Top Gun (1986) is without a doubt, Tom’s career-defining project. In the aviation film, Tom played Maverick, a fighter-pilot-in-training. Most people assume that he was wearing an IWC watch in many of the scenes, because the Swiss watchmaker has issued Top Gun-branded timepieces over the years. The truth is that IWC Top Gun watches were named after the U.S. Navy’s Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (which inspired the film), and that Tom was actually wearing a Porsche Design Orfina timepiece. |