Joaquim de Almeida wears a Cartier Santos de Cartier

The best Tom Clancy adaptations give their villains room to operate with intelligence. In Phillip Noyce's Clear and Present Danger (1994), Joaquim de Almeida plays Colonel Felix Cortez, a former Cuban intelligence officer working for a Colombian drug cartel who seduces a CIA secretary for information while Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan works through the political layers of a covert war. Willem Dafoe, Henry Czerny, and Miguel Sandoval round out the cast.

On Cortez's wrist is a Cartier Santos. Cartier built the original Santos in 1904 for the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, making it one of the first purpose-built wristwatches, and its square case with exposed bezel screws reads as European and expensive. In one scene a gold Santos on a matching bracelet is clearly visible on de Almeida's wrist, the right watch for a man who trades in seduction and manipulation rather than force.