George Clooney wears an Omega De Ville

Ryan Bingham fires people for a living. In Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009), George Clooney plays him as a career-transition consultant, the contractor companies bring in to deliver news they would rather not deliver themselves, and he does it from a different city almost every day. He tells us, early on, that he spent 322 days on the road the previous year. In the meeting rooms where he works, his watch rests on the arm of the chair beside him: a round case with a pale silver dial on a dark leather strap, an Omega De Ville Hour Vision.

Omega had launched the Hour Vision in 2007, two years before the film, as the debut of the Calibre 8500, the first movement the company built entirely in-house around George Daniels's Co-Axial escapement. The case runs 41 millimeters, chronometer-certified, with a date and a 60-hour power reserve, and its one distinctive feature is structural: slim sapphire panels set into the sides of the case let light through to the movement. On screen none of that registers. It reads as a plain dress watch, the kind that slips under a shirt cuff.

Clooney has worn the Hour Vision off screen for years, at the Venice Film Festival and well beyond, to the point that the watch press now treats it as his signature. When Esquire covered his 2025 arrival in Venice on the same model, it noted that he had been wearing it back in 2009, throughout Up in the Air.