Benicio del Toro wears a Casio G-Shock

I trust a movie more when the hero's watch looks like he bought it at a gas station. Sicario: Day of the Soldado passes. In Stefano Sollima's 2018 follow-up to Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, Benicio del Toro is back as Alejandro Gillick, the cartel-hunting operative, now sent to kidnap a kingpin's teenage daughter and start a war between cartels on Washington's behalf. The first film's morals were already underwater; this one holds them under. And Alejandro dresses for the job, not the camera - right down to the cheapest honest thing in the picture, a black Casio G-Shock.

The likeliest read is the DW-9052, the entry-level square G-Shock with the light button set into the front of the case. The fan site g-central pinned del Toro's as a DW-9052-1BCG, and the film's poster puts the same watch on his wrist, so the call is on solid ground even if it still comes down to reading a blurry frame. A DW-6900 turns up elsewhere in the film too. And the DW-9052 is the right watch for the part: shock resistant, water resistant to 200 meters, lit by an electroluminescent panel, good for about two years on a coin cell, and cheap enough to lose without a second thought, which is why it sits on so many soldiers' and first responders' wrists. Alejandro treats it the way he treats everything else he carries, as gear rather than jewelry. For a man paid to leave no trace, a watch he can walk away from is the only honest choice.