Val Kilmer wearing Polar Accurex II in Heat
Possible sighting

Val Kilmer wears a Polar Accurex II

Spotted as Chris Shiherlis in Heat, 1995.

Polar Accurex II close-up
The Watch Polar Accurex II

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Film
Heat (1995)
Actor
Val Kilmer
Character
Chris Shiherlis
Watch
Polar Accurex II
Status
Possible

Through the armored-car robbery and the downtown shootout that anchors Michael Mann's Heat, Chris Shiherlis wears a blacked-out digital watch, the same field kit the rest of Neil McCauley's crew carries. Boss Hunting identifies it as a Polar Accurex II, a heart-rate monitor that in the mid-1990s was still mostly the preserve of serious athletes, which makes it an unusually deliberate piece of kit to hang on a movie thief.

In the surviving frames Shiherlis is in tactical gloves with his suit cuff pulled over the wrist, so the watch never resolves on screen. The identification follows Boss Hunting's reading of the film rather than a readable dial, and it stays at Possible. The film's far more famous Bulgari is on the other side of the chase, on Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna, while Shiherlis keeps a quieter two-tone Diagono Scuba for the dress scenes.

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Val Kilmer wearing Polar Accurex II in Heat
Copyright 1995 Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved.

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