Robert Redford wears an unidentified watch

Forrest Tucker escaped from San Quentin in 1979 at the age of 74 and went straight back to robbing banks. David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun (2018) tells the story from David Grann's 2003 New Yorker article, with Robert Redford as Tucker, Casey Affleck as John Hunt, the detective chasing him, Sissy Spacek as Jewel, the widow Tucker starts seeing, and Tom Waits and Danny Glover as his two aging accomplices. The film gives Tucker a tally of sixteen earlier escapes and leaves a blank space at number seventeen. Lowery shot it on Super 16mm. Redford was 82 when he made it, announced his retirement from acting when it was done, and it was the last film performance of his life.

Tucker robs his banks in a suit, and his watch is dressed for the same work: a gold dress watch on his right wrist, Redford's habit for decades, with a minimalist gold dial, gold baton hour markers, a small date window at 3 o'clock, and a brown leather strap closing through a gold single-prong buckle. He checks it to keep his timing during the robberies. Watch forums have tried to name it, a vintage Omega by one reading, a Timex or a Bulova by others, and the readings agree on nothing. The watch has not been identified.