Willem Dafoe wearing Unidentified watch in Clear and Present Danger
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Willem Dafoe wears an unidentified watch

Spotted as John Clark in Clear and Present Danger, 1994.

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Film
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Actor
Willem Dafoe
Character
John Clark
Watch
Unidentified watch
Status
Unidentified

In Phillip Noyce's Clear and Present Danger (1994), Willem Dafoe plays John Clark, the deniable CIA paramilitary who leads an off-the-books strike against the Cali cartel in Colombia. In the rooftop reconnaissance scene he lies prone on a bell-tower ledge beside a suppressed rifle while a teammate glasses the town below, and a watch rests on his left wrist against the stone: a round, dark-cased dive-style watch on a black strap, with no brand or model readable in the frame. The record once identified it as a Porsche Design Ocean 2000, but that watch is defined by its integrated brushed-titanium bracelet and pale titanium case, while the one on screen is dark and on a strap, so the attribution does not hold. There is no source for it either, so the honest call is an unidentified tool watch, which suits Clark, a man whose whole job is to be untraceable. Until a clearer frame surfaces, the watch stays as deniable as he is.

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Willem Dafoe wearing Unidentified watch in Clear and Present Danger
Copyright 1994 Paramount Pictures.. All rights reserved.

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