Michael B. Jordan wears an Oris Divers

The still on this record has Charles Monroe King at home, holding his infant son, and on his left wrist, chronograph pushers just visible, is the Oris Carl Brashear Chronograph Limited Edition. Michael B. Jordan plays King in Denzel Washington's A Journal for Jordan (2021), the First Sergeant who kept a journal of advice for the son born during his deployment and who was killed in Baghdad in 2006. Wrist Enthusiast identified the watch and the scene: a 43 millimeter bronze dive chronograph, limited to 2,000 pieces, with a deep blue two-register dial, a sapphire crystal domed to read like vintage acrylic, and Oris's first use of the Sellita SW510 movement, which the brand christened calibre 771.

Carl Brashear earned the tribute the hard way. In March 1966, aboard USS Hoist during the recovery of a hydrogen bomb lost off Palomares, Spain, a bowline parted and a piece of the landing craft struck his left leg after he had pushed a shipmate to safety; the leg was amputated below the knee that May. By April 1968 he was the first amputee recertified as a US Navy diver, and in 1970 he became the Navy's first Black master diver. Cuba Gooding Jr. played him in Men of Honor. The watch's caseback is steel rather than bronze, because bronze oxidizes against skin, and it carries an embossed diver's helmet with Brashear's mantra: "It's not a sin to get knocked down, it's a sin to stay down." It is the second Oris tribute the film put on Jordan's wrist; the Roberto Clemente edition appears in the restaurant scene.