Robin Williams wears a Nivram (Marvin) Dress Watch

Robin Williams won the Oscar for Good Will Hunting (1997) by being still. Sean Maguire is a community-college psychology professor in Boston, grieving his late wife, teaching undergraduates, living small. Gus Van Sant directed, and the scenes between Williams and Matt Damon's Will Hunting run on the kind of silences Williams, of all people, plays with real discipline.

The watch on Maguire's wrist is a Nivram, a plain analog dress watch with gold hands on a dark brown leather strap. Nivram is Marvin spelled backwards, a name tied to the old Swiss watch house of Marvin, exactly the sort of modest, half-forgotten brand a grieving community-college professor would have kept for decades. Propstore sold the screen-worn piece, its leather cracked and scuffed from production, with a certificate of authenticity. It is the kind of watch you wear because it was good enough the day you bought it and you never saw a reason to replace it.