Nicolas Cage wears a Casio LTP-E140G-9AVT

Nicolas Cage playing a fictionalized version of Nicolas Cage wears a gold-toned Casio that costs under thirty dollars. The LTP-E140G is technically from Casio's women's line, with a slim mesh bracelet and a dial small enough to pass as jewelry. It looks like gold from a distance. It is not gold. Tom Gormican directed The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the watch is doing exactly what the film is doing: presenting the surface of wealth while the reality underneath has run dry.

Cage's actual screen watch history includes a Rolex Daytona in Leaving Las Vegas, Rolex Submariners in both National Treasure films, and a Rolex Day-Date in Lord of War. Those are serious watches for serious money. The Casio here is the punchline to that progression. In the film, Pedro Pascal's Javi Gutierrez wears a real gold Rolex while the actual movie star wears a $25 imitation. The whole plot runs on Cage needing money badly enough to attend a superfan's birthday party. The watch sells that premise without a word of dialogue.

Cage has eight sightings across 27 years. The Casio is the cheapest by a factor of a hundred. It's also the most honest piece of costume work in his filmography, because the character it's dressing is the one closest to the real person.