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- Film
- Faster (2010)
- Actor
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Character
- Detective Slade Humphries
- Watch
- Seiko 6309
- Status
- Confirmed
George Tillman Jr.'s Faster (2010) is a lean revenge picture. Dwayne Johnson, just out of prison, works through a list of the men who killed his brother. Billy Bob Thornton plays Detective Slade Humphries, a corrupt, heroin-addicted cop close to retirement who is tangled up in the original crime and assigned to the case.
The watch on his wrist is a Seiko 6309, the cushion-cased automatic diver Seiko built from 1976 to 1988, with a day-date and 150 meters of water resistance. It is one of the most collected of Seiko's affordable vintage divers. The identification is unusually well documented: Hodinkee ran a Friday Afternoon Find on it in 2011, after the screen-worn watch turned up for sale at the prop house Premiere Props for $329.99. Hodinkee called it "a Seiko reference 6309, which is a reference appreciated by many Seiko collectors," and noted that prop watches are sometimes non-working dummies, so a buyer would want to check.
The only image on file is a film backdrop rather than a clear shot of the watch on Thornton's wrist, so the close look here comes from Hodinkee's writeup of the prop rather than from a frame.
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