Omega Pits James Bond Against Spectre in a New Six-Watch Seamaster Collection

For the first time in its 30-year association with James Bond—and a museum devoted to the franchise’s villains—Omega is giving Spectre equal billing. The Swiss watchmaker’s latest Seamaster Diver 300M collection features both sides of the 007 universe, with six references distinguished by gun-barrel and octopus motifs on their winding rotors.

The Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond and Spectre collection comprises six watches, all measuring 42 mm and powered by the same Co-Axial Master Chronometer movement. Two stainless-steel references are available individually, with another four watches reserved for two limited-edition sets. Each set pairs steel with platinum-gold, and only 77 numbered examples of each will be produced.

Notably, the standard Bond edition, reference 210.30.42.20.03.004, retains the familiar Seamaster blue. Laser-engraved waves run across the aluminum dial, framed by a Grade 5 titanium bezel with a raised diving scale produced through laser ablation. A coat-of-arms hour marker occupies 12 o’clock. Alongside it, the Spectre edition, reference 210.30.42.20.01.023, appears almost austere. The dial has a blackened, grained surface, matched with a black ceramic bezel. Both watches arrive on brushed stainless-steel mesh bracelets.

At 14.23 mm thick, with a 50 mm lug-to-lug measurement, these remain substantial dive watches. Each offers 300 meters of water resistance, a unidirectional bezel and Super-LumiNova-filled hands and hour markers. Blue luminescence illuminates the hour and seconds hands, with green reserved for the minute hand and bezel pip, which allows the two diving indications to be read together in darkness.

Inside the timepiece is Omega’s automatic Calibre 8806, with a 55-hour power reserve. The movements are visible through sapphire windows secured by the brand’s Naiad Lock caseback system (the orientation of the engravings are tastefully preserved because of this). Bond also receives a rhodium-plated gun-barrel decoration on the rotorRotorThe weighted, semicircular metal piece in an automatic watch that spins freely with the wrist's movement to wind the watch's mainspring. Rotors are often beautifully decorated with engravings or madeGo to Rotor Glossary. Spectre, meanwhile, gets its blackened octopus, the same emblem that gives the otherwise conventional-looking diver its particular identity.

Collectors seeking the precious-metal versions will have to purchase them as part of the numbered sets. Bond’s platinum-gold reference 210.83.42.20.03.001 has an 18-karat white-gold dial, finished with a blue PVD gradient and gun-barrel pattern. A polished blue ceramic bezel carries a platinum diving scale. Spectre’s equivalent, reference 210.83.42.20.01.001, substitutes a dark-grey gradient and an octopus motif worked into the white-gold dial. Both feature emblems in 18-karat Moonshine Gold on their winding rotors.

Additional metal makes a considerable difference on the wrist. Bond’s platinum-gold watch weighs approximately 203.7 grams, against 201.6 grams for Spectre. Case thickness increases slightly to 14.29 mm. Blue and black leather straps, respectively, replace the steel mesh, with polished-brushed platinum-gold buckles completing each watch. Each numbered set also includes a stainless-steel version bearing its edition number on a plate at 9 o’clock.

Omega offers the watches in a presentation box with an additional NATO strap, strap-changing tool, loupe, cufflinks, cord bracelet, leather travel pouch, card holder and certificate of authenticity. Of course, accessories follow the corresponding blue or black color scheme, down to the insignias on the strap keepers.

The collection is available through Omega boutiques.