This is James Bond's new Omega Seamaster 300 watch from SPECTRE and you can buy one too

published 24 August 2015

In Bond films past, the suave super-spy's watches have featured everything from lasers to small rotating blades. Generally speaking they've not been available to you, the public, because you just can't be trusted with lasers and small, whirly saw-blade things. Even in recent years, when Bond's watches have just been watches, they've only been available to you with a socking great logo on the front saying "Quantum of Solace" or whatever. Which clearly, Bond's one in the film does not, because that would be weird. Today, that changes.

Bond's timepiece since 1995's GoldenEye has been an Omega Seamaster, to celebrate Bond's naval heritage (he was a commander in the Royal Navyin Ian Fleming's books). This time around, for the first time, a Seamaster 300 exactly the same as the one Daniel Craig wears in the film SPECTRE will go on sale as a limited edition.

Driven by the "highly innovative" Omega Master Co-Axial calibre 8400, the watch features a bi-directional, rotating diving bezel, made from black, polished ceramic. Omega's LiquidMetal 12-hour scale lets you set time for another zone. There's a "lollipop" second hand, and the strap is a dashing, five-stripe, black and grey NATO affair, with a 007 gun logo engraved on the strap holder.

Now hang on, does that mean Bond in the film has a Bond logo on his watch too? Because, as we noted above, that would be weird. It's like they're breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging he's a fictional character. Unless the implication is that the 007 gun logo is AN ACTUAL LOGO USED BY MI6?

This seems unlikely to us.

Anyway, each watch has its own unique serial number engraved on the back along with the SPECTRE film logo - which again, we would question whether that would be on a real spy's watch, but at least it's not visible in this location.

This special timepiece will be "available in selected boutiques"from September. It's limited to just 7,007 pieces, and the clock is ticking on how long you've got to purchase one. Price is £4785.

Here's a picture of Daniel Craig looking at one, and also modelling one, both at Omega's factory in Villeret. We're assuming he won't have that beard in the film.

Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years.

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."