New Omega PO Bond Watch
Discussion
Looks like the Omega/Bond tie in shows no signs of slowing down - they've announced the Seamaster Planet Ocean Skyfall Edition.
Limited to 5,007 pieces, it has the 007 logo engraved on the clasp, the rotor and at the 7 o'clock marker. Also looks to have a different face. Everything else bar those details is standard PO mk2 42mm.
Limited to 5,007 pieces, it has the 007 logo engraved on the clasp, the rotor and at the 7 o'clock marker. Also looks to have a different face. Everything else bar those details is standard PO mk2 42mm.
Mr Happy said:
No, not at all - I think it's pretty tacky too...
Selling the actual variant of the watch that Bond wears on screen is one thing, modifying that watch to have the logos etc is something entirely different.
That's exactly how I feel about it. They should design a watch for the film and then sell that model - as a limited edition if they want to command a good price - but the 007 logo ruins it for me.Selling the actual variant of the watch that Bond wears on screen is one thing, modifying that watch to have the logos etc is something entirely different.
rhinochopig said:
Mr Happy said:
No, not at all - I think it's pretty tacky too...
Selling the actual variant of the watch that Bond wears on screen is one thing, modifying that watch to have the logos etc is something entirely different.
That's exactly how I feel about it. They should design a watch for the film and then sell that model - as a limited edition if they want to command a good price - but the 007 logo ruins it for me.Selling the actual variant of the watch that Bond wears on screen is one thing, modifying that watch to have the logos etc is something entirely different.
High end Swiss watch manufacturer raises prices to a level to compete with rival premium brand whose name begins with "R". Then plasters the logo of a fictitious literary figure on its newly very-expensive watch to signify a commercial tie-in with a film about the pretend man in the hope that 15-year-old schoolboys or regressive adults who want people to think they work for MI5 will buy it.
Omega are not alone in doing this. IWC have ruined a perfectly good watch by associating it with Top Gun and Miramar - not strictly the film but the training school itself. Still, it will be forever associated with the film.
Associations like this may appeal to 16 year olds but not many of them have £10k or so to spend on a watch!
Skier
Associations like this may appeal to 16 year olds but not many of them have £10k or so to spend on a watch!
Skier
Edited by Skier on Monday 11th June 14:00
Skier said:
Omega are not alone in doing this. IWC have ruined a perfectly good watch by associateing it with Top Gun and Miramar - not strictly the film but the training school itself. Still, it will be forever associated with the film.
In fact given neither Top Gun nor NAS Miramar exist anymore (the former has been absorbed into another advanced flying school, in Nevada, off the top of my head, and Miramar is now a Marine Corps station) it's fair to say they are associating with the film. 
That Bond PO isn't the worst of the 'limited editions' I've seen though.
LukeBird said:
Skier said:
Omega are not alone in doing this. IWC have ruined a perfectly good watch by associateing it with Top Gun and Miramar - not strictly the film but the training school itself. Still, it will be forever associated with the film.
In fact given neither Top Gun nor NAS Miramar exist anymore (the former has been absorbed into another advanced flying school, in Nevada, off the top of my head, and Miramar is now a Marine Corps station) it's fair to say they are associating with the film. That Bond PO isn't the worst of the 'limited editions' I've seen though.
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