Terry Crews wears a Panerai Submersible

Hale Caesar shoulders a grenade launcher stenciled in Cyrillic, goggles pushed up on his cap, fingerless gloves, and a bronze watch on his wrist. Terry Crews plays Caesar, the heavy weapons man of The Expendables 2, which shot in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the fall of 2011. Mr. Church sends the team into the former Soviet Union to pull an item from a downed plane; the item turns out to be a map to a hidden Russian plutonium mine, Jean-Claude Van Damme's Vilain kills one of their own taking it, and the rest of the film is the team hunting him down.

The watch is a Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Bronzo, reference PAM00382: a 47mm bronze case around a green dial, a 4mm sapphire crystal, Panerai's P.9000 automatic behind a titanium back, a thousand pieces made starting in 2011, 11,600 dollars at list. Bronze darkens with wear, so every example ages into its own patina. Stallone, a longtime Panerai devotee, put one on each Expendable: Lundgren, Statham, Couture, Crews, and himself, and nobody in the cast paid for theirs. Stallone's own example went to auction at Sotheby's in 2024, catalogued as owned and screen-worn in The Expendables 2, with a spare skull-studded strap and a handwritten note in the lot.

Crews kept his. Seven years later, modeling seven of the year's top luxury watches for a magazine shoot, he said most of his watches have a real big meaning behind them, and the one he singled out was the Bronzo Stallone gave him on Expendables 2. Sly's a good dude, he said.