Clint Eastwood wears a Hamilton

Clint Eastwood directed and stars in Gran Torino (2008) as Walt Kowalski, a retired Ford assembly-line worker and Korean War veteran holding his ground in a changing corner of Highland Park, Detroit. Through the film he wears a round, light-dialed watch on a dark leather strap, an older American-looking piece in keeping with a man whose house, tools, and 1972 Gran Torino are all maintained exactly as they were decades ago. A thread among Eastwood fans who studied the film, together with a French watch site, reads the watch as a late-1960s Hamilton automatic, but the prop was never officially identified and no reference has been confirmed.