For as long as I can remember, movies have been my deepest obsession and primary interest. Watches came much later in comparison and followed half a dozen other deep dives into hobbies both mainstream and incredibly niche (talk to me about Scotty Cameron putters and the minute audible differences between two different brands of high end speaker cable sometime). But movies are my first love and I naturally look for connections to them in just about every other facet of life. Something a friend will say will remind me of a random piece of dialogue from some obscure 90s comedy, or a piece of music takes me back to a needle drop in a Scorsese or Wes Anderson film. And, yes, I scroll through Instagram and see watches and think about movie star ambassadors, or the films where they?ve been spotted. No brand has a longer or prouder history of being tied to the movie industry than Hamilton. Their watches have appeared in films for decades, both intentionally and accidentally, and we?ve covered much of this history at length. There?s a pattern to how these things usually work: as a movie approaches its release date, the watch brand?s PR team reaches out to websites like ours to pitch stories and introduce the watch (particularly if it?s a new variant or an entirely new watch), and that?s how these articles take shape and the watch and movie become connected in the public consciousness.

The Murph, though, is a little different. Hamilton was a partner on Christopher Nolan?s Interst...