What Time Is It There? (2001) on Netflix

Plot summary

A watch seller in Taipei, Hsiao-Kang works a pavement stand and carries his stock in a briefcase. His father has just died. Shiang-chyi comes to the stand the day before a trip to Paris, wanting a watch that shows the time in two cities. The one she likes is on his wrist, and he has no others like it. He tells her a recent death in his family would bring her bad luck, and he will not sell it, though he gives her his phone number in case he finds another. She is persistent, and on the day of her departure she gets him to part with it. In Paris she cannot speak French and spends her time alone in her hotel room and around the city, while he begins changing the clocks he encounters to Paris time.