John Houseman wears an unidentified watch

Mr. Wabash is the kind of CIA official who wears a bow tie to the office and talks about murder the way other people talk about budget allocations. John Houseman plays him in Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (1975) as the senior figure who appears at the end to clean up the mess after Robert Redford's Joseph Turner, a bookish CIA researcher, discovers that his entire office has been killed and spends three days trying to figure out who ordered it and why. Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel wrote the screenplay, and the film belongs to the mid-1970s paranoid thriller cycle — All the President's Men, The Parallax View, The Conversation — where the conspiracy always goes higher than you think.

Houseman's watch is visible in the image, a small steel dress watch on his left wrist, but it cannot be identified. Houseman was 73 when this film was made and had won an Oscar two years earlier for The Paper Chase. He plays Wabash as a man who has been in intelligence long enough that none of it surprises him anymore.