Gert Fröbe wears an unidentified watch

Gert Fröbe plays Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger, the gold-obsessed villain planning to irradiate the US gold reserve at Fort Knox and wreck the global economy. Guy Hamilton directed this 1964 Bond film, the third in the series and basically the one that wrote the rulebook for everything that came after. Fröbe's Goldfinger is patient and theatrical, completely convinced he is the smartest person in any room, happy to explain his whole plan to Bond even while planning to kill him. The German actor barely spoke English during filming and got dubbed by Michael Collins, but his physical performance carries everything. This is the movie that invented the Bond formula: elaborate villain lair, henchman with a gimmick (Oddjob and that lethal bowler hat), girl with a suggestive name, villain who cannot stop talking. Sean Connery's Bond goes head to head with Goldfinger over golf, in captivity, and finally inside Fort Knox. The film was huge, turning Bond from a successful series into something much bigger. Fröbe apparently did not understand most of his own dialogue, but it honestly does not matter. He sells Goldfinger through sheer physical presence. His watch has not been identified.