Rosamund Pike wears an IWC Portofino

Marla Grayson sits with her yellow stiletto heels propped up and a clear plastic cup in one hand, relaxed, in a white broderie-anglaise blouse, watching something off frame with the half-smile of a woman who has just won. This is how J Blakeson introduces the predator at the center of I Care a Lot, the 2021 black comedy he wrote and directed about legal guardianship fraud. Rosamund Pike plays Grayson, a court-appointed guardian who has elderly strangers declared incompetent, moves them into care facilities, and liquidates their assets for her own profit. The scheme she runs is real; the film's invention is the Russian mob connection that surfaces once she targets the wrong old woman. Pike gives Grayson the same icy precision she brought to Amy Dunne in Gone Girl, the bearing of someone who has decided that conscience is a competitive disadvantage.

On her left wrist, resting across her lap, is a round gold IWC Portofino on a fine gold Milanaise mesh bracelet, the woven weave catching the light against the pale dial. The placement is no accident, since Pike is a confirmed IWC Schaffhausen ambassador, so the watch is a genuine brand relationship rather than a stray prop. It is the Portofino Automatic Moon Phase 37, the gold Milanaise version, a dress watch in IWC's most formal line, named after the Italian fishing village that became a celebrity retreat in the 1950s; the moon-phase aperture tracks the lunar cycle, pure decoration for a woman whose work happens in courtrooms and care homes. That is the quiet joke of it. Grayson's entire pitch to a judge is that she can be trusted with someone's life, and the most expensive thing she wears is a watch built to tell her the phase of the moon she will never once need to know.