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Jason Momoa’s Watch Stole the Show at The Wrecking Crew Premiere

Jason Momoa’s Watch Stole the Show at The Wrecking Crew Premiere

While Jason Momoa has been spotted in the usual horological suspects—Rolex Daytona, Cartier Tank, etc.—some more unusual choices have also graced his wrist. Being a serious Leica camera fan, he’s rocked the gold ZM1, for example—a watch that doesn’t get much love from the mainstream celebrity watch-wearing community. Now, however, even that timepiece seems pedestrian next to the rare gem he strapped on for the UK premiere of his new film The Wrecking Crew. Witness Momoa in all his pink corduroy-clad glory—astride a black Harley, no less—and wearing a vintage Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, perhaps his hardest-hitting timepiece yet. The Fifty Fathoms, after all, was one of the first dive watches produced at a commercial scale in the early 1950s alongside the Rolex Submariner and the Zodiac Sea-Wolf. But that’s not all, you see. The Fifty Fathoms was also a widely-issued military watch, with variants used by France’s Marine Nationale, Germany’s Bundeswehr, the U.S. Navy, and others. In fact, it was Captain Bob Maloubier, a French veteran of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World …

The Wrecking Crew review: Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa’s action comedy has mega body count but no real peril

The Wrecking Crew review: Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa’s action comedy has mega body count but no real peril

A star rating of 3 out of 5. It’s a bad week to be a faceless goon in this ’80s-style action comedy with a mega body count but no real peril. Dave Baustisa and Jason Momoa star as estranged half-brothers James and Johnny reunited after the death of their father in an apparent hit and run. Bautista is a well-respected Navy Seal and family man living in Hawaii while Momoa is a disgraced cop and all-round wastrel living in Oklahoma, returning to Honolulu under duress. It’s not going to be an easy ride for the pair, who are being hunted by the Yakuza who are seeking a mysterious package, as well as Hawaiian gang the Syndicate, who have serious beef with Jonny and give him seven days to leave the island before they come for his head. Not that there’s much tension here – Bautista and Momoa are big lads (they look like “the Rock f***ed himself and gave birth to twins” according to one character) and in this they are virtually indestructible, swatting henchmen …