Matt Dillon wears a Rolex Submariner

Sam Lombardo is a high school guidance counselor who keeps a boat, a nice house, and a Rolex, and only one of those is supposed to fit. In John McNaughton's 1998 neo-noir Wild Things, Matt Dillon plays Lombardo with the easy, tanned charm of Blue Bay, Florida, a wealthy town at the edge of the Everglades, until two students, played by Denise Richards and Neve Campbell, accuse him of rape and the case detonates into a chain of double-crosses where nobody is conning the person you think. The watch on his wrist is a Rolex Submariner Date, reference 16610.

The 16610 is the modern steel Submariner most people picture when they hear the name: a 40mm Oyster case on a steel bracelet, a glossy black tritium dial with the date at three, and a black aluminum bezel that has aged to the soft gray collectors call a ghost bezel. Rolex made it from 1989 to 2010 around the automatic Caliber 3135. A dive watch suits a man who spends his weekends on the water, which is part of why it works so well here. It is also a lot of watch for a high school guidance counselor, an early hint that Sam Lombardo is more than his job title suggests.