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- Film
- The Town (2010)
- Actor
- Jeremy Renner
- Character
- James Coughlin
- Watch
- Rolex Datejust
- Status
- Likely
Ben Affleck's The Town (2010) is a Boston heist movie, and Jeremy Renner plays Jem Coughlin, the volatile half of a Charlestown bank-robbing crew, all gold chain and short fuse. Renner was nominated for an Oscar for it.
Jem flashes a gold Rolex, which suits a man who robs armored cars and wears the proceeds. A Stack Exchange thread, working from SwissWatchExpo listings, called it a Rolex President Day-Date in yellow gold and catalogued the rest of the cast's watches too, noting that nearly everyone in the film wears a nice Rolex, almost certainly product placement. But the bracelet tells a different story. In the still here, at a sunlit table across from Affleck's Doug, the watch sits on a Jubilee bracelet, the five-link style Rolex puts on the Datejust, not the three-link President that defines the Day-Date. Gold case, fluted bezel, pale dial, Jubilee band: that is a Datejust.
The exact reference does not read in the frame, and the dial washes out in the sun, so the model stays at the family level. What is plain is the image Affleck wanted, a townie bank robber with a gold Rolex on his wrist.
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