Julianne Moore wears a Luminox Navy SEAL Chronograph

I don't usually rewind for a wrist, but this one stopped me. Next (2007) is Lee Tamahori's loose run at a Philip K. Dick story, and it hands 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 turn that gift against a plot to set off a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Then the camera pushes in tight on her wrist, and I went back a frame.

What is she wearing? A Luminox Navy SEAL chronograph - steel case, black dial, a black rotating bezel marked off in tens, three subdials with orange accents, a date window, and SWISS MADE at the foot of the dial. The hour markers and hands glow on their own, which is the part I find genuinely clever. 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 one trick is more or less the whole company. Luminox started in 1989 and made its name in 1992, when it became the watch supplier to the U.S. Navy SEALs, whose night work needed a dial they could read with no light at all. And here is the part I keep turning over. In a film whose whole premise is seeing what hasn't happened yet, the one agent chasing that gift is wearing the one watch built to be read when you can't see anything at all.