Julianne Moore wears a Luminox Navy SEAL Chronograph

Next (2007), Lee Tamahori's loose Philip K. Dick adaptation, gives Nicolas Cage a Las Vegas magician who can see two minutes into his own future. Julianne Moore plays Callie Ferris, the FBI agent trying to harness that gift against a nuclear-terror plot, and at one point the film pushes in tight on her wrist.

On it is a Luminox Navy SEAL chronograph: a steel case, a black dial and a black rotating bezel marked off in tens, three subdials with orange accents, a date window, and SWISS MADE printed at the foot of the dial. The hour markers and hands glow on their own. Luminox builds them around tiny tritium gas tubes, self-powered micro-lights that keep a dial readable in complete darkness for years, with nothing to wind, charge, or hold up to a lamp first.

That trick is the whole company. Luminox started in 1989 and made its name in 1993, when it won the contract to supply watches to U.S. Navy SEALs, whose night work needed a dial they could read with no light at all. There is a quiet joke in handing this one to Ferris. In a film whose entire premise is seeing what has not happened yet, the FBI agent wears the watch engineered to be read when you cannot see anything.