While you’ll now have to wait until November 2020 to see No Time to Die (even Agent 007, it turns out, is no match for coronavirus COVID-19), you can get your hands on one of the film’s most stylish props this week: the watch worn by MI6’s famed quartermaster, Q.
Photo courtesy of Swatch
Thanks to a collab with Swatch, Bond’s go-to gadget supplier will be wearing a new custom-designed model, the Swatch Q, in No Time to Die. Designed by the film’s costume designer Suttirat Ann Larlarb, the watch is the perfect accompaniment to a tweed blazer, a lab coat and a room full of high-tech gadgetry. It features a cutout sun-brushed dial revealing the quartz movement inside, a subtle tartan plaid brown leather strap with red accents, a capital Q emblazoned on the dial but, sadly, no lasers, grappling hook cables or buzzsaws.
Photo courtesy of Swatch
The Swatch Q is one of seven new pieces created in honour of Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as Agent 007, each one designed for the aesthetics of a classic Bond film. In true Swatch style, the watch also comes packaged in a “high-tech” cardboard box styled to look like a tiny M16 computer terminal, complete with fake fingerprint scanner. It’s a fitting tribute to the man behind the international man of mystery.
