Guess Omega would not be too pleased if this were true.
http://www.melrosejewelers.co.uk/rolex- ... ames-bond/
I'd be surprised if it were true. Not that I dont expect him to won a Rolex, but for Promo's, etc, I'd be amazed if he wasnt wearing his sponsors watch. In my experience, papers can seldom even get cars right (how many timesdo you see the wrong photo attatched to a story), so I dont expect them to be able to tell two fancy divers apart.
I'm pretty sure that Whilst the James Bond franchise has a deal with Omega, Daniel Craig does not. He is free to wear whatever he chooses. It seems he has a liking for Rolex.
Regards
Tim
I think this is spot on. I've seen him wearing his Rolex multiple times. I assume his contract doesn't exclusively make him wear Omega.I'm pretty sure that Whilst the James Bond franchise has a deal with Omega, Daniel Craig does not. He is free to wear whatever he chooses. It seems he has a liking for Rolex.
Regards
Tim
Daniel Craig has a love of vintage Rolex and often wears them in his normal life. The '6538', a version of the Rolex Submariner from the 1950's, is also known as the 'Big Crown'. His one was a present from his other 'arf and would have cost about £40k.
The 6538 was indeed the one worn on numerous occasions by Sean Connery, but in reality, in the Bond books written by Ian Fleming, he never actually mentioned a specific model name. He just said that Bond wore an 'Oyster Perpetual'.
When filming started on 'Dr No', the props dept didn't have a Rolex, so the Producer took his own Rolex off (a 6538) and gave it to Connery to wear...and the legend was born!! :)
Obviously Craig has taste (and is not obligated to wear only Omegas).
Jason
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Melrose Jewellers trolled this site a few months back, showing a picture of a gold Rolex that not even Ali G would have been caught dead wearing.
Melrose are a bunch of w@nkers who troll on various sites and try and get free advertising! If anyone comes across any of their 'posts' about great customer service, etc., it's best to just ignore or post suitably degoratory replies!! :DOriginally Posted by Michael A
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I'd heard that before I ever joined TZ-UK.
Interestingly the 07 Omega brochure shows a picture of DC with the caption "Daniel Craig as James Bond". The 08 Brochure has no picture or mention of DC, just the 007 logo writ big with regard to the Seamasters (Professional and PO).
So yes, agree with the above, it seems that the fictional James Bond is the ambassador, not DC.
Previous to that, Pearce Brosnan (himself) was the ambassador. And if you watch the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (remake, not the original, an excellent film by the way) Pearce Brosnan plays a very wealthy successful businessman. At one stage he checks his watch and we see a close up of the face. It's a gold Jaeger Le Coultre Reverso but with all the writing removed from the dial. This was (apparently) because his Omega contract stipulated he couldn't be seen wearing any other watch make so they got around this by removing all manufacturer reference from the watch.
If he does wear a Rolex then fair play to him as it's the true Bond watch in any case. I might be alone here but I find Omega's blatant product placement strategy quite distasteful and if anything it puts me off the brand. I have had 3 x Omega's go wrong in the last 6 months (Looks like you were right Neil C) all with versions of the 3303 movement and I would like to see Omega divert more money into the reliability/quality of their product instead of spending so much on product placement.
It's not very clear but I don't think he's wearing Omega here.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Blatant product placement?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lmAfy3c10
Nah :D
hear hear. everything can't be bought. time omega realized that?
Fact that this tread exists is witness that product placement and celebrity endorsements do work!
He has been paid by Omega and Rolex to get publicity in WIS circles. :lol:
Indeed. The subject of 007 and watches crops up a lot on here so clearly the product placement works on most of us, no matter how much we like to believe we're above that kind of thing. :D
I liked it when he took his Omega off and gave it to Jonathon Ross. It was then auctioned on The Bay for children in need 8) I was the highest bidder for an hour :lol:
I'm always right :wink: but sorry to hear you have had so much trouble with yours Shalako. :(
Cheers,
Neil.
I thought you were married Neil :lol:
Perhaps the Omega he gave away for charity?
It's not very clear but I don't think he's wearing Omega here.
Eddie
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
If Rolex support Daniel they done a great marketing action :lol:
Rolex have nothing to do with Daniel Craig (i.e. no business arrangements, formal or informal). It's just coincidence that he's a fan of vintage Rolex. :)
Omega have tarnished their product with all the tacky product placement, IMHO! They make very nice, robust watches - so it's a shame the brand is being turned into 'Fossil' or 'Gucci'!! :evil:
Jason
This might help clear things up and be of interest at the same time:
http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/d ... nnery.html
Enjoy
Interesting. Without commenting on the rest of the post there, I note the reference to the Bond strap uses one of Eddie's pics, and then he suggests that this is the very strap Daniel Craig is wearing. So, Eddie, come clean, are you paying Daniel Craig as a Timefactors strap brand ambassador? :twisted:
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
it is one of eddies straps., i got it for him.
cheers
mike :wink:
I'm guessing it's not a replica at all!It is a Rolex Submariner 6358, an exact replica of the one he remembers Sean Connery wearing in Goldfinger.”
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