Pierce Brosnan wears a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso

The dial has no name on it. Pierce Brosnan wears a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso all through The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), but the maker's text was taken off the face, probably because he was under contract to Omega as James Bond and could not appear in a rival Swiss brand on screen. John McTiernan directed the remake, with Rene Russo as Catherine Banning, the insurance investigator matching wits with Brosnan's billionaire art thief.

The Reverso has a case that swivels on its base, the trick JLC built for polo players in 1931 so a knock would land on the metal back instead of the crystal. Crown's is the Reverso Duo, which carries a second dial on the reverse, a second time zone with a day-and-night indicator. On screen he wears it front-out, the silver guilloche face with small seconds at six, while he runs an elaborate diversion to lift a Monet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Off screen, Brosnan is a Reverso wearer himself, and a genuine dress-watch enthusiast.