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Founded in 2015, Spectre Time offers a unique style of luxury watches with bold and extravagant designs. Designed and developed purely in-house and manufactured with only quality materials and parts, it caters to all who have the desire to experience horology in an exciting way.
Using technology from centuries ago, this watch is built with a self-winding engine that requires no battery.
Instead, the springs & gear trains inside the movement are powered by your kinetic energy from your wrist to keep time with a 40 hour power reserve.
The very heartbeat of the watch can be seen through the exhibition case back to experience the Seagull mechanical movement for yourself.
Powered by the sun, SPECTRE has you covered with glow in the dark lume hands and dials, and scratch-resistant sapphire glass to keep you busy with life pursuits, without worries of knicks and scratches.
According to this interview with Sam Mendez (Spectre's Director) he certainly strived to make sure that the film works as a stand-alone piece, without the audience possessing substantial knowledge of the Bond series of films:
Obviously there are extensive references to earlier films and it can't possibly hurt to watch some of the previous films that have referenced SPECTRE (especially 'Dr. No', 'From Russia With Love', 'You Only Live Twice', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'Diamonds Are Forever') but neither is it in any way necessary.
While the other answers are right that Bond films in general are usually entirely independent of each other and showing James Bond on a self-contained and independent adventure, there is a little more to it with regards to this specific film.
While the story of this film is also largely independent and can certainly be enjoyed and understood without having seen any previous films, it is definitely contributory to have at least seen the previous 3 films with Daniel Craig as Bond. Contrary to the majority of previous Bond films, the Craig series relies quite a bit more on cross-movie continuity, even if the films' main stories still stay self-contained. This was first noticable in Quantum of Solace, which was to quite some degree a direct continuation of Casino Royale. Then Skyfall again stayed quite independent. But with SPECTRE the filmmakers try to somewhat close the circle to the previous Craig films, relating them to the new film's main storyline. So while you will still get and appreciate the main storyline of SPECTRE, you might not immediately grasp the impact of the bigger picture that the filmmakers attempted here, nor recognize one or the other recurring character from the previous films.
In addition to that, the Craig series also relies on a much more coherent cross-movie character development of James Bond himself. And as in Skyfall, this movie yet again delves a little into Bond's past. And there's also other characters from not only the past Craig films but James Bond mythology in general whose knowledge might add to the appreciation of their reimagining in this film (or not ;-)). But those are more soft requirements.
So to sum up, you certainly don't have to have seen any previous Bond film to understand and enjoy SPECTRE, but it would add a great deal to getting its full impact if you have at least watched the previous films with Daniel Craig, primarily Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace (in that order!).
This is not entirely accurate, though. We never get to see many other 00 agents, let alone a 001, and there doesn't seem to be a hierarchy among them. What you really need to know is that James Bond is a British spy (working for MI6) and his boss is called M.
The links of the bracelet are actually of a 3-piece design, even although they mimmick a 5-piece construction. I think they look great though, as it gives the watch that wee bit of extra bling without going over the top. The clasp also has nice polished chamfered edges, that also match the overall aesthetics of the bracelet very well. The micro-adjustment is pretty decent too, with 3 holes added. Oh, before moving on to the next part of the review, the bracelet itself also has a very nice taper to it, going from 20mm at the lugs, down to around 16mm at the thinnest most point, before heading back up to approximately 18.5mm at the clasp.
Taking everything into account, everything adds up to a totally stunning and gorgeous dial. The slightly chunky styled hour and minute hands are extremely well executed, with their proportionate scale and lovely overall sharp design. The arrow shaped section of the seconds hand is rather lovely too, with the actual red tip of the hand, reaching right out to the inner edge of the printed black minute track. This white dial version of the Spectre Diver also utilises an almost fum style dial, where the white starts at the pinion and slowly but surely fades to a light grey at the hour markers. It looks absolutely stunning, and even more so in real life.
Great review!
I do love this seamaster 300. Its a great watch,
with unmodified vintage design, which is made modern without losing the
beauty of the vintage version. Very keen observation, the larger letters
on the dial, probably for better recognizability on screen. It doesnt
look better, but you wont really see it.
In cinema, before the movie started, they actually showed that ad, which was somewhat disturbing, like seeing the trailer of a movie right before the movie.Maybe this biased my attention when the scene showed up in the actual movie.
I couldn't really tell if James is doing that intentionally, doing it intentionally but slowly to avoid attention or if he's merely finding the additional meaning of "it tells the time" by accident/luck.
The whole scene wasn't very convincing to me. In retrospect, maybe that's because the line "it tells the time", is some in-universe reference? There are a lot of references to other James Bond movies in this one. Did I miss anything? Did James know all the time that he could do what he did the way he did it?
I took it as simply as an ironic joke; a reference to the fact that all of Q's gadgets always seem to have some secret trick or tool but that in this case he's simply giving him a watch. The whole scene is filled with banter between Bond and Q in regards to how Bond treats the toys that Q gives him...
They then share a knowing look to understand that it does in fact do more than tell time and has a built in explosive device. While they may banter, and Q is limited in what he can provide to Bond while he is grounded, he still ultimately has Bond's back and provides him with an explosive watch.
In regards to the gadgets in the car not being useful, the car had been prepared for a different agent and obviously one with different tastes than Bond. I don't remember the exact details but there are three switches and as he flips them they each have an alternate meaning, adding to the humor of the movie. For example the "atmosphere" switch turns on "New York New York" adding to the "musical atmosphere" rather than serving as a possibly useful gadget such as nitrous boosters.
This unique Seamaster 300 comes in a robust stainless steel case with a black and grey striped NATO strap - a strap that is reminiscent of Bond's original NATO strap worn in Goldfinger and Thunderball. The keepers of the strap are engraved with the 007 gun logo and Omega. If you can't afford the watch, but want the same strap, you can buy the strap from Omega separately, but then it doesn't have the 007 gun logo engraved.
The watch comes in a beautiful box, including the black and grey NATO strap, a steel strap and some tools. The box has a three digit code, so you will have to bring out your inner spy to guess the code.
Get a similar look
You can also get a similar look of the SPECTRE Limited Edition watch by buying the regular Omega Seamaster 300 (Ref. 233.30.41.21.01.001) and add an Omega NATO strap (22mm). The difference would be: you don't get the limited edition packaging; there won't be a limited number engraved on the back or mention of SPECTRE and 007; the bezel is different (the Limited Edition shows the numbers 0 - 11, while the regular version has 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50); the seconds hand is slightly different and the Limited edition doesn't have the number 12 on the dial, but a slightly bigger Omega logo instead (compare images on the left); and on the regular NATO strap there won't be "007" engraved on the metal parts of the NATO strap.
The other watch worn by Bond in SPECTRE is an Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M. At the end of the film, a third Omega watch can be spotted, a vintage Omega Chronograph with black leather strap. Another Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra James Bond Limited Edition is also available, not seen in the the film.
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The signed crown is fantastic and definitely looks the part with its etched Spectre logo. There is absolutely no wobble either when the crown is in use and you can also feel a very nice pop as you unscrew it to the first position. The caseback has a laser etched shark design on it that looks decent and there is also the usual spec sheet etched around the edge.
The movement selected for the Spectre Frostbite is the microbrand go-to movement of choice, the super-reliable NH35 manufactured by Seiko. The SII NH35 is a fantastic workhorse with 21,600vph, 3Hz, 24 jewel automatic movement with a 41hr power reserve, self winding and ofcourse hacking. Checking the accuracy after running the Frostbite for just over a week, mainly on my wrist and occasionally in my watch winder, I thought the accuracy was pretty damn good, with it showing an average of just +6.3 seconds per day.
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