Tom Hardy’s Venom watch and other famous wrists of the flicks, as seen in First Man, The Meg and many of Marvel’s movies

This week we’re going to look at watches in movies, primarily as a back door way of focusing on the acting talents of one Tom Hardy. You see, Tom has a film out at the moment called Venom , which, on the face of it, is quite ridiculous even for a comic book movie.

Panned by the critics, it is, however, brilliant. No, seriously. It is so silly it’s worth watching and that’s all down to Mr Hardy. It’s almost like he’s in a different movie, a rom­com if you will, from the rest of the cast, and at one point he even makes out with himself. Comedy genius.

There is a link to watches here and for once it’s relevant, in that Hardy is wearing a Bremont in the film, and insisted on doing so, and not for product placement reasons, apparently. Being the “method” sort of actor, Hardy felt that his character, a young scruffy tech journalist with a patchy employment record, would wear a Bremont.

Ordinarily I would cry cynicism, but Hardy is so eccentric a person I’m totally willing to believe he went that far into his research. The piece Hardy wears is the U-2/51-JET, a brooding black-case, black-dial and black-strap number inspired by aviation watches from the 1940s and 50s, which suggests Hardy liked all the black, but the timepiece is certainly a looker, with its distinctive blue hands and generous luminescence on the numerals.

Features wise, it only has a date window; the 43mm case comes in hardened steel and houses a modified BE-36AE movement with 38 hours of power reserve. The watch is priced at HK$38,950.

From Hardy we move on to another British actor, one who isn’t half as interesting as his name – Benedict Cumberbatch. Despite his impressive thespian credentials, his stint as Sherlock and that recent turn as Patrick Melrose, Cumberbatch is most famous for playing Doctor Strange in the Marvel cinematic universe.