Reply With QuoteAnd a blue Aqua Terra for £119,700. Wow.
And a blue Aqua Terra for £119,700. Wow.
That blue AT is truly unremarkable. Nice watch, but 97% of its auction sale value there is purely Bond provenance…worthless to me but clearly not to one extremely wealthy individual
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Well his 5 movie bow ties went for 42k US lol so watch prob a bargain
Does this now mean Daniel Craig is no longer affiliated with Omega as his tenure as Bond is now over, so he no longer has to wear their timepieces unless he chooses to personally I'm guessing.
I was also watching the Christies auction and was surprised how much the Seamaster sold for. The hammer price was £180,000, but the fees bumped it up to the headline price.
Interestingly, a limited edition Landrover Defender in the same auction sold for less money, £150k I seem to recall. I guess it doesn't carry the same provenance, but seems crazy that a not particularly special watch sells for more than a desirable car.
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All funds going to charity too, fair play.
I guess so, the brand ambassador role has been more about Bond than Daniel Craig, unlike Eddie Redmayne or George Clooney's deal. The next Bond will become brand ambassador and fill DC's shoes.Originally Posted by Planet Ocean
Silly people buying ordinary watches for silly money....
Fill your boots......
Im pretty sure most people wont care now or in six months time. Daniel who?..... Omega AT?..... Omega D300?.....added value? right.
It's all for charidee, mate…
"DESIGNED WITH INPUT FROM THE ACTOR..."
Don't remember reading that when the watch was released. Surprised Omega didn't make more of it if true.
Not sure how much input but Omega did release a promotional vid around the time of release I seem to remember which featured DC and seemed to suggest that he did have some say in it. Who knows, marketing BS ?
I could sell you my Omega for half that but I would have to shoot you!
Could be true. DC is a watch guy I believe so would make sense.
Could be a bit like when Victoria Beckham "designed" the Evoque though.
Yes. No problem with rich people buying ordinary things for silly money
Yes. No problem with rich people getting a tax break on charitable donations (a cheeky ~£90k off this years IncTx).
Small problem why rich people just dont give money away quietly rather than make a deal out of it.
My biggest problem is with average Joe citizen (watch enthusiast), praising rich silly people buying an ordinary watch - which can be purchased on the high street (without a long waitlist) and thinking its somehow something special?
Maybe Daniel Craig did some excessive sweating on set and the bracelet is especially gunked-up?
The estimate was a bit low at £15.000 to £20.000
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Yes it was mentioned at the time
Always are way out for everythingThe estimate was a bit low at £15.000 to £20.000
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Whoever the wealthy Mitty happens to be, I'll wager he has a DB5 as well.
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I am sure there are people out there who are as much into the recent Bond as we were into our Bond. As a kid I had a toy Bond Aston. These days those toys are worth serious money. I stopped liking Bond movies a couple of Bonds back. There are other movies that do the same job better. But I like the Bond watches. All of them.
"The whole purpose of mechanical watches is to be impertinent." ~ Lionel a Marca, CEO of Breguet
‘Designed with input from the actor’
Did he have a hand in that weird deployant clasp on a Milanese bracelet? I can’t get my head around that at all, it looks super weird and unnecessary.
In both cases the top half is unconvincing.
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