is a Los Angeles firefighter, not a watch collector, but Andrew Davis put an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore on Arnold Schwarzenegger's wrist for Collateral Damage. After a terrorist bombing kills his wife and son, Brewer crosses into Colombia to hunt the man who ordered it, and the Offshore stays on through the jungle, the mud, and the river. It is far too much watch for a fireman, which is exactly why it works on Schwarzenegger.

The Royal Oak Offshore is the oversized, sport-hardened descendant of Gerald Genta's 1972 Royal Oak. Audemars Piguet kept the octagonal bezel and its eight exposed screws, then enlarged the case, thickened it, and sealed it against water and shock until a luxury sports watch read as something closer to tactical equipment. On screen it is a large, light-dialed chronograph, substantial enough to stay legible even when Brewer is covered in dirt. The exact reference cannot be pinned down from the footage.

Schwarzenegger is a genuine Audemars Piguet collector, and the brand eventually built an Arnold Schwarzenegger Royal Oak Offshore around that long association. The watch on Brewer is not a random prop. It is the kind of watch the man wearing it actually owns, which is why it looks natural on him even when the character never would.