In 1996, Brian De Palma's Mission Impossible arrived in theaters as a modern re-imagination of the classic 1960s television show. Much like Martin Scorsese did when creating a sequel to The Hustler (1961) with The Color of Money (1986), De Palma cast Tom Cruise as the fresh blood in a known universe. Cruise portrayed a new MI character named Ethan Hunt. The film was a hit, and the rest is history. So much so that today we're looking at the fourth installment of the movie series, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011), directed by Brad Bird of Pixar fame (for what it's worth, we are now staring down the barrel of eight MI films).
This timepiece was released in 2010 at Baselworld and pays homage to the groovy Tudor watches of the 1970s. Design standouts on this one are the pronounced Tudor shield emblem, sparse call text, angular sub-register framing, orange coloration, and screw-down crown/pushers (for water resistance). It's always struck me since the Tudor design variation within the Paul Newman Daytona.