Brad Pitt wears an unidentified watch

Fury (2014) keeps Don Collier's watch out of sight for most of its running time. The tank commander his crew calls Wardaddy wears it under his gloves through the fighting, and the clearest look at it comes once the guns are down: bare-chested at a washbasin in a captured German apartment, shaving. Brad Pitt plays Wardaddy as the hard center of five men crossing Germany in April 1945 in a Sherman they have named Fury, a commander who has done terrible things to keep his men alive and is too worn down to pretend otherwise.

The watch itself is a small steel piece on a worn brown leather strap, its silvered dial marked with dark Arabic numerals. Propstore later sold the screen-used original with a certificate of authenticity, calling it plainly a metallic watch whose crown still moves the hands even though the movement no longer runs. The listing names no maker, and none is legible on the dial.

That has not stopped the guessing. Enthusiasts have floated names like Ingersoll or an early Panerai, none of them confirmed. The surest thing about the watch is the one Propstore could put on paper, that Brad Pitt wore it. The movement no longer runs and no maker's name has ever surfaced, so it stays an unidentified vintage watch.