Nicolas Cage wears an unidentified watch

Spike Jonze's Adaptation. turns Charlie Kaufman's struggle to adapt The Orchid Thief into a film about being unable to write the film, with Nicolas Cage playing both Charlie and his invented twin Donald. The watch turns up on one of Charlie's insomniac nights. It is 3:33 in the morning, he switches on the bedside lamp, and he lies there holding Susan Orlean's book up over his face. On his wrist is a rectangular dress watch on a black leather strap, the long tank-style case catching the lamplight against a pale dial. The dim, warm lighting makes the case metal hard to call, and no source has identified the brand or model, so it stays unidentified here. It is a quiet, old-fashioned choice that fits a man who lives almost entirely inside his own head.