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

While the James Bond movie franchise has been embodying the gold normal of attractive espionage-adventure films since 1962, OMEGA Seamaster timepieces have been worn on display screen and in promotions by actors enjoying Bond since 1995. Totally different incarnations of Agent 007 have worn numerous OMEGA Seamaster fashions as they combat Bond villains, romance Bond beauties and emerge from near-death experiences to save lots of the world in daring Bond fashion— and reside 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 smart 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 huge. As Craig famous in an OMEGA press launch, “When working with OMEGA, we determined {that a} light-weight watch can be key for a navy man like 007. I additionally recommended some classic touches and shade to offer 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 arms and indexes. (After ample publicity to daylight or synthetic mild, the 42 mm Seamaster 007 version will glow at the hours of darkness, on land or below 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 robust and light-weight, this watch is right 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 exhausting 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 the entire 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 indicate 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 on the market 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 introduced 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 serious showdown. A masterful spy, highly effective athlete and exquisite black lady: 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 sporting 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 lady totally in her energy, and but weak,” 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 consider in as a human being.” Having famous that, “The Seamaster that Nomi wears feels very mild on the wrist, so I usually forgot it was there when had been had been filming.” Every time she did register its presence, nonetheless, “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 superb 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 expertise 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 save lots of the day, and on time. Based in 1848 and owned by the Switzerland-based Swatch Group, OMEGA performs a distinguished and intriguing function within the narrative of heritage timepieces. No Time To Die and different James Bond movies are destined to reside on for many years, and maybe centuries, their shifting photographs flickering fearlessly by way of time and house.