Jennifer Aniston wears a Cartier Tank

Brooke Meyers sits on the couch with her hands clasped, a yellow gold Cartier Tank on her wrist, the television on and the snacks out. Jennifer Aniston plays Brooke in The Break-Up, Peyton Reed's 2006 comedy about a couple who split and then both refuse to move out of the condo they share. She works at a Chicago art gallery, Vince Vaughn's Gary runs a tour-bus business with his brothers, and a fight that starts over lemons and dirty dishes hardens into a standoff neither will concede. Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, and Vincent D'Onofrio orbit the wreckage.

On Brooke's wrist is a Cartier Tank in yellow gold on a black leather strap, its silvered Roman-numeral dial and slim rectangular case reading clearly across the room. Watch writers identify it as the Tank Solo, the entry model in the Tank line, and point to the yellow gold reference W5200002, a 31 by 24 millimeter quartz piece on an alligator strap. The Tank itself dates to 1917, when Louis Cartier shaped the case after the Renault tanks he saw during the First World War.