Joseph Gordon-Levitt wears a Timex

Brick (2005) is Rian Johnson's first feature, a hardboiled noir transposed onto a Southern California high school, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Brendan Frye, a withdrawn teenager unraveling the death of his ex-girlfriend in the cadence of a Dashiell Hammett detective. At 12:46 he glances at his wristwatch while waiting on a pay phone: a round watch with a white dial, full Arabic numerals, a brass-toned case, and a brown leather strap. The dial is not legible on screen, but the design closely matches Timex's long-running Easy Reader, and a watch-spotting note identifies it as a Timex, so it is recorded here as a likely Timex with the model undetermined. It is an unflashy, inexpensive watch, which suits a high-school kid working a case alone.