Michael Imperioli wears a Panerai Submersible

The Di Grasso men come to Sicily three generations deep, chasing the family's roots, and Dominic is the one in the middle holding everyone's tension. Michael Imperioli plays him as a Hollywood producer whose marriage is falling apart over his cheating, a man working hard to look in control of a trip and a life that are both getting away from him. The watch he packed is built to project exactly that: a Panerai Submersible QuarantaQuattro Goldtech OroCarbo.

Panerai is a Florentine house that once made diving instruments for the frogmen of the Italian navy, and the Submersible is its diver, a broad cushion case with the brand's signature crown-guard lever. This is the forty-four millimeter version, which is what QuarantaQuattro means, cased in Goldtech, Panerai's own copper-heavy red gold, over a dark OroCarbo dial. It runs about thirty-two thousand dollars on a black rubber strap, big enough and warm enough in color that no one at the table would miss it.

For an Italian-American producer retracing his bloodline through Sicily, an Italian dive watch in red gold is almost too on the nose, which is why it fits. Dominic performs virility and heritage in the same breath, hiring an escort on the same trip where he lectures his son about how to treat women. A big Panerai in red gold is the loudest kind of reassurance for a man whose life is quietly coming apart.