I don't think we're going to get a 60's reboot. The Bond producers rely heavily on product placement money to fund their movies. Far more than most. I don't know how much product placement revenue they can raise for a movie that is supposed to take place 60 years ago.
Besides a watch, the only other thing I can think of is liquor.
Cars too, but Aston would love the excuse to include the DB5 again. To be clear, I was just responding to someone else's suggestion earlier this thread that it's been rumoured to be a 60's reboot. I don't believe one way or another that it will be, if anything I think it's unlikely. But the two big names associated with Bond are Omega and Aston and both would be happy to whip out old stock (or reissues of them) and still get all the juicy marketing they need.
Of course Aston is part of JB, but I don't see Aston doing a DB5 re-issue to pump sales. At least with Omega and whatever liquor brand, they can pump sales with the tie-in.
I'm excited about this. It tells me Omega is moving in the right direction and/or listening.
But if I really wanted this watch… I'd just buy the 2500 pre-ceramic 41mm model 212.30.41.20.01.002.
It's 13.0mm thick. It's 41mm. It's got the shorter L2L. It looks great on the other bracelets Omega made, whether the Speedmaster/Peter Blake style, or the three-link Aqua Terra bracelets, or even the new mesh.
I owned one for like a month recently, getting it on a whim kind of by accident when a seller accepted a lower offer than I expected him to. I sold it because I own the 2220.80 and the 2201.50 PO, so I didn't feel a need for it in my collection. But boy did it make a positive impression on me.
I am fully on-board with all the improvements and innovations Omega has introduced since that model ceased production—METAS and anti-magnetism are great; ceramic bezels are great; the quality and finishing has improved tremendously. So I understand why we all want Omega to make new watches with our checklist of wants.
But this watch is so recent that I feel there are almost zero downsides to sourcing one pre-owned (assuming you can find one, of course, which at times is easy and at other times is harder). And there are things I like better about the older 41mm case that I just don't see Omega going back to, namely the 15-minute diving scale and smaller numerals on the bezel and the skinnier, more elegant lugs.
Some photos to illustrate the point. Images are my own, except the last one, which I grabbed from a Reddit post from 2 years ago.
Of course Aston is part of JB, but I don't see Aston doing a DB5 re-issue to pump sales. At least with Omega and whatever liquor brand, they can pump sales with the tie-in.
Any chance you could share the bracelet reference for the bracelet you have on it in the second photo?
M OfanThe Seamaster series is the best-selling/most popular model alongside the Speedmaster Moonwatch.
Omega would not present the new generation of the Seamaster (the Bond watch par excellence) at the Olympic Games on Daniel Craig's arm "by chance". You can do that if it's another color variant of a Moonwatch or Seamaster, but it's not worthy of such an introduction/presentation of a new watch generation of Omega's top sellers (as much as I like Daniel Craig).
Omega will introduce/present the new generation Seamaster on the wrist of the new James Bond actor in the new James Bond movie. They certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity! Daniel Craig is no longer James Bond! You mustn't forget that.
Next year it will most likely be decided who the new James Bond actor will be and shortly after that the shooting of the new JB movie will start. The new JB movie is behind schedule. Therefore, I am sure that Omega will present the new Seamaster in a movie/watch trailer at the end of next year (when the shooting of the new JB movie has started). Just like with the Seamaster NTTD. And to bridge the time until then, Omega is using Daniel Craig to introduce another Seamaster variant alongside the NTTD and 60th Anniversary JB (all with mesh bracelet).
Can you tell by eye what is contributing to the thickness difference on the quartz vs mechanical first gen references? I'm curious if it's a thicker caseback, or the case itself is thicker. I imagine the bezel and crystal would be identical.
I was talking to my local independent Omega watchmaker today and I asked him this question. He happened to have a quartz 2541.80 he was working on and my automatic 2531.80, which I brought in for some work, so we checked them. The mid-cases are basically identical. But the quartz caseback is 0.4mm thinner than the caseback for the automatic version. Which jibes with my overall measurements that showed the quartz to be 0.4mm thinner than the auto.
As you imagined, the crystal and bezel are interchangeable.
It actually makes sense the mid-case would be the same as then they only had one part to tool for. And the differences were accounted for by the movement holder and caseback.
I was talking to my local independent Omega watchmaker today and I asked him this question. He happened to have a quartz 2541.80 he was working on and my automatic 2531.80, which I brought in for some work, so we checked them. The mid-cases are basically identical. But the quartz caseback is 0.4mm thinner than the caseback for the automatic version. Which jibes with my overall measurements that showed the quartz to be 0.4mm thinner than the auto.
As you imagined, the crystal and bezel are interchangeable.
It actually makes sense the mid-case would be the same as then they only had one part to tool for. And the differences were accounted for by the movement holder and caseback.
You say that, but I've seen it stated here before by Al that the mid cases are not identical. Perhaps they differ only in how the movement is retained but that's what he said...
If they are different, neither I nor the watchmaker I was with could discern the difference. The caseback was obvious though when measured with the calipers.
Love the watch per movie display stands. Wonder where they pulled the old references from.
Read somewhere, potentially announcement this month. Excited if the case
I heard November but either way, it's close! If I were to take a guess, it'll be akin to how the FOIS is on the Speedmaster family tree, for the Seamaster. Thinking between $7-8k.
