Ethan Hawke wears an unidentified watch

Before Sunset runs 80 minutes in near-real time. Jesse and Celine walk through Paris and talk. That is basically the whole movie. Nine years after their one night in Vienna, Jesse is a married novelist on a European book tour, and Celine tracks him down at a reading at Shakespeare and Company. Richard Linklater directed from a script he co-wrote with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and the result is so conversational it barely feels scripted.

Jesse wears a vintage yellow-gold dress watch on a black leather strap. The dial is gold, the crystal looks aged, and the overall effect is of something inherited rather than chosen for style. The specific make has not been identified, which seems fitting. Jesse is a writer, not a collector. He is the kind of person who wears his father's watch without knowing what it is.