Scarlett Johansson wears a CWC GS Sapphire

When a movie needs you to know a character is dangerous and competent, it reaches for a Rolex Submariner or an Omega Speedmaster. Scarlett Johansson plays exactly that character in Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), Gareth Edwards's entry in the dinosaur franchise. Her Zora Bennett is a mercenary, hired to lead a covert team onto a forbidden island and draw blood from the three largest dinosaurs alive, so a pharmaceutical company can turn it into a heart drug. The obvious watch for her is the Submariner. She wears the watch that beat it.

On her wrist is a CWC GS Sapphire, a black quartz field watch from the Cabot Watch Company that costs about three hundred pounds. CWC is not a fashion label. Since 1972 it has supplied the British Ministry of Defence, set up by a former Hamilton executive named Ray Mellor to keep the military in watches after Hamilton pulled out of Britain. In 1980, CWC won the contract to make the Royal Navy's diving watch, and the company it took that contract away from was Rolex. The Submariner the movies keep strapping onto their operatives is the watch the real Navy stopped issuing forty-five years ago. CWC is what it issued instead.

That is the quiet joke of the choice. Zora is meant to be the genuine article, the professional who does the jobs no one wants their name attached to, so the costume gave her the watch such a professional would own. It is a three-hundred-pound quartz watch, good to two hundred metres, on a plain green army strap, with the date window left off. Issue spec, nothing more. Not the watch a movie imagines an operative wears. The one she would.