Barry Keoghan wears a Casio A163WA

Oliver Quick arrives at Oxford as the scholarship case nobody invites anywhere, and tells the beautiful Felix Catton a story: a dead father, an addict mother, a childhood in chaos. Felix brings him home to Saltburn for the summer. The story is a lie, all of it; his father is alive and neither parent ever had the troubles he described. Emerald Fennell, who wrote, directed, and produced the film for a November 2023 release through Amazon MGM, spends the second half unwinding what the lie was for: Felix dies mysteriously, the family follows, and Oliver finishes the picture dancing naked through a mansion he inherited by comforting its grieving owner and then switching off her life support.

The watch on his wrist is a Casio, and even the identification has a small plot. G-Central, the Casio specialist site, first took it for the common A168, then studied the closer shots: the shape of the display and two blue spots gave it away as the A163WA, most likely the A163WA-1Q, chrome-plated resin under a raised and beveled crystal, stainless band, stopwatch, alarm, auto-calendar, a battery good for about seven years. British GQ covered the same watch and called it an A164, wrongly. In the sunbathing close-up the blue-rimmed display sits in plain view beside his chain. The best line belongs to the production itself: the film's prop master, Phil Smith, told GQ that the Casio is functional, precise and accurate, and that for such a calculated and focused character like Oliver, this is perfect.

So the wardrobe knew what the script was hiding: the cheap watch was never the truth about Oliver, it was an instrument, chosen the way he chooses everything. Worn and Wound noted the epilogue: by the end of the film, the newly rich Oliver has traded the Casio for a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. The film took 21.1 million dollars, modest against the conversation it generated, and drew two Golden Globe nominations and five at BAFTA, with the praise concentrated on Keoghan and Rosamund Pike.