James Bond Watches Blog

Octopussy (1983)

The G757 caliber worn by Roger Moore in Octopussy is the watch perhaps most associated among fans as a James Bond Seiko

Of the two different Seiko-branded watches worn by James Bond in this film, only one was provided by Seiko UK Limited. Thus, we must leave the other as a mystery — for now.

From Seiko UK, we have the distinctive G757-5020, model WLK005 pseudo-analog that may well be the best remembered of the Bond Seikos.

From an electronics standpoint, it tracks the time in two zones, day of week, date, and offers a timer, alarm and stopwatch functions.

Visually, it’s distinguished by a durable plastic horseshoe-shaped bezel alluding to its purpose with the markings ‘Sports 100.’

Special-effects wizards at EON Productions give movie audiences the impression that this watch can track a homing device secreted within a Fabergé egg, via a blinking, beeping directional finder.

But is real value is in how strongly it plays up some of the most dramatic moments in Ian Fleming’s storytelling continue reading…

The definitive list of James Bond watches from Seiko UK, by Dell Deaton, in Revolution magazine, 2010

For the first time ever, a 6-page feature article in the current Revolution magazine authoritatively labels and describes all 8 James Bond watch models supplied by Seiko UK to Eon Productions for its 007 films (so far).

Based on exclusive access to personnel and records through Seiko UK, James Bond Watches has finally ended guesswork — and outright misrepresentations — that have frustrated researchers, collectors, and James Bond fans for literally decades.

Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, et al., first put a Seiko watch on the wrist of Roger Moore as James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me as part of an innovative cooperative marketing arrangement with Seiko UK. That film was released in 1977, and the deal continued through a total of 5 films, until the 1985 feature A View to a Kill.

Mark Mills, FBHI, joined Seiko UK in 1977 and ultimately became point-man for the supplier of these James Bond watches.

Yet despite the number of insistant discussions about these watches on fan forums, and self-proclaimed “experts” who’ve set up shop to continue reading…