Michael Douglas wears a Swatch

Adrian Lyne directed Fatal Attraction (1987) from James Dearden's screenplay, which Dearden expanded from his own 1980 short, Diversion. Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher, a married Manhattan attorney whose weekend affair with Glenn Close's Alex Forrest turns into a siege; Anne Archer plays his wife, Beth. Made for about $14 million, it grossed more than $300 million and finished among the highest-grossing films of 1987. Lyne shot it in his glossy style, and Paramount famously reshot the ending after the original version, in which Alex kills herself to frame Dan, tested poorly; the replacement was the bathtub confrontation.

Gallagher's watch is a Swatch, the cheap plastic quartz that Switzerland bet its watch industry on. Ernst Thomke and Nicolas Hayek drove its 1983 launch as an answer to Japanese quartz: a Swiss watch built from 51 parts rather than the 91 of a conventional movement, its mechanism sealed into a molded case with no back to open. It was made to be inexpensive and nearly disposable, a conspicuous choice for a Manhattan lawyer in tailored suits. BAMF Style reads it as a Swatch Original, black-cased with a white dial and a day-date window.