Jeff Goldblum wears a Hamilton Jazzmaster

Jeff Goldblum returns as David Levinson in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), the nervous, fast-talking scientist from Roland Emmerich's 1996 original, now running Earth's Space Defense program twenty years after the first invasion. Goldblum plays him in the same register: the halting delivery, the restless hands, the brilliant man slightly amazed to be in charge.

Levinson wears a Hamilton Jazzmaster GMT Auto, one of four Hamiltons the brand placed across the film. It is a steel dress watch with a second-time-zone hand, fitting for a man coordinating a global defense, and it retailed around 1,275 dollars. The Jazzmaster is a relatively recent line for Hamilton, introduced in the mid-2000s as its mid-range dress collection of Swiss-movement, American-styled watches.