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- Actor
- John Travolta
- Character
- Howard Saint
- Watch
- Rolex Yellow Gold
- Status
- Possible
Howard Saint is sitting at a glass-topped table in a bright, low-slung Tampa club, a gold shirt open under a black jacket, when the camera in Jonathan Hensleigh's The Punisher (2004) lets you see the watch. Across from him is his wife, played by Laura Harring in red, a flute of champagne between them. Saint, played by John Travolta, is the city's money launderer and crime boss, the man whose order to kill Frank Castle's extended family at a reunion sets Thomas Jane's character on the revenge that drives the Lions Gate film. He is written to be rich and to look it, and the wardrobe agrees: a gold pinky ring on one hand and, on the right wrist, a heavy yellow-gold bracelet watch that catches the warm club light.
That bracelet is unmistakably yellow gold, and the maker reads as Rolex, but the dial never turns to face the camera in this scene. What you get is the gold of the links and the clasp, blown out by the lighting, with no bezel, crown, or model markings legible. A Rolex fan blog has long captioned a still from the film as a yellow-gold Submariner, but that single non-Tier-1 line is the only thing that names a model, and the frame itself does not support it. So the honest reading is the one the picture allows: a gold Rolex on a man who wears his money where it can be seen, with the exact reference left, fittingly, just out of view.
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