Russell Crowe wears a Breitling Professional

The Breitling Emergency does something no other wristwatch did when it launched in 1995. Pull the bottom screw on the case, unspool the antenna, and the watch starts broadcasting a 121.5 MHz distress signal on the international air-rescue frequency. Aircraft pick it up. Most of the wrists the Emergency lives on never have to find out.

Russell Crowe plays Ed Hoffman, the CIA's Near East Division chief, in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008). Hoffman runs his asset Roger Ferris by mobile phone from Northern Virginia: from the carpool line, the bathroom at his kid's soccer game, the kitchen while breakfast goes cold. Ferris is in Amman, Dubai, Aqaba, the Jordanian desert. Hoffman is in khakis. The Breitling Emergency is on Hoffman's wrist throughout.