Viggo Mortensen wears an unidentified watch

Viggo Mortensen plays Chester MacFarland in The Two Faces of January, an American con artist vacationing in Athens with his wife when a confrontation with a private detective forces them to rely on a young tour guide to help them escape. Hossein Amini directed this 2014 thriller, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel, and it has the same sun-drenched menace as her Ripley books. Mortensen's Chester is charming and dangerous, a man whose schemes have finally caught up with him, and his growing paranoia about the young guide played by Oscar Isaac creates tension even when no one is chasing them. Kirsten Dunst plays the wife caught between the two men.

Amini, who wrote the screenplay for Drive, makes his directorial debut here, and the film moves at a deliberate pace through Greece and Turkey, more interested in psychological tension than action sequences. The watch on Chester's wrist is a small, round, white-dial dress watch on a brown leather strap. The earlier database attribution to TAG Heuer does not hold up against the actual silhouette, which reads more like a Longines Master, an Omega De Ville, an IWC Portofino, or a similarly proportioned mid-century-styled dress watch from another maker. Until a premier horology publication formally identifies the prop, the sighting sits at Possible with the brand unverified. If you can match the dial layout, indices, or sub-seconds placement to a known reference, this entry should be updated accordingly.