Worn by: Owen Wilson as Ned Plimpton
Reference: Rolex GMT-Master
Brand: Rolex
Ned Plimpton’s Rolex GMT-Master, with its faded red-and-blue bezel, fits perfectly within Wes Anderson’s palette of melancholy and nostalgia. The watch, once a pilot’s tool, here becomes a sentimental relic—possibly inherited, possibly found—worn by a man searching for family and identity. When Ned reaches for Steve Zissou’s hand in the helicopter before their final dive, the GMT catches the light: a small flash of authenticity in a film obsessed with artificiality. Its dual-time function mirrors Ned’s split existence—between sky and sea, father and son, myth and man. The watch, like its wearer, tries valiantly to bridge worlds that never quite meet.