Joel's analog wristwatch is permanently shattered, but he continues to wear it on his wrist every single day.

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In the heartbreaking opening episode, Joel's teenage daughter Sarah gifts him a watch, which is later violently broken during the chaotic outbreak that claims her life. Decades later, living as a hardened, ruthless survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, Joel still wears the shattered, non-functioning watch every day. It serves as a constant, tragic physical reminder that his emotional capacity to love essentially stopped the exact night he lost his child.

Joel's analog wristwatch is permanently shattered, but he continues to wear it on his wrist every single day. in The Last of Us

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