Jeremy Irons wears a Vacheron Constantin Overseas

House of Gucci dresses every wrist like a flex, and most of those watches run a little too modern for the years they're playing. Rodolfo's is the easiest one to miss. Jeremy Irons plays him as the refined, ailing patriarch who shaped the brand's image and wanted nothing to do with Patrizia, and the production puts a Vacheron Constantin Overseas on his wrist: pink gold, 41 millimeters, the brand's notched Maltese-cross bezel, on a black strap.

The trouble is the calendar. Vacheron didn't launch the Overseas until 1996, and the real Rodolfo Gucci died in 1983. The watch is thirteen years younger than the man wearing it.

What gets me is how close they were. Vacheron already had the right piece for him in period: the 222, the sports watch it released in 1977, the design the Overseas grew out of decades later. Swap it in and the era lines up. Instead it's the kind of slip only a watch person clocks, aesthetic over accuracy, and on Irons the aesthetic mostly wins anyway.