Have Doxa ever done a Dirk Pitt special edition?
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
You may notice -or not- that this discussion isn't very different from the one we had a few weeks ago regarding Bremont's unsubstantiated history: it's all about marketing, and most importantly it's not directed at us. Not that we are immune to marketing, just that we don't need it to know about the brand and the watches.
So even if it puts off half of the WIS population, it is a fraction of the numbers who will discover the Seamaster through that connection, and end up buying one.
For the record, EON production went to see Omega for Goldeneye (I couldn't remember the first Omega-JB association, but a kind member helped me out me a few days ago), asking them if they could supply a watch. Their interlocutor turned them down, saying that he wouldn't supply a free watch. He also added, with a large smile, that he was, however, prepared to create a genuine partnership with the JB franchise.
The rest is history. The man was Jean-Claude Biver.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Last edited by number2; 28th February 2020 at 11:03.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I wouldn't buy a watch with 007 written on it. Omega have a predisposition for linking their watches to themes, and that is their marketing strategy. I have not problem with that. The standard Seamasters are nice watches.
But when I was a lad, I always liked the watch Roger Moore wore in his first two bond films.
As a young bloke, I decided to find out what it was, and then when I went to get a Submariner, nearly fainted at the price. That was my first baptism into the prices of luxury watches.
The rest is history.
As we all know, bond originally wore a rolex, but then he was such a bad ass spy the swatch group decided to sponsor him and because he was a lowly paid civil servant with a unsustainable hedonistic lifestyle, he took up the free omega and sold his sub at a fraction of what its worth today.
I like the pheon on the dial but like the lume, it's faux, as unless I'm wrong (and happy to be be proved so) I don't believe the 300M Seamaster was ever UK Govt issue. The price is extortionate! £7.4K RRP which is nearly double the standard bracletted Seamaster. That is taking the p***!
Omega pricing - 2006 for steel 41mm seamaster = £2,470 for co-axial model on https://www.omegawatches.com/en-gb/p...ema/james-bond
2020 current steel on steel = £4,170
2006 Planet Ocean "big size" = £2700
2020 Planet Ocean 43.5mm = £4960
Bank of England inflation calculator https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator - £2470 is worth £3,600, £2700 is £3936 in 2019. So the SMP has increased by £570 and the Planet Ocean £1024.