Horology cipher code#

In this website you will find many useful references to antiques and collecting, watch and clock repair, the development of timekeeping and calendars through the. This code applies to the repair, restoration and conservation of clocks, watches and other horological items. Horology is the science of measuring time and the art of making timepieces. Luckily, the guys from the Watches in Movies website have a special section for TV shows. Welcome to Horology - The Index - the most extensive collection of horological resources on the internet.

Horology cipher series#

Although I have seen all episodes, I did not spot a JLC Reverso though, but I am assured it was in there.Īlthough watches in movies have been covered a lot on various websites and watch forums, it seems that information about watches in TV Series are a bit scattered. Watch brands can exaggerate a bit, but in the case of Jaeger-LeCoulte and their Mad Men special (restricted to 25 pieces only, to be released in February), this isn’t the case. Is this product placement a bad thing? Of course not! Times are just changing and people pay attention to these details.

Horology cipher movie#

To demonstrate how these things change during the years, The Miami Vice movie that was done just a few years ago though, had IWC watches all over the place and was clearly sponsored. In gold/steel of course, that’s how they rolled in the 1980s. Although Don Johnson is well known for wearing a (fake) gold Rolex Day-Date, he also wore an Ebel 1911 chronograph with a Zenith El Primero movement. I am convinced that Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) was wearing Rolex watches from his personal collection.Īnother famous TV show from back in the days is Miami Vice. I am not sure whether this TV show (with +180 episodes) aired outside Europe though. We did a special report on Derrick and his watches in 2005 already, click here to read it. Inspector Derrick always wore a fine watch (Rolex and in some occasions an IWC DaVinci). The same goes for a German 1980s and 1990s krimi called Derrick. I am pretty sure that the watch featured in A-Team wasn’t sponsored by OMEGA or a jeweler. Faceman is setting the watch on the next picture. Was this always the case? One of our avid readers – Johan – sent us a screen shot of the second part of A-Team’s pilot episode Mexican Slayride from 1983. Tim Dunigan plays ‘Faceman’ instead of Dirk Benedict (who started from the 3rd episode) and wears an OMEGA Geneve (Megaquartz), which – I guess – was already out of production by that time. So it seems that watch manufacturers are pretty aware of the fact that you are eagle eyeing the watches in TV shows. And although Don Draper wore a Rolex Explorer in HBO’s Mad Men TV series, Jaeger-LeCoultre recently released a Mad Men special ‘Mad about Reverso’ that features a Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce logo engraved in the reversible back side of the watch. Watches in TV series, we all know you have been trying to identify Jerry Seinfeld’s Breitling (or Cartier), Kim Kardashian’s AP Royal Oak (or Scott Disick’s), Dexter’s Timex, Charlie’s Rolex Yacht-Master and Tony Soprano’s Rolex Day-Date.