Jean-Paul Belmondo wears a Hamilton Linwood

Jean-Paul Belmondo's last film is quieter than anything in Breathless or his stuntman years. In Francis Huster's 2008 drama Un homme et son chien, released in English as A Man and His Dog, Belmondo plays Charles, an old man whose longtime companion remarries and turns him out of her home. He ends up on the streets of Paris with only his dog. The story is modeled on Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist film Umberto D., and it marked Belmondo's return to the screen after the 2001 stroke that had largely ended his career. A roster of French screen veterans turned up for small roles around him, but Huster keeps the film on Belmondo.

In its central image, Charles sits on a park bench with the dog, and a round watch with a pale dial on a steel bracelet is visible on his wrist. Two French watch publications, Montres de Luxe and LeCalibre, identify it as a Hamilton Linwood from the brand's American Classics line. The brand is not legible on screen, so the call rests on those reports together with a watch that matches the description, a simple round dress piece. Hamilton has made watches since 1892, and its American Classics line draws on the company's mid-century designs.

Belmondo was 75 when he made the film, and the 2001 stroke had left his speech and movement limited. Huster shaped the part around that, giving Charles few words and long stretches of simply being watched. It is a long way from the fast-talking, hard-hitting roles that made him a star.