"Actor's Watch" focuses on watches worn by actors in movies, television, etc.
In this 136th installment, we will be looking at " Bill Murray's watch ."
" Saturday Night Live (SNL) " began broadcasting in 1975 and is still broadcast live every Saturday as a popular comedy show across the United States. Bill Murray is one of the performers who supported the popularity of "SNL" in its early days, known as a "gateway" program that produced many comedic actors such as Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler. In Japan, he is probably remembered for his role as Dr. Venkman in " Ghostbusters " (1984).
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Bill Murray has been active in the entertainment industry since he was young without an agency or agent, and it is said that it is difficult to contact him without a connection. Although he is also called " the most difficult actor in the world to offer a role to ," he is known as an " eccentric " actor who continues to receive offers to star in many masterpieces and masterpieces, including those directed by Wes Anderson .
This time, we would like to take a closer look at the watch worn by Bill Murray in the movie.
Three Ghosts
SCROOGED (1988)
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After the sudden death of the previous president, Frank ( Bill Murray ) becomes the youngest president of IBC, the world's largest television station. While he is praised by the media as a "successful TV man," he is feared within the company as an arrogant, greedy, and cold-hearted president, as he easily fires anyone who disagrees with him and tries to get by with bonuses in the form of towels with the company's logo.
As his first Christmas after assuming his new position as president approaches, the ghost of the former president ( John Forsythe ) appears before Frank, who only has numbers on his mind, and warns him, "From now on, three ghosts will appear before you. If you don't repent of your daily actions, you will be in big trouble." Frank doesn't give in to the threats, but then he happens to meet his former lover Claire ( Karen Allen ), who looks at him with pity as she works as a volunteer helping others, which makes him question his own life. Then, on Christmas day, the "three ghosts" visit Frank...
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A modern adaptation of Dickens' classic novel, A Christmas Carol . In the original, the protagonist was a miserly loan shark, but in this heartwarming human drama, the protagonist is replaced by an arrogant and ruthless TV station president, making Three Ghosts (1988). The watch worn by Bill Murray, who plays the protagonist, President Frank, in this film, is an Audemars Piquet Perpetual Calendar (Ref. 5548 or Re. 25548) .
This mechanical perpetual calendar watch was released in 1978, a year of the quartz crisis, going against the times. This watch, which shows Audemars Piguet's commitment to mechanical watches, is a fitting choice for a watch worn by the president of a major TV station who would likely be on the rich list.
Bill Murray has also worn this watch in another movie, and it is said that it may be his own watch.
Lost in Translation
LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003)
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Bob Harris ( Bill Murray ), a fading Hollywood star, comes to Japan to shoot a commercial. He is not getting along with his wife of 25 years, and is unable to meet the director's demands on the set due to interpreter issues. Stressed out, he meets Charlotte ( Scarlett Johansson ), the wife of a cameraman staying at the same hotel. Despite the age difference, the two get along well and spend the short time together while they are both in Tokyo.
A Hollywood actor who is exhausted from filming in an unfamiliar place and his wife, a photographer who can't get the attention of her busy husband. The two of them eventually come to share each other's loneliness.
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Lost in Translation (2003) is an adult romance film that depicts the relationship between a man and a woman who meet by chance in an unfamiliar foreign land and who are "more than friends but less than lovers." It won numerous awards at major film festivals in the US and Europe, including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2004. Bill Murray, who plays the role of a Hollywood star who visits Japan, wears a Rolex Datejust (Ref. 16234) in the film.
The simple Datejust with a black dial, Jubilee bracelet, and stainless steel/WG watch subtly adorns the wrist of a sophisticated older man.
The Life Aquatic
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2005)
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Steve Zissou ( Bill Murray ), a marine documentary filmmaker and ocean explorer, has recently been struggling with a string of hits and has just lost a longtime colleague to a jaguar shark attack.
Meanwhile, Steve meets a young man named Ned ( Owen Wilson ), who is his ex-wife's son, and invites him to join them. They then begin tracking down the jaguar shark that attacked their friends.
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The Life Aquatic (2005) is a pop and colorful adventure film depicting the later years of an oceanographic film director who is thought to have been modeled after Jacques Cousteau. It is known as the film that established Wes Anderson's unique style, which continues to this day.
The watch worn by Bill Murray, who plays the protagonist of this film, ocean adventurer and film director Zissou, is the Vostok Amphibia (Ref. 420380) . Vostok was founded based on the former Soviet Union's "Moscow Watch Factory No. 2" and became the military watch of the former Soviet Ministry of Defense. Today, the company, which operates as a private watch manufacturer in Lithuania, produces a mechanical diver's watch that is inexpensive but waterproof to 200m.
Don't you think the pop illustration of a diver in the center of the dial matches perfectly with Wes Anderson's worldview?
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Bill Murray has been an " eccentric " actor since he was young, and that "eccentricity" hasn't changed even now at the age of 72. He has established himself as an actor with a strong eccentricity who is second to none when it comes to playing sarcastic, twisted, and stubborn old men.
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Bill Murray has never had an agent since he was young, and has only appeared in films that he trusted, which has made him a rare actor and given value to his work. Scarcity creates demand , and demand creates value - this is true not only in luxury watches, but in any industry.
Bill Murray was expected to appear in one of those "trusted filmmakers," director Wes Anderson's latest film, " Asteroid City " (2023), but he was forced to drop out due to a COVID-19 infection . What a shame!
However, Bill Murray's films never fail. Let's look forward to his next one.
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