Josh Brolin wears a Vacheron Constantin American 1921

Bretton James runs Churchill Schwartz, the bank that quietly engineered a rival's collapse, in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), the sequel arriving 23 years after Gordon Gekko. Josh Brolin plays him as the smoother, harder-to-read villain the film needs.

His watch is a Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921, a revival of the watch Vacheron built in 1921 for drivers: the entire dial is rotated toward the wrist and the crown moved toward one o'clock, so a man gripping a steering wheel could read the time at a glance. Vacheron Constantin co-hosted the film's premiere party at the Cannes Film Festival with Twentieth Century Fox, and watch publications place the American 1921 on Brolin. On screen the rose-gold cushion case and its tilted dial are visible on his wrist.