Will Arnett wears a Rolex Day-Date

Late in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Vern Fenwick gets past a guard and into the Techno Cosmic Research Institute with the Key to the City, the honor New York gave him for saving it. Will Arnett plays Vern, the news cameraman who let the city believe he beat Shredder while the Turtles stayed out of sight, and who spends the sequel cashing the lie in. Inside the lab he pulls the security footage that helps free April O'Neil and Casey Jones, wearing a black cargo jacket and a gold watch.

The watch is a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date, the model collectors call the President. It is yellow gold, with a champagne dial and applied Roman numerals, a fluted bezel, the day of the week spelled out in a window at twelve and the date under a magnifier at three, the whole thing riding on the rounded three-piece links of a President bracelet. Rolex has only ever made the Day-Date in gold or platinum. Propstore offered the actual screen-worn watch in its 2026 Los Angeles sale, scuffed from production, bundled with the costume and the Key to the City under a certificate of authenticity, estimated at 800 to 1,600 dollars. In the catalogue it is "a gold-color watch." The dial in the auction photographs reads ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DAY-DATE.

That gap fits Vern. He trades on the impression of having done something, and on his wrist the Day-Date plays the part. Vern presides over nothing. The Key to the City does better by him. It is a ceremonial trinket, New York's thanks for a save that was not his, and in the TCRI lab it does the only honest work in the outfit, getting the man who took the credit past the guard so he can reach the footage.