Jennifer Connelly wears a Hamilton Khaki Field

Maddy Bowen works the Sierra Leone war the way a good journalist does, through access: a camera, a phone, and contacts on every side of the diamond trade that funds the fighting. Jennifer Connelly plays her in Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond (2006), the reporter who attaches herself to Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) as they cross rebel territory after a smuggled pink diamond. Connelly carries the film's conscience while DiCaprio and Hounsou carry its action.

On her wrist is a Hamilton Khaki Field King, reference H64455523: a 40mm steel field watch with an automatic movement and a day-date dial. The Khaki Field line descends from the watches Hamilton supplied to the American military, built for legibility and durability rather than show. Hamilton's own catalog lists this exact reference as the watch worn by Maddy Bowen in the film, about as direct a confirmation as a screen watch gets.