James Bond or Spectre? Omega’s New Seamaster Collection Makes You Choose a Side

• OMEGA brings James Bond and Spectre together in one watch collection for the first time, with two standard steel Seamaster Diver 300M models for AUD $13,575 each.
• The Bond and Spectre editions share the same 42 mm case and Calibre 8806 underneath, but split visually between blue waves and gun-barrel details for 007, and a black grained finish with the Spectre octopus on the other side.
• OMEGA is also offering 77 numbered Bond sets and 77 Spectre sets, each pairing a steel watch with an exclusive platinum-gold model for AUD $141,700.

James Bond has spent much of his time as a spy trying to dismantle Spectre. But there’s a problem. OMEGA has decided to build the international criminal syndicate a watch of its own.

For the first time in its more than 30-year relationship with 007, “the watch the world has learned to trust” is forcing us to choose between good and evil, bringing together James Bond and Spectre in the same collection, with six timepieces built around the familiar Seamaster Diver 300M.

The collection is split right down the middle between Bond and Spectre. On one end are two stainless-steel editions: one Bond and one Spectre, both priced at AUD $13,575 each. On the other side sit two far more serious limited-edition box sets, each pairing a numbered steel model with an exclusive platinum-gold version for AUD $141,700.

Before you start counting the dollars in your account, worry about movements, precious metals or which secret organisation signs your pay cheque, there’s only one question left to answer before we proceed with the mission…

MI6 or Spectre? Choosing Between Good and Evil

Whichever side you choose, every watch in the collection starts from similar foundations. Both stainless-steel editions use a 42 mm Seamaster Diver 300M case, a brushed mesh bracelet and OMEGA’s Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806, a self-winding movement built around accuracy and magnetic resistance, with a 55-hour power reserve and, as the name makes clear, 300 metres of water resistance.

OMEGA also colour-codes the lume: the hour hand, seconds hand and indexes glow blue, while the minute hand and bezel marker glow green, making the two parts you use to track elapsed dive time easier to pick out in the dark, or during your next covert night mission.

They’re also playing both sides at once. The Bond half of the collection gets the blue dial, familiar wave pattern and gun-barrel treatment you’d expect from a 007 Seamaster. Spectre goes darker. Much darker. It drops the wave pattern altogether, swapping it out for a grained black dial, ceramic bezel and the organisation’s menacing octopus emblem.

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OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond – Key Specs

• Reference: 210.30.42.20.03.004
• Case: Stainless steel
• Diameter: 42 mm
• Thickness: 14.23 mm
• Dial: Blue aluminium with laser-engraved wave pattern
• Bezel: Grade 5 titanium with positive-relief diving scale
• Movement: OMEGA Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806
• Power reserve: 55 hours
• Water resistance: 300 metres
• Bracelet: Brushed stainless-steel mesh
• Price: AUD $13,575

If you’re sticking with the good guys, the James Bond edition (Ref. 210.30.42.20.03.004) is easily the more familiar-looking Seamaster. Its blue aluminium dial keeps OMEGA’s laser-engraved wave pattern, while the bezel switches to Grade 5 titanium, with the diving scale raised out of the metal rather than printed flat across it.

Most of the obvious 007 business is saved for the back, where a rhodium-plated gun-barrel decoration forms part of the rotor beneath the sapphire caseback. But as Q told James Bond in Skyfall, “Are you expecting an exploding pen? We don’t really go in for that anymore,” so you won’t find remote detonators, lasers or a dial covered in movie references here.

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OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M Spectre – Key Specs

• Reference: 210.30.42.20.01.023
• Case: Stainless steel
• Diameter: 42 mm
• Thickness: 14.23 mm
• Dial: Blackened grained finish
• Bezel: Black ceramic with positive-relief diving scale
• Movement: OMEGA Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806
• Power reserve: 55 hours
• Water resistance: 300 metres
• Bracelet: Brushed stainless-steel mesh
• Price: AUD $13,575

If you’ve chosen evil this week, Spectre’s version (Ref. 210.30.42.20.01.023) is the watch you want to be wearing when you’re taking over the world. Gone are the blue waves and bright Bond cues. Instead, OMEGA has given the watch a blackened grained dial and black ceramic bezel, creating something that looks far more menacing without turning it into a novelty villain watch. Add enough black, and you’re already halfway there.

Even the Spectre iconography is mostly hidden from view. Then you turn it over, and the truth comes out. The caseback is engraved with “Spectre”, while the organisation’s blackened octopus logo forms part of the rotor. From the front, though, it could easily pass for a particularly stealthy Seamaster, fit for a double agent.

OMEGA’s AUD $141,700 Bond and Spectre Sets

If you’ve got your sights set on the limited-edition models, the question becomes less about good and evil, and more about whether paying nearly $150k for a pair of Seamasters is worth it for your next mission.

OMEGA is producing 154 sets in total, split between 77 numbered James Bond sets and another 77 for Spectre. Each presentation box contains two complete watches sharing the same limited-edition number: a numbered stainless-steel Seamaster on the brushed mesh bracelet and an exclusive platinum-gold version on an alligator leather strap.

Neither watch from these numbered sets is sold separately, so the AUD $141,700 gets you the pair rather than one outrageously expensive platinum-gold Seamaster.

Each box also includes an additional NATO strap and changing tool, cufflinks, a steel cord bracelet, loupe, leather travel pouch, card holder and certificate of authenticity. Bond gets the blue travel gear and 007-engraved strap keepers, while Spectre swaps to black and carries its octopus across the accompanying accessories.

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OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond Platinum-Gold – Key Specs

• Reference: 210.83.42.20.03.001
• Case: Platinum-gold
• Diameter: 42 mm
• Thickness: 14.29 mm
• Dial: 18K white gold with blue PVD gradient and gun-barrel pattern
• Bezel: Polished blue ceramic with platinum positive-relief diving scale
• Movement: OMEGA Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806 James Bond gold
• Power reserve: 55 hours
• Water resistance: 300 metres
• Strap: Dark blue alligator leather
• Rotor: Gun-barrel decoration in 18K Moonshine Gold and blue PVD
• Availability: Exclusive to one of 77 James Bond sets
• Set price: AUD $141,700

The James Bond platinum-gold model takes the relatively restrained steel watch and gives it the full black-tie treatment. The familiar aluminium wave dial disappears, replaced by an 18K white-gold dial with a blue PVD gradient and gun-barrel pattern, while the steel case makes way for platinum-gold.

Similar upgrades appear around the bezel, with a polished blue ceramic ring carrying the diving scale in platinum, raised above the surface in the same positive-relief style. Then there’s the rotor, which gets a gun-barrel decoration finished in Moonshine Gold and blue PVD.

There’s also a dark blue alligator strap instead of steel mesh, which pushes it away from tool-watch territory and makes the whole thing feel considerably dressier. At roughly 203 grams, though, nobody will mistake it for a lightweight option.

You can’t buy it on its own, either. It comes only as part of one of the 77 numbered James Bond sets alongside the matching steel model, with both watches carrying the same limited-edition number.

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OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M Spectre Platinum-Gold – Key Specs

• Reference: 210.83.42.20.01.001
• Case: Platinum-gold
• Diameter: 42 mm
• Thickness: 14.29 mm
• Dial: 18K white gold with dark-grey PVD gradient and octopus pattern
• Bezel: Polished black ceramic with platinum positive-relief diving scale
• Movement: OMEGA Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8806 Spectre gold
• Power reserve: 55 hours
• Water resistance: 300 metres
• Strap: Black alligator leather
• Rotor: Blackened rotor with Spectre logo in 18K Moonshine Gold
• Availability: Exclusive to one of 77 Spectre sets
• Set price: AUD $141,700

If the good guys aren’t doing it for you, the Spectre platinum-gold model takes the same precious-metal formula and removes most of the colour. Its 18K white-gold dial gets a dark-grey PVD gradient with the octopus worked directly across the surface, while the polished black ceramic bezel carries its diving scale in platinum.

Around the back, the rotor is blackened before OMEGA drops a Moonshine Gold Spectre logo on top, so even the movement keeps the villainous black-and-gold theme going.

A black alligator strap finishes the job, making this considerably more formal than the steel Spectre model while keeping the darker look intact.

Like the Bond version, it isn’t available separately. If you want Spectre’s platinum-gold Seamaster, you’re buying the full two-watch set.

Bond and Spectre Together At Last

It’s the first time the brand has brought Bond and Spectre together, with OMEGA President and CEO Raynald Aeschlimann pointing out that both sides have always belonged to the same story. “Our customers have always known both sides of it. Now they can wear both,” he said.

The new OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M James Bond and Spectre collection is available now through OMEGA boutiques and online. The stainless-steel Bond and Spectre models are priced at AUD $13,575 each, while the two-watch limited-edition sets are limited to 77 Bond and 77 Spectre examples, priced at AUD $141,700 each.

At that price, choosing between good and evil might actually be the easy part.