A Tom Ford tuxedo with a watch on a brown leather NATO strap! What in the world is he thinking?
He’s not thinking, he’s getting paid to wear whatever he’s wearing. Someone else does the thinking, and we’ll see how sales respond to the effort.
he’s getting paid to wear whatever he’s wearing
True, even though he earned 39 million dollars with his last Bond movie alone, he's still sponsored for literally everything he wears/drives/does. Quite bizarre.
Remember back when Sean Connery showed up in a white tux with a sub and a poorly sized G10 strap.
My understanding is that he didn’t show up wearing it, he borrowed that watch from one the DP I believe because they thought it was cool and rugged and reflected what Bond really was at heart.
I think after the fact they tried to get a Rolex sponsorship but Rolex declined.
I don’t know if that was reversed for Timothy Dalton who wore a Rolex as Bond or Roger Moore who also wore a Rolex in one of the movies. Specially on the Timothy Dalton case there is a pretty specific set of shots that look like product placement to me.
If memory serves me right on one case the watch bezel was an electric saw and on another a laser? Or maybe the laser was another one and this one had the crown as a hook. I don’t know.... clearly both where Frankens. 😀
Not really. That sponsorship is part of his contract. The bond franchise has Omega as a sponsor since Pierce Brosnan, so if you’re Bond you sign up to be an Omega ambassador for the duration of your contract. That’s part of the contract and pay.
Sometimes it’s the opposite, some actors bring their ambassadorship into new contracts, like Kevin Spacey with IWC and Clive Owen with JLC. Other times the studio imposes the relationship like Bond.
My guess is that, given this is his final outing, Omega may put one of the newly redesigned SMP Divers on his wrist, for nostalgia. We'll see.
