Worn by: Jim Caviezel as Warden Willard Hobbes
Reference: Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar
Brand: Patek Philippe
Warden Hobbes’s Patek Philippe 5970P is the ultimate symbol of tyranny disguised as sophistication. The platinum case and intricate calendar complications speak to obsessive order, a man who believes control can be engineered to the second. In the prison’s sterile light, the Patek gleams like a trophy of dominance — beauty weaponized. As the system he commands begins to fracture, the watch’s perpetual rhythm mocks him: precision without mercy, luxury ticking over the sound of captivity.
Worn by: Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin
Reference: Panerai Radiomir
Brand: Panerai
Ray Breslin is a structural security specialist who tests prison security systems by breaking out, until he's betrayed and imprisoned in a secret facility he helped design, forcing him to use all his expertise to escape an "inescapable" high-tech prison. The PAM 249's California dial represents one of watchmaking's most unusual dial layouts—Roman numerals in the top half, Arabic numerals in the bottom half. This asymmetric design originated in 1930s pocket watches and was used on some Panerai military prototypes. For a film about prison escape and breaking established rules, the unconventional California dial provided symbolic resonance. The Radiomir case, Panerai's original 1936 design, features wire lugs and lacks the crown-protecting device of later Luminor models, creating a slimmer, more elegant profile. At 45mm with the hand-wound OP XI caliber (based on ETA 6497), the PAM 249 maintained Panerai's tool-watch dimensions while offering classical aesthetics. The California dial's mixed numeral styles create a technically unnecessary asymmetry that challenges watch design conventions—appropriate for a character whose profession involves identifying and exploiting structural weaknesses in seemingly perfect systems.