Kevin Costner wears a Hampden Pocket Watch

Wyatt Earp (1994) is the long version of the legend - three hours of Kevin Costner aging from a farm boy into the Tombstone lawman and out the far end of his life, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and released six months after the leaner Tombstone had already told the same story. Costner plays him hard and shut down, a man who buries his first wife early and most of his warmth with her.

The pocket watch does quiet work. Propstore caught a detail I'd have walked right past: Earp pockets the watch as he leaves Mattie Blaylock, then sets it down later as his feelings cool and he turns toward Josie Marcus. The other lawmen wear theirs with the chains showing, but this is the one the story actually leans on.

So whose watch is it? The auction lot shrugs - no maker, just a scratched and tarnished "metal pocket watch" with a Planet Hollywood certificate. But it's a Hampden, out of Springfield and later Canton, Ohio, one of the big American names of the era - exactly the watch a lawman in Earp's day would really have carried.