Hugh Jackman wears a Red Monkey Designs Wolverine

X2: X-Men United (2003) keeps Wolverine in flannel and leather, a man with no past and no fixed address, and the prop department dressed his wrist to match. Hugh Jackman's Logan wears a watch built into a wide leather cuff, a chrome dial and case on a brown band laced with crisscrossing straps and rivets, the look of something tooled by hand rather than bought.

That is close to the truth. The watch is a Red Monkey Designs piece, from the Los Angeles house known for heavy hand-stitched leather cuff watches, and the screen-worn example later sold at auction with a letter of authenticity from the film's prop master. It is the rare hero watch whose strap matters more than its movement, a feral man's watch, all hide and steel, for a character who is mostly both.