There aren’t aliens or supernatural creatures.
Basically, it’s Robinson Crusoe in space… on Mars (with, of course, all of Earth rallying for the rescue of one dude). If you aren’t familiar with the plot of The Martian, let me explain it to you. I hope that Matt Damon’s Mark Watney character wears the Hamilton Khaki Navy BelowZero (a bit better like that, right?) watch while trying to survive on Mars.
Inside the watch is a Swiss ETA 2826 automatic movement. This reference H78585333 all black “phantom” version comes in 46mm-wide steel case with a rotating diver’s bezel. As a diving watch, the Hamilton Below Zero (sorry, I just can’t keep writing “BeLOWZERO…” I don’t want to “be a lowzero!”) is water resistant to 1000 meters (with a helium escape valve and 5.6mm-thick sapphire crystal) and should probably handle the depths of space pretty well. It was actually a clever choice for the producers to pick, even if Hamilton probably wanted them to choose a newer model. The Hamilton Khaki Navy BeLOWZERO does tend to fit the interesting aesthetics of the movie, its gear, vehicles, and structures.
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With that said, it is still up to the movie makers what watches to use – and sometimes they just ask watch makers they work with (like Hamilton) to create something unique. You see, Hamilton has a nice reputation among movie makers as a friendly watch brand to work with. I am pretty sure it wasn’t Hamilton’s idea to include such an old model, but rather the wishes of The Martian‘s producers. Those who know watches will probably be asking themselves “isn’t that a relatively old (though modern) Hamilton watch?” That’s true, actually, as the Hamilton Khaki Navy Below Zero (as it was more logically called back then – what exactly does “BeLOWZERO” mean, exactly?) was originally released in around 2008 ( check our aBlogtoWatch article on the Hamilton Khaki Navy Below Zero watch here from years back).