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- Actor
- Rowan Atkinson
- Character
- Mr. Bean
- Watch
- Casio DBC-610
- Status
- Confirmed
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) drops Rowan Atkinson on a sputtering moped on a French back road, pointed toward Cannes, with a watch on his wrist and no real plan. Bean won the trip in a raffle, along with a camcorder and two hundred euros, and the prize comes apart the moment he reaches France. He films himself at a Paris train station, accidentally makes a Russian director miss his train, and ends up steering the man's stranded young son south while the police begin treating him as a kidnapper. Steve Bendelack directed it. Atkinson barely speaks for the whole film, so Bean has to land through his face and the few things he carries.
The watch is a Casio DBC-610, one of Casio's calculator databank models. The display sits above a keypad: an eight-digit calculator, and a Telememo bank that stores about fifty names and phone numbers. Propstore measured this exact watch at about three centimeters wide and a centimeter thick. These are mass-market digital watches, not luxury objects, and clean vintage examples now trade around a couple hundred euros.
For the film the original metal bracelet came off and a brown leather strap went on, and Propstore, which sold the screen-used watch in June 2026 with a certificate of authenticity, notes the metal bracelet was boxed with it. The watch did not come off a costume rail. By Propstore's account it reached the production through PRO.P.AG.AND.A. Global Entertainment Marketing, the entertainment-marketing agency that supplied it. A databank watch is a personal organizer for the wrist, a calculator with a list of phone numbers in it, made for someone with sums to run and people to call. Bean has neither. He jabs at the tiny buttons one finger at a time, with a look of deep concentration, while everything around him falls apart.
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