Jennifer Aniston wears a Cartier Tank

Jennifer Aniston sits at a kitchen table, chin propped on her folded hands, a steel watch on her wrist and a cup of coffee going cold in front of her. She plays Sarah Huttinger in Rumor Has It, Rob Reiner's 2005 comedy about a young woman who comes home to Pasadena for her sister's wedding and learns that her own family was the basis for The Graduate. Her grandmother, played by Shirley MacLaine, and her late mother had both been involved with the same man, Beau Burroughs, the real Benjamin Braddock, and Sarah goes looking for him, played by Kevin Costner, just as her own engagement begins to wobble.

The watch reads as a Cartier Tank, the steel Francaise with a squared case running into a flat steel bracelet and a cabochon set in the crown. The brand never fully resolves on screen, and no watch publication has pinned down what Sarah wears, so the identification rests on the silhouette rather than a legible signature. The Tank itself dates to 1917, when Louis Cartier shaped its rectangular case after the Renault tanks he had seen on the Western Front, and the steel bracelet version Aniston wears here arrived decades after that.