diff --git a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/impl/watch/DebuggerTree.java b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/impl/watch/DebuggerTree.java
index b9ac30c5c6c8..1e3048069631 100644
--- a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/impl/watch/DebuggerTree.java
+++ b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/impl/watch/DebuggerTree.java
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ public abstract class DebuggerTree extends DebuggerTreeBase implements DataProvi
 
         if (thisObjectReference != null && evaluationContext.getDebugProcess().getVirtualMachineProxy().canGetSyntheticAttribute())  {
           final ReferenceType thisRefType = thisObjectReference.referenceType();
-          if (thisRefType instanceof ClassType && thisRefType.name().contains("$")) { // makes sense for nested classes only
+          if (thisRefType instanceof ClassType && thisRefType.equals(location.declaringType()) && thisRefType.name().contains("$")) { // makes sense for nested classes only
             final ClassType clsType = (ClassType)thisRefType;
             for (Field field : clsType.fields()) {
               if (field.isSynthetic() && StringUtil.startsWith(field.name(), FieldDescriptorImpl.OUTER_LOCAL_VAR_FIELD_PREFIX)) {