The No.1 box office grossing actor Harrison Ford's watch ~Actor's Watch #37~

"Actor's Watch" focuses on watches worn by actors in movies, television, etc.
For the 37th issue, we bring you Harrison Ford's watch .

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Harrison Ford has played major characters in many of Hollywood's top annual box office hits, including Han Solo in the Star Wars series and Dr. Indy in the Indiana Jones series. His popularity and ability to draw audiences is incredible, and although the data is a little old from 2016, the box office revenues of all 41 films that Harrison Ford has starred in so far have reached a cumulative 4.7 billion dollars (about 560 billion yen ) thanks to the smash hit Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).

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This figure surpassed the previous record of $4.6 billion held by Samuel L. Jackson , making him the No. 1 actor in Hollywood. The figures proved that he was the actor who could draw the most audiences in Hollywood .

Harrison Ford is a star actor who truly deserves to be called a "top of the top stars." Let's take a look at his watch.

Blade Runner

BLADE RUNNER (1982)

"Replicants" are artificial humans who are almost indistinguishable from humans, and are forced to work on dangerous planetary development. This is a sci-fi suspense action film that depicts the struggles and suffering of Agent Deckard (Harrison Ford), a "Blade Runner" tasked with searching for and eliminating replicants who have infiltrated human society, defying the humans who are forcing them into this harsh labor.

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Like the 2003 film Paycheck starring Ben Affleck that we introduced last time, this film is based on the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, the genius of American sci-fi. It was adapted into a film by Ridley Scott, director of films such as Alien (1979) and Black Rain (1989), and is set in a "dark, dingy and decadent near-future city."

While images of near-future cities have become familiar through science fiction movies and games, it is no exaggeration to say that the city depicted in "Blade Runner" was its forerunner.

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The watch worn by Harrison Ford, who plays Agent Deckard, a Blade Runner who chases replicants, in this film is the Microma LCD watch . This watch is known among sci-fi movie fans as the "Deckard watch." Microma is an electronics manufacturer that released the world's first digital watch using liquid crystal in 1971. This inorganic appearance fits well with the atmosphere of the near-future city.

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In addition, Harrison Ford also appears in the sequel , Blade Runner 2049 (2017), as an older Deckard. Unfortunately, however, he does not wear a wristwatch. Instead, Ana de Armas , who played the cute Bond girl in No Time to Die (2021), appears in this film as a very cute AI-equipped hologram girlfriend, so please enjoy her. *Source: https://screenrant.com/

Mosquito Coast

THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986)

Allie Fox (Harrison Ford), an inventor who hates controlled society, and his family settle in the Mosquito Coast , a jungle region of Honduras far from civilization. The Fox family was meant to live the ideal life here, but they are forced to flee the jungle due to attacks by armed groups and contamination by chemicals from their inventions. Nevertheless, Allie's persistence in his ideals keeps his wife and children at his mercy. The family's trust gradually crumbles.

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This is the second collaboration between director Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, following Witness (1985), which depicts the friendship between an Amish boy who witnesses a murder and the detective who protects him. Both are suspenseful human dramas that depict the interactions and conflicts in a society isolated from civilization, which is the director's specialty.

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In this film, Allie, the inventor played by Harrison Ford, wears an Omega Seamaster , likely Ref. 166.003 . The story is set in the midst of the Quartz Crisis, but as an inventor who loves nature and hates modern civilization, he still wears a simple mechanical watch with a leather strap, which gives it a "characteristic" feel.

6 Days 7 Nights

SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHT (1998)

"6 Days 7 Nights" is a romantic survival comedy about Quinn (Harrison Ford), a pilot of an airplane that is struck by lightning and crash-lands on a deserted island, and Robin, a female editor who is a passenger on the plane. The two, who are the worst kind of people, gradually become attracted to each other despite their differences as they try to escape the island.

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The story is a classic, sometimes fun, sometimes suspenseful, with scenes of roasting and eating a peacock, getting caught by pirates, and more. This is a specialty of director Ivan Reitman, who also directed Ghostbusters (1984). The heroine, Anne Heche , is very charming as a cute little devil.

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Harrison Ford, who plays the veteran pilot Quinn in this movie, wears an Omega Speedmaster . With the day and month display split into two at the 12 o'clock position and a 24-hour hand on the 9 o'clock subdial, it looks like a Ref. 3520.50.00 Mark 40 , commonly known as the "Cosmos." Although it is multifunctional, it is not very waterproof, so I don't think it's suitable for survival on a deserted island (lol).

Ender's Game

ENDER'S GAME (2013)

After fending off an alien invasion of Earth 50 years ago, humanity plans to prepare for the next attack by raising commander candidates from among children who are good at games and putting them through rigorous training. Andrew, a talented boy nicknamed "Ender," heads to the space training facility "Battle School" as a candidate, where he undergoes rigorous training under Colonel Graff of the International Fleet. Ender, who remains as a final candidate for commander, is to take part in a battle simulation that mimics the enemy's home planet as his final test...

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This film is a film adaptation of Orson Scott Card 's sci-fi novel "Ender's Game," which won two of the most prestigious awards in the American science fiction world in the 1980s, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award . Harrison Ford plays Colonel Graff, the instructor who discovers Ender's talent.

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The watch that Colonel Graff wears is a Fortis Cosmonaut Chronograph Ref . 630.10.11M. Fortis is a watch brand that has made a great contribution to Russian space development since it was first adopted on the Mir Space Station in 1994. The anti-alien force is called the "International Fleet," but the fact that the instructor is wearing a Fortis watch may suggest that Russian forces are influential in the world of the play.

summary

Harrison Ford is the "top star of top stars," but his true personality is said to be very "friendly." Even after becoming a star actor, he continues to use the carpentry skills he developed as a young actor to do his own renovations and make furniture. He is also a qualified pilot, and has even flown in his private plane to rescue hikers and Boy Scouts stranded in the mountains (as a pilot, Harrison Ford uses a Breitling Aerospace ).

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In recent years, it has become customary for him to dress up and go out with his wife, actress Calista Flockhart, during Halloween and be photographed by the paparazzi. If you search for keywords like "Harrison Ford Halloween," you can enjoy their hilarious appearances to your heart's content.

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Whenever I see Harrison Ford like this, I think that it's not only his acting ability that's important, but also his personality and popularity, which allows him to be a top star without being arrogant , that has attracted offers to appear in so many hit films.

The same is true in the watch industry. If the staff is not very personable or well-liked, it is difficult to attract good watches or rare timepieces. In both movies and watches, valuable things come from the connections between people .

If you want to find valuable watches and rare pieces, you need to hone your character, gain popularity, and become a store that people think , "I can trust that store (that person) with my watch." Otherwise, you will never become a "top" like Harrison Ford.

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