Jack Nicholson wears an unidentified watch

By 1948, Jake Gittes has done well for himself. The private investigator who got his nose slashed in Chinatown is now prosperous, well-dressed, and working bigger cases in postwar Los Angeles. Jack Nicholson directed The Two Jakes (1990) himself — Robert Towne wrote the script again — and the sequel replaces Roman Polanski's cold precision with something messier and more personal. The plot involves a real estate deal, a recording of a murder, and Harvey Keitel as the other Jake, a developer whose wife may have a connection to Gittes's past. The film was not a success, partly because it asks you to remember everything about Chinatown and partly because Nicholson the director is more indulgent than Polanski would have been.

The available image is a movie poster, so the watch cannot be examined. The existing description calls it a gold dress watch, which would make sense for Gittes in 1948 — a PI who has moved up from rough cases to moneyed ones. It has not been identified.