Bond wears Omega. James Bond watch
James Bond (agent 007) has always been, is and will be an object of imitation for men and admiration for women. Everything he wears, everything he drives, everything he owns is impeccable. But you cannot become an ideal with a snap of your fingers. More than one person and more than one million dollars conjured the image of Bond. Remove the suit, take away the cars, keep women away from him and guess what? He'll still be Bond if he's wearing an Omega watch.
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Omega watches
007 Bond's first love was the Rolex Submariner. A strict, beautiful, elegant watch with a black bezel, the design of which is more than half a century old. IN different years among their features in the movies were bullet deflection, a powerful electromagnet, a bezel that turns into a saw, but in reality - luxury, water resistance and the fact that almost all true Bond fans dream of them.
Sean Connery as James Bond. Rolex watches
During his 33-year relationship with Rolex, Bond was caught cheating only a few times. Thus, in “Operation Thunderball” he was seen wearing a Breitling Top Time watch with a “Geiger counter”.
In Live and Let Die, the spy wore a Hamilton Pulsar P2 2900 with a red LED display. Unprecedented progress of that time. The writers decided that simply showing the time was enough for James Bond's watch. Well, they turned out to be right.
Roger Moore as James Bond. Hamilton watch
In 1977, the era of Seiko watches began, and it lasted until 1985. For five films in a row, Roger Moore (007) wore a watch that could print received messages, blow up the doors of spaceships, shoot poisonous arrows and broadcast video. It was perhaps the most capable Bond watch of its time. In Sparks from the Eyes, Timothy Dalton unexpectedly appeared for fans wearing a TAG Heuer or Heuer watch, suspiciously reminiscent of the already familiar Rolex Submariner, to which the filmmakers, in fact, returned in the next part, License to Kill.
Roger Moore as James Bond. Seiko watches
The turning point in the relationship between Bonds and watches was the year 1995. If at the beginning of Bond film crew had to beg watches for Agent 007 from manufacturers, then at the end of the 20th century the situation changed dramatically. Now the grandees of “time” fought for the right to become an accessory of the famous spy modernity. And the Omega brand won this fight.
First, James Bond tried on the Omega Seamaster Professional 300m watch with a laser beam, harpoon and remote detonator. And in the last two parts, Daniel Craig already wore the Seamaster Aqua Terra and the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m Co-Axial, which went perfectly with both a formal suit, and diving equipment. After all, their main feature is impact resistance and the ability to withstand depths of up to 600 meters. What else does Bond need to be happy?
Daniel Craig as James Bond. Omega watches
Strict, stylish, permeated with the spirit of adventure and reliability, watch for self-confident men.
In 2014, an Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra watch was put up for auction at Christie’s - the same watch worn by the charming agent 007 played by Daniel Craig. The rich yellow gold watch sold for 8 times its original price.
For a long time, movie fans associated Agent James Bond with Rolex watches, but since 1995, everything has changed. At this time, the Omega watch brand entered into a contract with the filmmakers.
Interestingly, in the film Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, there is a nostalgic dialogue between Bond and Vesper Lynd, who is trying to guess his watch brand. “Rolex?” Vesper asks. “Omega,” Bond answers. “Beautiful,” Vesper comments.
Rolex was Bond's original watch. They for a long time emblazoned on Sean Connery's wrist. He wore a Rolex Submariner in all series. The author of the secret agent story, Ian Fleming, was convinced that Bond “couldn’t just wear a watch, he had to wear a Rolex.”
Today it may seem strange, but Rolex never created models specifically for James Bond when creating watches and even refused to pay for product placement.
In 1995, Omega won the tender to create an official watch for the MI6 agent. Pierce Brosnan became the first Bond to appear on television wearing an Omega Seamaster Professional 300m watch with a laser beam and remote control for detonating devices.
Daniel Craig played the role of James Bond for the first time in 2006. He wore two watches. In Casino Royale, the agent wears a blue Omega seamaster 300m watch and a black Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m watch on a rubber strap, which can be worn deep underwater.
Fast cars, women, vodka martinis and expensive watches are mandatory attributes of all 007 agents. Will the new Bond not change watch brands as often as women? We'll see.
It will display Omega watch models, essential attribute the unique style of Agent 007, including the one that Bond wore in the 23rd Bond film “007: Skyfall”. The exhibition will also feature unique costumes, images that have become style classics, decorations, original photos and much more.
Omega and James Bond
Since the film “GoldenEye” (1995), Omega watches have become the constant assistant of the most popular superspy in confronting villains and resolving the most hopeless situations. James Bond is known to fans not only as a tireless adventurer - he is, without a doubt, a style icon. And this is where Omega watches and Agent 007 complement each other perfectly. Omega Seamaster watch - part of the standard equipment of MI6 agents with 00 prefixes (licensed to kill) - played important role in James Bond missions. This stylish and durable watch has become a reliable partner for its strong and confident owner, saving his life in numerous situations. unforeseen circumstances. The exhibition features the most famous Omega wristwatch worn by 007.
OmegaSeamaster 300 M, “Tomorrow Never Dies”, 1997
Pierce Brosnan's advanced James Bond watch, the Omega Seamaster 300M, featured a remote-controlled detonator triggered by turning the bezel. The super agent used his watch on the "stealth ship" owned by Eliot Carver and detonated a grenade in a glass jar; The explosion killed the criminal media mogul.
OmegaPythonwatch, “The World Is Not Enough”, 1999
The luminous markers and hands of the Omega Seamaster 300M dissipated the darkness under the avalanche that nearly claimed the lives of James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) and Elektra King. Finding himself at the bottom of a manhole in a nuclear bunker in Kazakhstan, Bond turns to one of Omega's most popular watches. He presses the helium valve and a miniature hook appears with a 15-meter microfiber rope capable of supporting up to 360 kg.
OmegaSeamasterAquaTerra, “007: Skyfall Coordinates”, 2012
The special watch can withstand underwater pressure of 15 bar and remains sealed at a depth of 150 meters. This shockproof model features a blue dial decorated with a teak wood pattern ( vertical lines imitating the design of yacht decks). The watch was the perfect complement to Daniel Craig's perfectly fitting James Bond suit.
Omega is the general partner of the exhibition “Design 007: 50 years of James Bond style”, organized as part of the Cross Year of Culture of Great Britain and Russia - 2014 with the support of the Moscow government and the Moscow Department of Culture and MAMM.
15/04/2003
But there was and is one more wonderful thing, without which James Bond would not have become himself, and films about him would not have been wildly popular for 40 years
This elegant gentleman, who is also a spy with a license to kill, hardly needs any introduction... This is Bond, James Bond - a charming handsome man, a courageous superspy number 007 and simply main character the world's favorite Bond movie.
Created by retired British intelligence officer Ian Fleming, the image of James Bond was doomed to success from the very beginning. Not only is he devilishly handsome, incomparably cool and amazingly lucky to have all sorts of adventures, but like any king, he is also surrounded by a proper retinue - irresistible girls, sports cars, expensive suits, layered vodka-martini cocktail.
But there was and is one more wonderful thing, without which James Bond would not have become himself, and films about him would not have been wildly popular for 40 years. This is a watch, a “cunning” watch. At the right moment, they are able to silently defeat an enemy, drill a hole in metal, send a message with lightning and... elegantly unbutton a woman’s dress.
Retired Colonel Fleming immediately realized that the watch could be used as a cunning container that hides a lot of spy stuff and is always on the hand. It is only important that the watch is also unusual and irresistible. In the 15th chapter “On secret service Her Majesty" Fleming wrote that James Bond had the most prestigious and expensive watch of that time - the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Chronometer - a chronometer with a perpetual calendar on a wide metal bracelet.
Therefore, on the set of the first film “Dr. No” (1962), the question of what would be on the superspy’s wrist did not arise. However, a funny thing happened: on the first day of filming, it turned out that Rolex simply forgot to provide their watches. So director Terence Young had to lend James Bond #1 - actor Sean Connery - his own Rolex.
Sean Connery's trinkets
In the end, Bond, of course, got hold of a real Rolex, but this only happened in the third film, “Goldfinger,” and, to be honest, this watch did not play any memorable role, and it did not have any “bells and whistles.” But much more stuck in my memory Wall Clock on board the plane, in which a secret peephole was made to monitor agent 007. But the attentive Bond, of course, exposed the treachery and elegantly threw his cloak over the watch - 1:0.
Having served as a cool trinket in the first Bond series, Rolex got down to business in the film Thunderball. It had nothing in common externally with the classic Oyster, but it measured the radioactive background. This Geiger counter fit comfortably on the actor's wrist and even showed the time.
Roger Moore Buttons
In the early 1970s, the technological innovations that Dr. Q came up with for Bond changed at the speed of thought. It was a time when agent 007 didn’t have to use his brain at all, but simply press the right buttons at the right time. In 1973, Roger Moore played the role of the charming agent 007. In the movie "Live and Let Die" he had two hours at once.
At the very beginning, he walks around with the ultra-fashionable electronic Pulsar, which remains the object of admiration for collectors even today. Firstly, they looked unusual, and secondly, there was a button on the side of them that activated the red backlight. No hands, a simple black dial and red numbers - for that time it was fantastic!
True, after 10 minutes a traditional Rolex appeared in the frame, but what a one! To put it mildly, the simple-looking watch emitted an intense magnetic field, so powerful that it deflected bullets flying at James Bond. But the hero did not always use the watch for its intended purpose. One day, for example, the Rolex magnetic field cleverly allowed the handsome guy to unzip his women's dress. Old Q did a great job!
SEIKO era
With Roger Moore in leading role The Bond movie became more and more exciting and popular. Its creators decided to reach a new level in equipment, and Rolex no longer fit into their plans. In The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), the superspy was armed with a Seiko watch. It cannot be said that they were much superior to Rolex in terms of being stuffed with sophisticated devices, but they served as a walkie-talkie and a computer. Seiko received messages addressed to Bond and instantly printed them, thus also performing the functions of a printer.
Two years later in "The Moon Thief" in a square case electronic watch Roger Moore had a detonator built into it. At the right moment Bond attached it to front door spaceship, and then, with the help of lightly pressing the red button on the watch case, he blew up the door and completed the mission. In another variation of the Seiko (but in the same film), Bond was equipped with a crossbow: when 007 gently pressed the strap, the watch fired poisonous arrows. Probably, this is where the imagination of Japanese watch designers ran out, and they asked the authors of the Bond film for a time out.
Seiko made its comeback in the film For Your Eyes Only. The super agent's watch combined the functions of a modern pager and walkie-talkie: it received text and audio messages. Nowadays such a device will not surprise anyone, but in 1981 it caused a real sensation. The audience probably also remembered the director's blunder: Bond unfastened his watch, put it on a cage with a parrot, which dropped it into the water. But when Bond took them out of the water, the strap was fastened. Or maybe it was just a self-fastening watch, and we didn’t appreciate the author’s idea?
In the movie "Octopussy" Seiko watches last time flashed on Agent 007's wrist. Bond used them as a locator and GPS. The watch picked up the signal from the “radio beacon” hidden in the Faberge jewelry egg and displayed on the dial the path along which the egg moved in the company of the enemies of progressive humanity. In the same film, the agent had the opportunity to test a watch with a built-in video camera in the laboratory.
Now these “bells and whistles” can only amaze an African shepherd, but the Seiko of that time had one, but absolutely incredible, modern concepts, dignity - Seiko did not pay a single yen for its placement on James Bond's wrist. Moreover, it is possible that in the early 70s the Japanese even made money from this themselves. Remember, this was an era of wild popularity quartz watch, against the backdrop of which are now so beloved and valued Swiss mechanical watches looked like antediluvian scrap metal.
Pierce Brosnan
It is unclear whether James Bond got tired of Seiko or if Agent 007 got tired of Seiko, which is less likely, but in the late 80s their fruitful collaboration came to an end. (This was due to the successful counter-offensive of the Swiss watch industry, which managed to prove to the consumer the “undignity” of quartz.) And the Bond movie itself, having reincarnated Superman a couple of times in the guise of Timothy Dalton, took a short break.
A new rise in the popularity of the film series began in 1995 with the film GoldenEye. The vacant agent position was filled by the impeccable Pierce Brosnan, and a spectacular Omega appeared on his wrist. New actor, as expected, brought the Bond movie to life, and the Omega Seamaster Professional watch with two built-in devices added elegance and adventurism to it.
Bond's watch simultaneously contained a laser located in a helium valve and a remote detonator for mines. Bond used a laser to make a hole in the floor of the train, and he used a detonator to destroy the control tower. By the way, in the movie “GoldenEye” the spy’s opponent also wears an Omega watch - only an older model, which is why he ultimately loses.
After GoldenEye, the triumph of the new agent 007 continued, and with it the success of Omega watches. In 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, Omega served Bond well again. He used the watch as a detonator to detonate a bomb on a media tycoon's ship. And in the penultimate film “The World Is Not Enough” (1999), Omega watches again had two additional functions: a powerful light source was built into the dial, and a mini-harpoon was installed in the case, which was fired at great speed, and the flight was controlled by the Seamaster bezel. By the way, as soon as the hook caught on the support, the bezel began to rotate in the opposite direction and lifted the agent.
Elegant, unique, charismatic, memorable and simply handsome man in the service of Her Majesty. After reading these lines, an immediate association arises with one of the heartthrobs of the screen - Bond, James Bond. Always in good physical shape, always looks 100%, always knows what needs to be done, and is always able to find a way out of a difficult situation. We can say that James Bond has become a kind of style icon that many people strive to imitate. They copy the style, habits, and try to purchase accessories used by agent 007.
First Bond, first watch
Among the many attributes that Bond enjoys are: Special attention is given wristwatch. From series to series, James Bond watches help to get out of the most incredible situations in which the main character finds himself. In addition, from time to time they have such incredible functions that timing is no longer their main task.
The first James Bond was a Rolex Submariner. For 15 years, they were an indispensable attribute of agent 007.
But in 1977, they were replaced by watches from the Japanese company Seiko, and already in the film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” model 0674 LC appears on Bond’s hand. This is perhaps the most progressive watch from the entire Bond series. They could print messages that came in, they could help James Bond blow open the doors of a spaceship, they could fire poison darts, and they could also broadcast video if necessary. lasted until 1985. After them, the model became James Bond's watch TAG Heuer. And after them, watches from Rolex returned again.
Seriously and for a long time
Ten years later, in 1995, a Swiss watch from Omega appeared on the hand of Her Majesty’s agent. From the film GoldenEye to the latest film adaptation Specter, which was released in 2015, James Bond has used the company's timepiece.
In the movie GoldenEye, Agent 007 tries on the Seamaster Professional 300m, which is stuffed with various spy gadgets. But after several episodes, the writers moved away from the idea of hiding various abilities that were not typical for them in the watch. And in subsequent series, James Bond watches became the Seamaster Aqua Terra and the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m Co-Axial, the main task of which is to accurately keep time. They cope with this very well and never let their owner down.
By the way, James Bond's "Omega" watch goes well with both strict business suit for social events, and with a diving suit.
Reliability and accuracy
Watches from the Swiss company Omega rightfully take their place on the wrist of the most famous fighter against criminals on a global scale. After all, they are accurate and reliable, shockproof and waterproof (can withstand depths of up to 600 meters).
The choice fell on Omega watches not by chance - after all, real life These watches are used in almost many areas where accuracy and reliability are required. These watches were used in deep-sea research - at a depth of 500 meters. They are applied in the national research office outer space NASA. It was the watch of this brand that was worn on the space suit of the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon. This was preceded by a strict selection: ten chronometers of various brands were purchased, after which multiple rigorous tests of these mechanisms were carried out in NASA laboratories. The only watch mechanism that passed all tests was the Omega watch mechanism. After which the Swiss company received a NASA certificate for space flights.
A record that remains unbroken
Back in 1936, Omega watches set a world record that has stood to this day, and no one has yet been able to break it. Kew Teddington Observatory held an accuracy competition. And Omega watches scored 97.8 points out of 100 possible in this competition. Thus, Omega has shown that the mechanism of their watches is almost perfect.
Stylish and strict, they are made for real men, and many representatives of the stronger sex would like to wear a James Bond watch on their wrist.
