How Tenet’s Special Watch Was Built In Total Secrecy
Hamilton made a custom watch for Tenet, but even the piece’s creators had no idea what it would be used for.
This is the third Nolan movie Hamilton has furnished watches for—they first paired up for 2012’s finale to the Batman trilogy The Dark Knight Rises and the Matthew McConaughey-starring space odyssey Interstellar. Being selected as the watch brand in a Nolan movie is a high honor. Maybe no director is more obsessed with time than Nolan, which means watches often play a more-than-stylistic role in his films. In Interstellar, McConaughey uses the Hamilton he gave his daughter to communicate with her through morse code. On their lasting relationship Stauffer says, “He knows we fully trust his way of using our products and that we have the flexibility to bring something together.”
The watch’s important role was a gift and a curse, though. More than any other piece Hamilton has supplied for Nolan, this one was by far the most complicated to create. Nolan needed an analog watch—meaning one with your classic dial comprised of hands and hour markers—that also had a very bright digital display. Hamilton didn’t have any watch in its catalog that met that criteria. So the brand took its military style watch, the Khaki Navy BelowZero, and found a way to integrate a digital screen into the dial. “It's really something he wanted to film and not create by computer,” Stauffer says. The mechanical movement was extracted from the watch and replaced with a digital one. And the watch was given a battery strong enough to power the bright display. “Technically speaking, to be honest, I don't even know how they made it,” says Stauffer. Hamilton eventually sent 25 to 30 watches to Nolan, all different enough to serve a variety of purposes throughout the movie. Some show different colors on the dials, others have the hour hands set to different places.
Stauffer is hopeful Hamilton will eventually drill down enough on the technology that the brand will be able to release a watch just like the one Pattinson and John David Washington wear in the movie. For now though, if you want the watch like the one worn by your favorite WWIII-preventing special agents, Hamilton has released a simplified version of the piece in the movie. The resulting piece is a black titanium Khaki Navy BelowZero that comes with either a red- or blue-tipped seconds hand.
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