George Clooney wears an unidentified watch

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was George Clooney's first film as director, and he cast himself as the CIA handler who pulls Chuck Barris into the spy game. Charlie Kaufman wrote the script from Barris's autobiography — the one where the creator of The Gong Show claims he moonlighted as a government assassin. Whether any of it is true is beside the point. The film treats the lie and the life as the same thing.

Clooney's Jim Byrd wears a gold-toned dress watch on a dark strap, visible when he sits across from Sam Rockwell's Barris in a diner booth. It is a small, round-cased piece — the kind of watch a government man in the 1960s would wear without thinking about it. No brand text is visible, and the specific make has not been identified. The watch fits the character: professional and deliberately forgettable.