Keanu Reeves wears an Oris Modern Classic

Francis Lawrence's Constantine (2005) casts Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, an occult detective who sees the angels and demons passing as humans and exorcises half-breeds across Los Angeles in the hope of buying his way out of damnation. He chain-smokes, wears a rumpled black suit, and treats the supernatural with the weariness of a man who has done it too long.

His watch gets a hero close-up most film watches never earn, shot tight against a blood-smeared surface, the dial filling the frame and legibly reading ORIS above the center and AUTOMATIC below. It is an Oris Modern Classic, reference 633 7490 4061LS, a Swiss automatic from a line since discontinued: a silver-white guilloche dial with applied baton indices, Arabic numerals at 12, 3 and 9, a date at six. No subdials, no rotating bezel, just a polished case and three hands, nothing to time, which is the point for a man who has stopped caring how he looks but still wears the watch he used to dress for. The afterlife is the strange part. A modest dress Oris that retailed as an ordinary three-hander now trades on the secondary market as the Constantine, a cult reference made entirely by one rumpled exorcist who never once used it to time anything.