Marking the launch of IO Interactive and Amazon MGM Studio’s James Bond origin-story game “007 First Light”, Omega transforms a fictional mission tool into a fully realised watch ready for your wrist
When a watch appears in a video game fitted with a laser strap and a hacking device capable of disabling electronic equipment, one might reasonably expect it to stay in the animation realm. Omega, however, has other ideas. The Swiss watchmaking house has turned the Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph, featured in the forthcoming 007 video game, First Light, into physical reality. In doing so, Omega also introduces the first-ever chronograph model in the James Bond’s Seamaster Diver 300M canon.
Even if you are not an avid gamer, the watch entices with its sleek, sportive features. Housed in 44mm stainless steel, it features a polished black ceramic bezel ring with a white enamel diving scale, and black ceramic pushers that lend it a purposeful, almost tactical quality.
The black ceramic dial brandishes the collection’s characteristic laser-engraved wave pattern, punctuated by a sub-dial at 3 o’clock finished in PVD bronze gold. That same treatment extends to the central chronograph seconds hand, while the remaining hands and indexes are rhodium-plated and filled with white Super-LumiNova.
For the engine, Omega enlists the Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9900, an automatic chronograph movement that comes with METAS certification, guaranteeing top-level precision, magnetic resistance, and performance. The sapphire caseback reveals both the movement, as well as the 007 First Light logo rendered in black metallisation.
The complementary NATO strap works in a black, grey, and beige colourway—identical to the watch worn in No Time to Die but distinct in pattern—and flaunts the engravings ‘007’ and ‘First Light’ on the keepers. Six further strap options, each drawn from playable versions within the game, are available separately. The entire package comes in a presentation box modelled after the in-game suitcase used to transport the watch through Bond’s missions. It is, in the truest sense, a piece of fiction made wearable.
