Sam Rockwell wears an unidentified watch

Duncan Jones made Moon for about five million dollars. His feature debut, a one-man show built on a single set with a single actor and a robot voiced by Kevin Spacey. Nathan Parker wrote the screenplay. Rockwell carries the entire film alone, and the BAFTA committee gave Jones the Outstanding Debut award for it. Jones is David Bowie's son, which is the kind of biographical detail that sounds made up but is not.

Sam Bell has been mining helium-3 on a lunar station for nearly three years, talking to GERTY, counting down to his return home. The Diesel DZ7076 on his wrist is a 51mm fashion watch with four time zone subdials. Renzo Rosso founded Diesel in 1978 in Molvena, Italy, as a clothing label. The watches came later, licensed through Fossil Group. The DZ7076 is aggressively oversized, built to be noticed in a Milan club, and here it is on the surface of the Moon where nobody can see it.

There is something absurd about a four-timezone watch on a man in a room by himself. Sam Bell does not need to know what time it is in London, Tokyo, and New York. He barely needs to know what time it is where he is. The Diesel keeps running because quartz keeps running, indifferent to whether anyone cares. Three weeks from going home. The watch will count every hour of it.