Thanks yes I have the same issue my watch came with the standard medium bracelet. There are actually 3 sizes and I have tried a small on this watch a few weeks ago. It fitted better with less excess strap and centered the clasp on my wrist as well (but means me forking out another 1.2K! Mine is on the third hole from the watch and means the excess bracket is the same length as the clasp doubling née trebling the thickness and touching the bracket on the other side rubbing it and distorting the shape a little.
This watch has been like marmite for me I hated it for the afore mentioned reason, started to like it, hated it and have now warmed to it enough to purchase at the price I did but still wouldn’t at the full price is just me.
Cheers 😀
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
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:
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Nice! Ive not bonded so well with my NTTD as need a diff size strap as between holes!
Thanks yes I have the same issue my watch came with the standard medium bracelet. There are actually 3 sizes and I have tried a small on this watch a few weeks ago. It fitted better with less excess strap and centered the clasp on my wrist as well (but means me forking out another 1.2K! Mine is on the third hole from the watch and means the excess bracket is the same length as the clasp doubling née trebling the thickness and touching the bracket on the other side rubbing it and distorting the shape a little.
This watch has been like marmite for me I hated it for the afore mentioned reason, started to like it, hated it and have now warmed to it enough to purchase at the price I did but still wouldn’t at the full price is just me.
Cheers 😀
I was always curious to see what the NTTD bracelet would look like on my Ti PO’s and the NTTD SMP on a Grey NATO
Enjoy
Cheers 😀
Thanks for the info on the different size bracelets! What size wrist are you?
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.
Instagram: Classy Tourist
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.
Instagram: Classy Tourist
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