John Rhys-Davies wears a Heuer Airline GMT

Before TAG bought the brand in 1985, Heuer made some of the best travel and pilot watches in the business. The Airline GMT is a quartz piece with a steel-and-gold case and a gold 24-hour bezel, built to track a second time zone, with the names of cities and their GMT offsets engraved into the bracelet links. Collectors who have studied the film generally identify it as the reference 985.313, though that is a likely match rather than a documented fact.

In John Glen's The Living Daylights (1987), John Rhys-Davies wears one as General Leonid Pushkin, the new head of the KGB whom Bond is ordered to assassinate. Timothy Dalton's first turn as Bond is a harder, more grounded reading of the character, and the film treats its Soviet figures with unusual respect: Pushkin is not a villain but a pragmatist trying to head off an arms deal that would enrich a rogue general and a corrupt American dealer. The watch even earns a gadget moment. Held at gunpoint by Bond, Pushkin presses the crown, which works as a panic button, setting off an alarm and a blinking red light on the dial to summon his security guard.