Robert Redford wears an unidentified watch

Robert Redford plays Paul Bratter in Barefoot in the Park (1967), reprising the role he originated on Broadway in Neil Simon's comedy about newlyweds discovering they might not be compatible after all. Paul is a buttoned-up lawyer who likes things orderly. His wife Corie, played by Jane Fonda, wants spontaneity and adventure. Their sixth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village becomes a battleground over thermostat settings and unexpected dinner guests. Gene Saks directed the 1967 film, keeping the theatrical feel while letting Redford and Fonda find the real frustration underneath the witty dialogue. Redford plays Paul's stuffiness as a defense mechanism, and watching him loosen up by the end is the whole point.

In the publicity portraits with Fonda, the watch sits on Paul's right wrist: a simple gold watch with a round champagne dial on a silver-toned expanding bracelet, the ribbed kind that stretches over the hand. His only other jewelry is the new gold wedding ring on his left hand. Redford usually wore his own steel watches on screen, and this is one of the period roles where a delicate yellow-gold piece went on instead. The film never gives the watch a clear close-up, and no one has identified the maker.