Jack Huston wears an unidentified watch

When House of Gucci came out in 2021, the watch magazines had a field day with it. Hodinkee and Oracle Time and half a dozen others ran articles cataloguing the family's wrists, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso on Maurizio's arm, the Breguet on old Aldo's, and on down the family tree. Almost every Gucci in the film got a writeup. The man who would actually save Gucci did not. Jack Huston plays Domenico De Sole, the family lawyer who became president of the company and, with Tom Ford, dragged it back from the edge in the 1990s. Here he sits across a meeting table from Patrizia Reggiani, taking notes with a pen, and on his wrist is a watch nobody wrote about.

You have to look for it. As he writes, his shirt cuff slides back just far enough to show a flash of gold, a round gold case on a dark leather strap, the dial mostly swallowed by the sleeve. It is a dress watch, the discreet kind, gold without being loud about it. And that is as far as the evidence goes, because the dial stays hidden under the cuff and there is no logo to read. The outlets that itemized every Gucci heirloom on screen never mentioned this one.

There is a quiet logic to that. De Sole is the one figure in this story who is not a Gucci and not doomed, the lawyer in the corner who keeps the books straight while the family tears itself apart over the name on the door. A gold watch worn half under a cuff, expensive and indifferent to being noticed, is exactly the watch for a man like that. In a film whose every famous wrist got written up, his is the one that stayed private.