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·The trailer looks pretty cool and it seems the Speedy gets pretty good screentime. Looks to be the hesalite variant.
Speedmaster featured in Moonfall
The trailer looks pretty cool and it seems the Speedy gets pretty good screentime. Looks to be the hesalite variant.
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cvalue13
·Almost *too* featured…
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·NTTD was too subtle and people complained about that also. 👎
I guess I am in the camp that thinks over the top product placement is a net negative to my attraction to a brand or a model.
The scene where Eva Green asks if James Bond’s watch is a Rolex, so that he can respond it is an omega, sort of made my stomach turn.
There is an ass for every seat.
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StudebakerHawk
·I guess I am in the camp that thinks over the top product placement is a net negative to my attraction to a brand or a model.
The scene where Eva Green asks if James Bond’s watch is a Rolex, so that he can respond it is an omega, sort of made my stomach turn.
There is an ass for every seat.
Is it o-ME-ga or O-meg-a?
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scapa
·I was watching some bit of tripe the other day when a Speedy popped up on the wrist on one of the characters. My wife actually paused it to ask if that was the watch on the t-shirt she bought me. It was pretty subtle, and certainly the best thing in the film.
But yeah, a little deft product placement goes a long way, IMO.
But yeah, a little deft product placement goes a long way, IMO.
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StudebakerHawk
·I was watching some bit of tripe the other day when a Speedy popped up on the wrist on one of the characters. My wife actually paused it to ask if that was the watch on the t-shirt she bought me. It was pretty subtle, and certainly the best thing in the film.
But yeah, a little deft product placement goes a long way, IMO.
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cknight24
·Was watching Longmire on Netflix.... wife paused the show, had to ask what timepiece Longmire was wearing and if it was Omega. She is feeding my habit....
I watched Longmire and never noticed he wears an Omega. Which one?
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StudebakerHawk
·It is actual a Casio. At first it looked like a Speedmaster MkII but the interwebs have it as Casio MTP-4500D-1AV
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cvalue13
·Is it o-ME-ga or O-meg-a?
Depends: on which continent do you live? 😁
https://omegaforums.net/threads/so-how-do-you-pronounce.1617/
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cvalue13
·Just “Ohh-Emm-Gee” will do
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TimeODanaos
·Is it o-ME-ga or O-meg-a?
Oddly enough, OBs and ADs are among those more impressed by wallets than pronunciation... 🙁
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SpeedyPhill
·Interesting marketing, just now as PANERAI became the 7th wrist watch brand to be exposed to outer space ...
Meanwhile onboard the ISS - International Space Station
ISS Expedition 66 crew... January 19, 2022 Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov probably wore a PANERAI Radiomir wristwatch during EVA spacewalk... Bringing the number of wrist watch makes directly exposed to outer space to 7 (Omega, Glycine, Bulova, Fortis, Fiyta, Seiko and Panerai)
We can spot the "power reserve" indicator hand But can You guys & girls spot the exact black dial model ?
Thx in advance !
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Meanwhile onboard the ISS - International Space Station
ISS Expedition 66 crew... January 19, 2022 Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov probably wore a PANERAI Radiomir wristwatch during EVA spacewalk... Bringing the number of wrist watch makes directly exposed to outer space to 7 (Omega, Glycine, Bulova, Fortis, Fiyta, Seiko and Panerai)
We can spot the "power reserve" indicator hand But can You guys & girls spot the exact black dial model ?
Thx in advance !
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cvalue13
·The CEO of Omega, like the American and Greek pronunciations, places the emphasis on the second syllable: o-ME-ga
Unlike the American and Greek pronunciations though, the CEO’s pronunciation of that second syllable is more toward o-MEE-ga (as opposed to o-MAY-ga) … which is, I assume, consistent with the Swiss’s German/French inflection on the word?
Unlike the American and Greek pronunciations though, the CEO’s pronunciation of that second syllable is more toward o-MEE-ga (as opposed to o-MAY-ga) … which is, I assume, consistent with the Swiss’s German/French inflection on the word?
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AntonisCy
·As a Greek and OMEGA being a Greek word (the last letter of the Greek alphabet "Ω") i can confirm it is "Oh-Mega". Practically it means the Mega O. The other O in the alphabet ("Ο") is called Omicron (Oh-Micron) which means the small O. Micron means small in Greek. So the Greek has a Mega O and a Small O. Ω and Ο.
Omicron was also given as a name to the latest covid variant. All variants are based on Greek letters (Like Delta "Δ") which is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. Hope we dont have an Omega variant.
Omicron was also given as a name to the latest covid variant. All variants are based on Greek letters (Like Delta "Δ") which is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. Hope we dont have an Omega variant.
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cvalue13
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gbesq
·I guess I am in the camp that thinks over the top product placement is a net negative to my attraction to a brand or a model.
The scene where Eva Green asks if James Bond’s watch is a Rolex, so that he can respond it is an omega, sort of made my stomach turn.
There is an ass for every seat.
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·generally agree about the negative associations with overt product endorsement, but what makes that scene great is the verbal interplay between the two characters and the sexual tension that is just beneath the surface. True, Rolex gets a sharp stick in the eye, but that's all of five seconds in a four minute segment and really incidental to what's going on between Bond and Green. Like it or not, the scene works on multiple levels including memorable product placement.
All in the best of fun, with ultimately meaningless importance:
On the contrary, for me whatever positive can be said of this scene, it is lessened and spoiled by the unnecessary Rolex-Omega exchange.
Which gets at probably the most asinine thing about the product placement attempt: each agent having just pulled a Sherlock-Holmes-esque deduction regarding one-another’s childhoods, etc., based entirely on their respective appearances, Vespa’s comment about the “expensive watch” is both:
(1) redundant (in that Vespa has by that point already mentioned the “cut” of Bond’s suit to sufficiently establish Bond’s refined tastes for menswear, etc.) and
(2) out-of-character (in that, despite having just deduced Bond’s university alma mater based merely on his tailoring, she’s now so unfamiliar with menswear that she can’t - after an evening across the table and entire bottle of wine - discern the difference between a Rolex and an Omega wristwatch?
Even my wife can notice the difference in a Rolex and an Omega (even if she can’t tell the difference between all my Omegas 😎).
To me, the exchange practically breaks the third wall in it’s attempt to squeeze in the product placement.
Worse, far from Rolex receiving a “stick in the eye,” the attempted poke does not land, leaving Omega to more than anything seem a bit desperate to be confused with Rolex.
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