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Feature: Can you get top marks in our watches and the movies quiz?

Whether as a mere prop or a vital plot device, watches have featured in movies since the earliest days of the silver screen, with Hollywood wardrobe departments now giving them more prominence than ever. With that said, we’ve come up with the ultimate watches-and-cinema quiz that will test your knowledge to the limit.

Will it be a five-star performance or one to forget? Let’s find out.

(Scroll to the bottom to find out the answers.)

1.

What watch did Angelina Jolie wear whilst playing the eponymous character in the 2003 film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life?

2.

Hamilton released a military-style watch named “Murph” after a character in what 2014 sci-fi film?

3.

What watch can be seen in one hell of a blooper in the 1959 epic Ben Hur ? Bearing in mind it’s set in Ancient Rome…

4.

Matt Damon’s character, Jason Bourne, wears what TAG Heuer model throughout the Bourne trilogy?

5.

What does Alec Baldwin’s character, Blake, say about his yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date in 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross?

6.

In the 1979 film Moonraker, Roger Moore’s James Bond wears a watch by which brand? (Clue: it’s not Rolex.)

7.

In what Quentin Tarantino film does a character played by Christopher Walken tell the elaborate—and somewhat unsavoury—story of how a gold watch came to be in his possession?

8.

British watchmaker Bremont kitted out characters with its watches for which 2014 film?

9.

Steve McQueen famously wore a Heuer Monaco watch in which 1971 movie?

10.

Based on a true story, Christopher Nolan’s World War II drama Dunkirk shows Tom Hardy’s character wearing which distinctive pilot’s watch?

Answers

1 - Tissot T-Touch 2 - Interstellar 3 - Rolex Daytona 4 - Tag Heuer Link Chronograph 5 - “This watch is worth more than your car.” 6 - Seiko 7 - Pulp Fiction 8 - Kingsman: Secret Service 9 - Le Mans 10 - Omega CK2129

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