Bruce Willis wears a Breitling J-Class

The Last Boy Scout (1991) is peak Shane Black, a burned-out private detective and a dead quarterback and a script that never stops talking. Bruce Willis plays Joe Hallenbeck, a disgraced Secret Service agent turned PI who is too tired to duck and too stubborn to quit, the role that set the template for every wisecracking Willis hardcase after it.

On his wrist, from prop master Mike Papac's collection, is a Breitling J Class, a water-resistant quartz piece with three crowns and depth markings to a hundred meters. It is more watch than Hallenbeck can afford and exactly the kind of slightly-too-good object a man hangs onto from a better decade. The battery is long dead, its hands stopped at 11:27, sweat-stained inside from the work.