Forest Whitaker wears a Victorinox Renegade

Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), which is the kind of film where a hitman communicates exclusively through carrier pigeons and reads passages from Hagakure between killings. Forest Whitaker plays Ghost Dog, a solitary assassin who lives on a rooftop in Jersey City and follows the samurai code of loyalty to a single master: Louie (John Tormey), a low-ranking mobster who once saved his life. RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan composed the score. The film runs 116 minutes and never hurries through any of them.

The Victorinox Renegade on Ghost Dog's wrist has an attached compass, which is unusual for a movie watch. The Renegade was part of Victorinox's Swiss Army line, a practical tool watch in the company's tradition of making things that work. The compass fits the character. Ghost Dog navigates by a personal code that nobody else in the film understands. He and his best friend, a Haitian ice cream vendor named Raymond, do not speak each other's languages. His employer barely knows he exists. A compass is the right accessory for someone who finds his own way through everything.