The new classics

James Bond, cinema’s most famous spy, is defined not by his actions or his deeds, but by his possessions. He saves, he kills, he seduces. But these are all standard actions for a host of other on-screen agents. Though when Bond does it, he does it in a Sunspel shirt with a Walther ‘PPK’ in hand and his taste for vodka martinis recently swapped for Bollinger Champagne. On his wrist, throughout it all, is an Omega watch.

It was Pierce Brosnan who first strapped on an Omega ‘Seamaster’ in – the 1995 reboot that ushered the spy into the modern era – and the dive watch has been on his wrist in every movie ever since. The finer details of the design might have evolved – not to mention the