Jake Johnson wears an unidentified watch

Colin Trevorrow directed Jurassic World. Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Derek Connolly wrote the screenplay. Twenty-two years after the original Jurassic Park, the park is open and attendance is declining because people got bored of dinosaurs. Chris Pratt trains raptors. Bryce Dallas Howard runs operations. Irrfan Khan owns the place. Vincent D'Onofrio wants to weaponize it. BD Wong returns as Dr. Henry Wu from the 1993 original. The solution to falling ticket sales is a genetically engineered hybrid, which goes about as well as you would expect.

Jake Johnson plays Lowery Cruthers, the control room tech who wears original Jurassic Park merchandise he bought on eBay while his colleagues dress in corporate Jurassic World polos. The Casio A158WA-1 on his wrist costs less than twenty dollars. Casio has been making essentially this same watch since the 1980s: stainless steel band, LCD display, LED backlight, alarm, stopwatch. It weighs almost nothing. Nothing about it has changed because nothing about it needed to.

Lowery is the audience surrogate in this film, the guy who remembers the original park and thinks the corporate rebranding missed the point. The A158WA-1 is the watch version of that position. It was perfectly good forty years ago and it is perfectly good now. In a control room full of screens tracking genetically modified killing machines, Lowery checks the time on something that costs less than lunch. That is the character in one prop.