David Rosenthal: observation

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…I don’t know. One of the sources I found on watchesofespionage.com details, apparently the costume designer reached out to Omega and was given for free a Seamaster. There’s (I think) even a quote, “There was no product placement incentive in 1995 whatsoever. I went to them and of course they were interested, but it was no more than helping us. They gave us watches for nothing.” It definitely turned into a backup, the truck boatload of money thing. But the Omega fans will insist that it was an organic thing at first. Okay, maybe that’s right. Anyway the point is, from 1962 until 1995, if you like James Bond and you wanted to have a little bit of James Bond in your life too, then you wanted to wear a Submariner on your wrist. It’s perfect. James Bond does a lot of diving, and then he goes right from diffusing the undersea bomb with the Bond girl, to then popping up and going to this high class dinner afterwards. He’s all wearing the same watch the entire time.…

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