Ben Kingsley wears an unidentified watch

Ben Kingsley plays David Kepesh in Isabel Coixet's Elegy (2008), a Manhattan literature professor and minor public intellectual who pursues a graduate student named Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) into the kind of affair Philip Roth wrote about for fifty years. The film is adapted from Roth's 2001 novella The Dying Animal, with a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer. Kepesh is a man who has built his life around aesthetic appreciation and the avoidance of emotional commitment. Consuela is the woman who finally breaks that arrangement.

Kingsley plays the part in the calm voice of a man who has rehearsed his own seductions in the mirror. The character lectures on poetry, hosts a public radio program, owns a tasteful Upper West Side apartment full of carefully chosen art. The watch on his wrist would belong to the same curated life. Likely a dress watch, slim, restrained, on a leather strap. The kind of thing a literature professor would inherit from his father and wear without thinking about it. The specific reference has not been identified from the screen footage.

If you have access to the film and can read the watch in any of Kepesh's scenes, the database would like to hear about it.