Chris Pine wears a Casio A168WA

Steve Trevor died in 1918 and comes back in 1984 in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), wearing another man's body after Diana's wish. Chris Pine plays him through a long fish-out-of-water stretch, and during the department-store montage he ends up with a cheap steel Casio digital on his wrist, the watch he later hands to Diana. To a man from the age of trench warfare and pocket watches, a display with no hands and a light that turns on at the press of a button is close to magic.

The watch is a Casio A168WA, the silver, steel-braceleted relative of the resin F-91W and about as inexpensive, roughly twenty to forty dollars. There is one wrinkle: the A168 line did not appear until the 1990s, so it is a quiet anachronism in a 1984 story. It still reads as the throwaway digital that defined the decade.

Watch-spotting sites identify it as the A168WA-1, and on Pine's wrist the steel case and bracelet are clear even with the display turned away. The comedy is in the gap between Trevor, for whom a battery watch is the future, and the audience, for whom it is the most disposable thing in the mall.