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VENTURE Equipment Craig was given his first Omega watch by his dad on his 18th birthday. It took 34 years – and him becoming 007 – before he got the chance to design his own There’s a moment in Daniel Craig’s first outing as James Bond – the 2006 movie Casino Royale – when British Treasury agent Vesper Lynd, played by Eva Green, attempts to get a read on 007. “Rolex?” she enquires of the inscrutable secret agent’s taste in watches. “Omega,” he corrects her. This is a defining moment that sets apart Craig’s fresh take on the famous spy from earlier, stuffier incarnations. In truth, 007 has worn an Omega ever since Pierce Brosnan’s Bond debut in 1995’s GoldenEye, though his connection with the Swiss watch Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale, sporting an Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m WEAR Timepiece to die for Omega Seamaster Diver 300m ‘007 Edition’ manufacturer – and specifically the Seamaster line – goes back further. When author Ian Fleming created the suave secret agent, he drew inspiration from real commandos he’d met during his WWII posting with the British Naval Intelligence Division, making Bond a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. In 1957, when Omega released the first Seamaster 300, it was based on the waterproof wristwatches worn by the British military in WWII; the rubber O-ring gasket was even inspired by submarines of the time. The timepiece proved a hit with British naval divers, and by 1967 the Ministry of Defence had commissioned Omega to produce a ‘mil-spec’ (military specification) version, engraved ‘0552’ on the back to designate it the property of the Navy. Come 1995, when 007 costume designer Lindy Hemming was kitting out Brosnan for GoldenEye, she decided that “Commander Bond, a naval man, diver and a discreet gentleman of the world, would wear the Seamaster with the blue dial”. There has been a Seamaster 300 on Bond’s wrist ever since. To mark Craig’s final outing as the stylish spy – this year’s No Time To Die – Omega created this 42mm Seamaster Diver 300 ‘007 Edition’, constructed from Grade 2 titanium, in collaboration with the actor himself. “I had some suggestions and they ran with it,” says Craig. “When Omega showed me titanium watches in the past, I always thought, ‘Wow, it’s like you’re not even wearing a watch.’ They said, ‘Let’s make it.’ We’re talking about a difference of grams, but it’s incredibly comfortable.” Craig’s influence also extended to its alternative NATO strap – “I’ve been doing that for years, sticking them on NATO straps” – and ensuring military authenticity: “You have that heritage with Omega and the British army watches of the Second World War,” he says. “All those things I wanted to connect through, they’ve done it.” Most telling is the serial number on the caseback, which features an ‘A’ (denoting a screw-in crown); the selfexplanatory ‘007’; ’62’ (the year of the first Bond film, Dr No); ‘923 7697’ (which identifies it as a diver’s watch); and ‘0552’, the mark of a true naval commander’s timepiece. omegawatches.com TIM KENT, OMEGA TOM GUISE 74 THE RED BULLETIN
VENTURE Equipment XX EDITOR ILLUSTRATOR Omega created the new watch to mark Craig’s final outing as Bond THE RED BULLETIN 75
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