Eddie Murphy wears an unidentified watch

Reggie Hammond trades prison blues for his own Giorgio Armani suit, a Prince of Wales check that he says cost $957 and wore into prison himself. The watch matches it for money. Eddie Murphy plays Hammond in his screen debut, a convict with six months left on a three-year armed-robbery sentence, sprung for two days so San Francisco inspector Jack Cates can work him for a line on the cop-killer Albert Ganz.

On his right wrist sits a yellow-gold dress watch on a matching gold bracelet, a large white dial with plain gold baton indices inside a TV-shaped case. The same hand carries two gold rings, a ridged band on the pinky and a row of diamonds on the ring finger. That cushion-and-tonneau silhouette was a quartz-era staple, the kind Bulova, Citizen, Omega, and Seiko all turned out through the late 1970s and early 1980s, and no source has named the maker of Reggie's example. The Armani suit is documented down to the cut and the price. The watch beside it has no name.

Cates wears his on the same wrist, a cheap 'Blue Thunder' Casio digital, while the convict he is escorting wears gold. The costume design keeps making that joke. Murphy reprised the role and the suit for the 1990 sequel, Another 48 Hrs.