I had no idea either until I mentioned it in the Omega store that there was a lot of spare bracelet and they mentioned it to me I thought it was one size fits all. Luckily they had one in stock I could try for size.
Cheers 😄
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
I’m pretty sure that Tag was his personal watch, he has it in the Fourth Protocol and there’s a scene with him spinning the bezel, then it pops up in the detonator series he was in and I’m fairly certain in Dantes Peak as well. I always thought it was cool looking but never knew what it was until the Dalton watch came out.
Farers are really properly designed watches: everything about them is considered perfectly, I think they're great. I think their new white chrono sport looks excellent.
I didn't realise but I worked with one of the founders a few years back. I did some work for a company he had set up and was surprised to find Farer taking up the upper floor of the office!
This is my interpretation of the literary Bond watch as a modern daily wearer; it's a SMITHS PRS-25 Everest on a Speidel Wide One Series expansion band. There's plenty written about how the ROLEX Explorer 1016 is likely to have been the literary Bond watch, and the SMITHS Everest model by Timefactors is a pretty direct homage to the 1016 (Timefactors in the UK bought the rights to the defunct brand SMITHS and currently produces early ROLEX homages and SMITHS reissues/updates along with other watches). I'd love to have used a vintage ROLEX 1016 but there's no way I'm living daily life with $20k-$30k on my wrist to get lost/stolen/damaged. I picked the SMITHS Everest model for this because the brand has an online reputation for decent quality (it's build quality appears on-par with Hamiltons I've owned), a SMITHS wristwatch accompanied Hillary and Norgay to the top of Mount Everest along with a ROLEX pre-Explorer (long story; Google it), and a SMITHS appears in the movie 'Goldfinger'. In one of the last scenes, after Goldfinger has been sucked out of the airplane sending Bond and Pussy Galore into a nose dive, there's a two-second close-up shot of a SMITHS air pressure gauge where the logo can be seen. Back in the 1960s, SMITHS manufactured instrument gauges in addition to wristwatches and one of them made it into the movie, officially establishing the most tenuous wristwatch brand connection in the entire James Bond movie franchise. 🙂
Nice Albion2811. I like the look of those Smiths Everest watches.
As for other Bond connections to the name, there is also a Smiths gauge visible at the end of Spectre when Bond and Madeleine drive off in the DB5, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are other examples elsewhere in the series.
I've also seen speculation from time to time about the dress watch that Connery wears in the casino scene in Dr No, and one of the suggestions is that it could be a Smiths. But this is, of course, just speculation.
Good choice @Albion2811 Agree it's very close to the (probable) 1016 described by Fleming.
I own A Timefactors Smiths Caribbean and I'm very happy with it. I've put it through a fair bit and has always performed well. With it's 12 hour bezel, it also serves as a GMT and is my go to SPECTRE watch ;-)
@Golrush007 Good catch spotting the Spectre gauge. I've added that to the graphic below. I guess SMITHS is the unofficial preferred brand of instrument gauges in Bond films. 🙂
@emtiem Yeah, I bought my SMITHS second-hand; ordering through their website seemed too tricky.
@The Red Kind I'm very pleased with the quality of the SMITHS Everest, especially for the cost. The SMITHS Caribbean (or Commander) may be a future acquisition for the reasons you suggest.
I've been informed that a third SMITHS gauge is visible in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' when Bond and Triple X flee in the escape pod as Stromberg's lair is sunk at the end of the movie. I don't intend to continue updating this here but, with at least three appearances in the Bond films, it does speak to the ubiquity of the SMITHS brand in the UK back in the day.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." -Ian Fleming
This thread is for discussing watches, not Aston Martin dashboard dials, so I'll bring it back on topic with a watch inspired by...er...Aston Martin dashboard dials:
Finally picked the grail of a watch I have wanted for decades the vintage Seamaster 300 no date the more military version with a balanced face. There were some of these battered and kicking around when I joined the military nearly 40 years ago. I wished I had known then what they would have been worth later, but the fixed spring bars seemed a pain for other watch straps and made no sense other that in the Mil.
I know it is likely a watchco version but I am cool with that it will see me out. i wanted a newer one I can build a history with, if I bought a true vintage watch I would have had it brought up to date anyway at a fair cost. I just love it on my issue NATO. Crazy thing is it’s the one vintage watch Omega has never reissued yet it’s the most popular amongst collectors.
This is the watch Commander Bond should have been wearing in NTTD in my humble opinion at least you can clearly see the time in the dark (those who own the NTTD SM 300 will know what I mean comparing these hands to the skeleton ones on that). This is a real dive watch!
Cheers😎
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
I will thanks - but of course anyone who knows me will know I just need a good condition ‘Big Triangle face to complete the project, but this will do for now!
Cheers 😎
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
I take it you have the XL Planet Ocean ? I think , Seamaster 300 aside, that it's as near perfect for the Bond watch and outside on Bond it's just a beauty. I wore my PO in the Mil and gave it a beasting and its still looking good. I'm lucky enough to have a Sub 114060 and a number of CWC divers and they are all great bed fellows. Enjoy the watch, a beauty.
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No problem, my Wrist size is 7 1/4 inches (18cm)
I had no idea either until I mentioned it in the Omega store that there was a lot of spare bracelet and they mentioned it to me I thought it was one size fits all. Luckily they had one in stock I could try for size.
Cheers 😄
Hello fellow watch pornographers. Has this watch Pierce wore during his aborted Bond hiring in the '80s ever been identified?
Hi, looks to me like the TAG Heuer Night-Diver Timothy Dalton was wearing in TLD.
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Continuity? Wowsers haha
Thanks for that. Im a touch over 7inches so very useful.
PS - is the 60th anniversary version sold out or still available? Really taking a shine to it since blue lol
It‘s just that it would have been Pierce who wore the Tag Heuer in the movie instead of Timothy.
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Whoops. Of course!!
I’m pretty sure that Tag was his personal watch, he has it in the Fourth Protocol and there’s a scene with him spinning the bezel, then it pops up in the detonator series he was in and I’m fairly certain in Dantes Peak as well. I always thought it was cool looking but never knew what it was until the Dalton watch came out.
It's close and has the same PVD jubilee bracelet, but Brosnan's dial is different than Dalton's, which has a full lume dial:
(Funnily enough, Dalton's exact Night Diver from the LIVING DAYLIGHTS PTS is worn by Felix Leiter later in the same film.)
There's one close to Dalton's on Poshmark.
Hi all,
There is a steel option available for this strap. Does it come in different sizes (lengths) like the titanium one does?
I'm looking at purchasing an older sword hands Omega model and purchasing a steel mesh strap to wear with it.
I have narrow wrists (about 6.5in) so would most likely need a small version if available.
Any advice is much appreciated.
Cheers!
Yes, it comes in three sizes. You need the small. But make sure you get the spring bars with it as the standard ones already in the watch don’t fit.
😍
lovely watch, thank you for sharing and thanks for the information.
I assume I can ask them to include some spring bars with the strap? (certified watch novice here!)
One further question, do they usually stock all sizes or would I need to request one?
Cheers 🍸️
New collaboration between The Rake & Bell & Ross;
https://therake.com/stories/the-rake-x-bell-ross-bellytanker-vesper/
I still think the Farer Endeavour is a cool watch and one I could see a real life operative wearing 'out in the field';
https://farer.com/products/endeavour?variation=A&utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=ov-gu9Oojldi5fIPgSVdUb5fymYpKkDG4TY2a69Rh50%3D.SJsfyX
Here's something interesting for anybody who has ever wondered about depth ratings on watches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvp-uk1zMa4
-Mr Arlington Beech
Farers are really properly designed watches: everything about them is considered perfectly, I think they're great. I think their new white chrono sport looks excellent.
I didn't realise but I worked with one of the founders a few years back. I did some work for a company he had set up and was surprised to find Farer taking up the upper floor of the office!
This is my interpretation of the literary Bond watch as a modern daily wearer; it's a SMITHS PRS-25 Everest on a Speidel Wide One Series expansion band. There's plenty written about how the ROLEX Explorer 1016 is likely to have been the literary Bond watch, and the SMITHS Everest model by Timefactors is a pretty direct homage to the 1016 (Timefactors in the UK bought the rights to the defunct brand SMITHS and currently produces early ROLEX homages and SMITHS reissues/updates along with other watches). I'd love to have used a vintage ROLEX 1016 but there's no way I'm living daily life with $20k-$30k on my wrist to get lost/stolen/damaged. I picked the SMITHS Everest model for this because the brand has an online reputation for decent quality (it's build quality appears on-par with Hamiltons I've owned), a SMITHS wristwatch accompanied Hillary and Norgay to the top of Mount Everest along with a ROLEX pre-Explorer (long story; Google it), and a SMITHS appears in the movie 'Goldfinger'. In one of the last scenes, after Goldfinger has been sucked out of the airplane sending Bond and Pussy Galore into a nose dive, there's a two-second close-up shot of a SMITHS air pressure gauge where the logo can be seen. Back in the 1960s, SMITHS manufactured instrument gauges in addition to wristwatches and one of them made it into the movie, officially establishing the most tenuous wristwatch brand connection in the entire James Bond movie franchise. 🙂
Nice Albion2811. I like the look of those Smiths Everest watches.
As for other Bond connections to the name, there is also a Smiths gauge visible at the end of Spectre when Bond and Madeleine drive off in the DB5, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are other examples elsewhere in the series.
I've also seen speculation from time to time about the dress watch that Connery wears in the casino scene in Dr No, and one of the suggestions is that it could be a Smiths. But this is, of course, just speculation.
Yes I was going to say that I bet the DB5 had Smiths dials! They were very common on cars of that age.
I think your PRS looks very handsome. I tried to buy one myself but gave up after a couple of tries on their terrible website! 😄
Good choice @Albion2811 Agree it's very close to the (probable) 1016 described by Fleming.
I own A Timefactors Smiths Caribbean and I'm very happy with it. I've put it through a fair bit and has always performed well. With it's 12 hour bezel, it also serves as a GMT and is my go to SPECTRE watch ;-)
Smiths dials were fitted in the DB5;
And DBS;
@Golrush007 Good catch spotting the Spectre gauge. I've added that to the graphic below. I guess SMITHS is the unofficial preferred brand of instrument gauges in Bond films. 🙂
@emtiem Yeah, I bought my SMITHS second-hand; ordering through their website seemed too tricky.
@The Red Kind I'm very pleased with the quality of the SMITHS Everest, especially for the cost. The SMITHS Caribbean (or Commander) may be a future acquisition for the reasons you suggest.
I've been informed that a third SMITHS gauge is visible in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' when Bond and Triple X flee in the escape pod as Stromberg's lair is sunk at the end of the movie. I don't intend to continue updating this here but, with at least three appearances in the Bond films, it does speak to the ubiquity of the SMITHS brand in the UK back in the day.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." -Ian Fleming
SMITHS gauges were also installed in the Vulcan in TB of course.
And the Daylights Aston as well, as you can see here:
I'm also going to add this photo because it's very cool:
This thread is for discussing watches, not Aston Martin dashboard dials, so I'll bring it back on topic with a watch inspired by...er...Aston Martin dashboard dials:
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/atelier-jalaper-wristwatch-piece-authentic-aston-martin-db5-bonnet
Finally picked the grail of a watch I have wanted for decades the vintage Seamaster 300 no date the more military version with a balanced face. There were some of these battered and kicking around when I joined the military nearly 40 years ago. I wished I had known then what they would have been worth later, but the fixed spring bars seemed a pain for other watch straps and made no sense other that in the Mil.
I know it is likely a watchco version but I am cool with that it will see me out. i wanted a newer one I can build a history with, if I bought a true vintage watch I would have had it brought up to date anyway at a fair cost. I just love it on my issue NATO. Crazy thing is it’s the one vintage watch Omega has never reissued yet it’s the most popular amongst collectors.
This is the watch Commander Bond should have been wearing in NTTD in my humble opinion at least you can clearly see the time in the dark (those who own the NTTD SM 300 will know what I mean comparing these hands to the skeleton ones on that). This is a real dive watch!
Cheers😎
Beautiful. Enjoy.
I will thanks - but of course anyone who knows me will know I just need a good condition ‘Big Triangle face to complete the project, but this will do for now!
Cheers 😎
If only they had put broad hands on the NTTD SMP it would have been near perfect immo MOD watch (plus a serrated bezel).
I give you the old and the new.
Cheers 😎
I take it you have the XL Planet Ocean ? I think , Seamaster 300 aside, that it's as near perfect for the Bond watch and outside on Bond it's just a beauty. I wore my PO in the Mil and gave it a beasting and its still looking good. I'm lucky enough to have a Sub 114060 and a number of CWC divers and they are all great bed fellows. Enjoy the watch, a beauty.