Three OMEGA Watches Star In New James Bond Film, ‘No Time To Die’

While the James Bond movie franchise has been embodying the gold customary of horny espionage-adventure films since 1962, OMEGA Seamaster timepieces have been worn on display and in promotions by actors enjoying Bond since 1995. Completely different incarnations of Agent 007 have worn numerous OMEGA Seamaster fashions as they struggle Bond villains, romance Bond beauties and emerge from near-death experiences to avoid wasting the world in daring Bond model— and stay to like once more. No Time To Die, launched within the U.S. on October 8, is the twenty fifth official Bond movie. Together with injecting the franchise with new vigor, the movie pulls off an historic horological hat trick. Daniel Craig as James Bond, plus actors Lashana Lynch (who performs super-skilled, undercover agent Nomi) and Naomie Harris (because the clever and witty MI6 secretary Moneypenny), all put on OMEGA timepieces.

In No Time To Die, Daniel Craig’s James Bond wears a Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Grasp Chronometer that measures 42 mm large. As Craig famous in an OMEGA press launch, “When working with OMEGA, we determined {that a} light-weight watch could be key for a army man like 007. I additionally instructed some classic touches and shade to present the watch a novel edge.” To lower weight and promote a classic look, OMEGA selected brown aluminum for the dial and bezel ring. These parts imbue the watch with a quasi-retro character, whereas Tremendous-LumiNova glow-in-the-dark pigments illuminate the diving scale, blackened palms and indexes. (After ample publicity to daylight or synthetic gentle, the 42 mm Seamaster 007 version will glow at nighttime, on land or underneath water, for a number of hours.)

Whereas each the case and the mesh bracelet of the 42 mm Seamaster 007 version are product of Grade 2 titanium, the bracelet options an ergonomic, adjustable buckle. Since titanium is powerful and light-weight, this watch is good for James Bond and others who cope with life’s challenges, get knocked out but rise heroically and get again within the ring to take one other swing. For these causes, the Seamaster 007 is appropriate for anybody of any age or gender who works laborious and/or performs tougher.

Inside, the Seamaster 007 is pushed by the highly effective OMEGA Co-Axial Grasp Chronometer Calibre 8806. This motion is characterised by unerring precision, chronometric efficiency and magnetic resistance. The watch additionally embodies a NAIAD LOCK case again, which holds all the engravings in appropriate alignment. Concerning the numbers discovered on the case again, their numerical sequence follows the format for real military-issue watches. For instance, “0552” is the code-number for Navy personnel, and “923 7697” symbolizes the quantity for a diver’s watch. Whereas the letter “A” is a code used to suggest a watch with a screw-in crown, “007” is in fact James Bond’s agent quantity. What’s extra, the quantity “62” references 1962, the 12 months that Dr. No, the primary James Bond movie, had its world premiere in London. (The movie was launched within the U.S. in 1963). The Seamaster 007 version is accessible within the titanium mesh bracelet, or on a striped NATO strap in darkish brown, gray and beige with 007 engraved on the loop. The watches are offered in an unique brown cloth pouch bearing the OMEGA and 007 logos.

As for the females who sport OMEGA watches in No Time To Die, Lashana Lynch, who performs MI6 agent Nomi in No Time To Die, talked with this author by way of ZOOM about how her Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M seamlessly supported her character. (A little bit of again story: Nomi has proved herself such an efficient agent that the MI6 service assigns her James Bond’s 007 designation whereas he’s in exile. Later, when Bond is again in 007 mode, Nomi fights valiantly alongside him in a significant showdown. A masterful spy, highly effective athlete and exquisite black girl: shapeshifting Nomi embodies types of Black excellence hardly ever portrayed in mainstream cinematic characters.

Lynch, who wore an 18-karat gold OMEGA Constellation 29mm in OMEGA’s proprietary Sedna rose gold alloy throughout our interview, associated, “I like this watch. I do know it’s valuable, as a result of it’s an OMEGA.” However as a result of we had been there to debate Nomi and her Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M, Lynch associated how carrying the watch affected her efficiency. “Nomi is a crucial character within the movie, and within the Bond franchise, as a result of she is a robust, expert black girl absolutely in her energy, and but susceptible,” Lynch started. “I really feel grateful for the chance to play somebody like her as a result of in that function, I may stand in what I imagine in as a human being.” Having famous that, “The Seamaster that Nomi wears feels very gentle on the wrist, so I typically forgot it was there when had been had been filming.” Each time she did register its presence, nevertheless, “I felt prefer it was supporting me,” she continued, “as a result of it helped me do a greater job.”

The opposite star in No Time to Die whose OMEGA helps her obtain the platonic preferrred of action-adventure-espionage excellence is Naomie Harris, who portrays the ever-engaging and indomitable Miss Moneypenny. Sporting an OMEGA DeVille Prestige quartz 27.4MM watch, Moneypenny is secretary to M, who’s James Bond’s superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. As well-known for her govt abilities as she is for her flirtatious badinage with Commander Bond, Moneypenny and her watch each exemplify and venture peak skilled excellence.

Serving the UK’s Queen and international locations, combating like twenty first century samurais and residing by their wits with the best poise, James Bond, Nomi and Moneypenny all heroically keep on kind to avoid wasting the day, and on time. Based in 1848 and owned by the Switzerland-based Swatch Group, OMEGA performs a outstanding and intriguing function within the narrative of heritage timepieces. No Time To Die and different James Bond movies are destined to stay on for many years, and maybe centuries, their transferring photos flickering fearlessly by time and house.