Michelle Pfeiffer wears an Omega

Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean was the first book Oprah Winfrey picked for her Book Club in 1996, and the film adaptation arrived three years later. Ulu Grosbard directs Michelle Pfeiffer as Beth Cappadora, a mother whose three-year-old son Ben disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years pass before the boy turns up — by chance — living in the same town the Cappadoras have just moved to. Stephen Schiff adapted the screenplay, and Treat Williams and Whoopi Goldberg round out the cast.

Pfeiffer wears an Omega on her wrist, though the specific model hasn't been identified. Given the late 1990s setting and Beth's upper-middle-class Chicago life, it's likely a women's dress piece from Omega's contemporary range. The watch does its job as a background detail — it places Beth in a certain economic bracket without drawing attention to itself. The wardrobe department dressed Pfeiffer for the part: tasteful, understated, nothing that competes with the performance. Sometimes the most honest thing you can say about a watch sighting is that the prop department made a good, quiet choice.