Noah Segan wears a B-Uhr Type B Observation Watch

Near the end of Blood Relatives (2022), Francis lays his watch on a pawnshop counter. The owner offers six hundred dollars; Francis, insulted, points out that it is a German air force relic. He has worn it on his right wrist for the whole film and, as the film reveals, for at least seven or eight decades before that. Noah Segan wrote, directed, and stars in the 88-minute Shudder comedy about a Jewish vampire who has spent a century alone, driving the American Midwest in a 1969 Plymouth Barracuda, until Jane, the fifteen-year-old daughter he didn't know he had (Victoria Moroles), tracks him down. When they reach California and need money to start a normal life, the watch is what he has to sell.

The watch is a B-Uhr, short for Beobachtungsuhr, the oversized observation watch developed for Luftwaffe air crews during World War II and supplied by five manufacturers across Germany and Switzerland, among them A. Lange and Söhne. The Type B dial, introduced in 1941, moves the hours to an inner ring and gives the outer ring to the minutes. A watch like that on a Jewish character who lived through the twentieth century is not an accident of the prop department. Segan is a watch collector, and BAMF Style reports he chose the B-Uhr deliberately, for consistency with Francis's background; in Fangoria's telling, the character's backstory pulls from the real antisemitic horrors of the same century that built the watch.

The watches on screen are not wartime originals. Segan bought a pair of inexpensive quartz B-Uhr watches with the Type B dial to stand in for the A. Lange and Söhne piece Francis would have owned, then sent them to Weston Cutter of Haven Watch Co., maker of the tie-dye-dial watch Segan wore in Glass Onion. Cutter and master watchmaker Donovan Paradise rebuilt and aged the pair for the camera: one lost its second hand to hide the telltale quartz tick, the other kept the hand and lost its battery. Segan reasoned that a hand-wound watch "ostensibly could run for eight decades, but I figured that the band would have worn out, so I opted for a simple nylon pass-through NATO-style strap." That black nylon strap is plainly visible when the watch lies on the pawnshop glass.