Pierce Brosnan wears an unidentified watch

John Moore's I.T. is a straight-to-video thriller about a tech CEO whose life gets dismantled by a disgruntled IT consultant. Brosnan plays Mike Regan, a man who built his fortune on connectivity and gets punished for it when a temp worker named Ed Porter, played by James Frecheville, hacks his smart home, his car, and his daughter's devices. Daniel Kay and William Wisher wrote the screenplay. Michael Nyqvist and Anna Friel appear in supporting roles.

The watch on Regan's wrist is a Speake-Marin, an independent Swiss brand founded in 2002 by Peter Speake-Marin, a British watchmaker who trained at WOSTEP in Neuchatel and worked restoring antique timepieces before starting his own company in Saignelegier. The brand's logo is the "topping tool," a reference to an actual 18th-century watchmaker's instrument. Speake-Marin watches run $10,000 and up, and they are the kind of thing you buy when you already know what a Patek Philippe is and want something less obvious. For a tech CEO, this is a specific choice. It says the character has money and taste but prefers not to be recognized for either.

In a film where every connected device becomes a weapon, the mechanical watch on Regan's wrist is the one thing Ed cannot reach. No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no firmware to exploit. It runs on a mainspring. The movie does not make anything of this, which is a missed opportunity, but the contrast is there whether the script notices it or not.