Gene Hackman wears an unidentified watch

Popeye Doyle's gold watch gets stolen off his wrist while he's too high to notice. That's the kind of sequel French Connection II is. John Frankenheimer directed this 1975 follow-up, sending Gene Hackman's obsessed NYPD detective to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who escaped at the end of the first film. The French police don't want Doyle there, Charnier's men capture him and get him addicted to heroin, and the middle section of the film is a harrowing withdrawal sequence that Hackman reportedly insisted on playing without stunt doubles.

Doyle wears an all-gold watch with a round "pie-pan" dial on a gold straight-link expansion band. In the first film, he wore a Timex Marlin — cheap, functional, a cop's watch. The gold upgrade in the sequel goes unexplained, and a junkie lifts it off Doyle's wrist during his heroin stupor. He never gets it back. The brand hasn't been identified.