Daniel Craig’s Omega Seamaster from No Time to Die will hit the market next month at PropStore’s Entertainment Memorabilia auction in London.
The lot is the Omega Seamaster that Craig wears throughout the film but with one big twist – it’s the stunt watch.
This means that it was the watch Craig and his stunt double would wear during action and fight sequences so as not to damage the real thing.
The piece is made from rubber and acrylic and painted to resemble metal by the prop hands. It also does not have a working movement. An exact replica of the real Seamaster, just made out of different materials and with a fair amount of wear and tear, the pre-auction estimate is between £4,000 and £8,000 but could easily surpass that given how well 007 related memorabilia does on the market.
Another movie related watch in the auction is the custom piece worn by Tom Cruise in the 1999 film, Magnolia. Worn throughout the film by Cruise, the watch is a Timex Expedition Indiglo WR-30M compass watch fitted with a custom leather strap especially for the character. While a real watch, it is not currently in working order but the quartz battery can be replaced. Like the Bond watch, Cruise’s Timex carries a pre-auction estimate of between £4,000 and £8,000.
A third watch featured in the auction is the Hamilton Ventura worn by Tommy Lee Jones throughout Men in Black 3. The exact Ventura you can buy in a shop, the model is, of course, famous for being the world’s first battery powered electrical watch and the one worn by Jones is expected to fetch up to £2,000.
Last month, Propstore hosted a huge James Bond auction featuring lots such as the suit worn by Daniel Craig in No Time to Die, a dress worn by Ana De Armas in the same film and a car from The World is Not Enough among hundreds of other bits of props and memorabilia.
The most intriguing watch-related lot was an Omega Seamaster Diver 300M identical to the one Brosnan wore in Tomorrow Never Dies.
In the film, the watch features a detonator and while no such gadget exists on the watch available, it still has an interesting history.
Not actually worn by Pierce Brosnan in the film, this Omega was displayed during a publicity event hosted at Jaeger’s flagship store on Regent Street just before the release of the movie. There were two Omega’s on display with one sold and the other gifted to an employee.
Though the watch had a pre-auction estimate of up to £10,000, it easily swept past that and fetched just north of £15,000, including the buyer’s premium.
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