Brad Pitt wears a Rolex

Rusty Ryan eats his way through Ocean's Eleven. Across Steven Soderbergh's 2001 heist, Brad Pitt plays Danny Ocean's right hand as a man who is forever eating, a plate or a snack in his hand while Danny works the room, and the running bit pays off in the last scene when a cheeseburger gives him heartburn.

The watch on Rusty's wrist is harder to pin down. He wears it under loose, open cuffs, and the camera never settles on it long enough to read. Watch dealers who have catalogued the Ocean's wardrobe describe a two-tone Rolex Submariner, the steel and gold Rolesor version with a black dial, though none of them cite a reference number or a source for the call. The most detailed costume study of the film reads it differently, calling the watch in Rusty's final scene a white gold piece with a pale dial on a link bracelet and going no further than possibly a Rolex. Rolex is the safer call. The exact model is not.

Whatever it is, the watch reads expensive and casual at once, and the film uses that. Danny Ocean gets a Hamilton, the understated American option, and Rusty runs flashier. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland carried the difference through the pair's scenes together, and it peaks in the last image of the film, when Danny walks out of prison in a tuxedo and Rusty meets him in a custom snakeskin shirt. Ted Nugent called, Danny tells him. He wants his shirt back.