From October 5 to November 8, the OMEGA boutique in Glendale becomes home to the Timeless Adversaries James Bond and Spectre Exhibition, the first OMEGA exhibition to bring James Bond and Spectre together. For five weeks only, visitors can walk the two archives built to face each other, one for James Bond and the other for Spectre, filled with more than twenty original props from seven James Bond films. The archives lead into a room of watches where six timepieces from the OMEGA Museum in Switzerland are shown alongside the new James Bond and Spectre editions. The exhibition is open to all.

Inspired by archival systems, each side is built as a run of shelving that displays the props as seen in the feature films, which lead into a room. There, the stainless steel James Bond Edition and the Spectre Edition are shown together. An AI photo booth offers two moods, James Bond and Spectre, and each visitor chooses one for a single portrait.

Six watches have left the archives of the OMEGA Museum in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, for the exhibition, and together they follow James Bond's Seamaster from 2002 to 2015.

Two are the models James Bond wore on screen.

The Seamaster Diver 300M of 2006 is the model he wore in Casino Royale, a subtle update of the watch he first wore in GoldenEye in 1995, with its blue dial (2222.80.00).

The Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M of 2012 is the model he wore in Skyfall, with a black ceramic diving bezel, the Seamaster name picked out in orange and the Co-Axial calibre 8500 visible through its sapphire caseback (232.30.42.21.01.001).

The other four are limited editions, each produced in a number ending in 007.

The Seamaster 300M Limited Series of 2002 marked 40 years of James Bond in the year of Die Another Day, with a 007gun logo on its blue dial and a caseback engraved with the anniversary and the number 20, for the twentieth film. It was limited to 10,007 pieces (2537.80.00).

The Seamaster Diver 300M Limited Series of 2006 celebrated Casino Royale with the 007 gun logo on its caseback and as the counterweight of its seconds hand, again in 10,007 pieces (2226.80.00). The Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Limited Edition of 2012 celebrated Skyfall in 5,007 pieces, with the 007 gun logo in place of the seven on the dial and "Skyfall 007" on its rotor (232.30.42.21.01.004).

The Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M Limited Edition of 2015 was released ahead of Spectre in 15,007 pieces, around a Master Co-Axial movement that resists magnetic fields of 15,007 gauss (231.10.42.21.03.004).

The two facing displays hold original props from the James Bond archives, used in the making of seven James Bond films, from GoldenEye in 1995 to No Time to Die in 2021, rarely seen in public. Among the archive are James Bond’s passports he carried in Skyfall and Spectre, his identification pass, the cufflinks bearing his initials, the note reading "RUN" left for him in Quantum of Solace, and the key fob of the DB5 from No Time to Die. Visitors can see the ring worn by Spectre members in Spectre, bearing the octopus insignia, and several versions of the bionic eye built for No Time to Die.

Raynald Aeschlimann, President and CEO of OMEGA, says: " James Bond first wore an OMEGA in 1995, and for three decades we told the story from James Bond’s side. This time we wanted Spectre to have the same space. In Glendale, their two worlds are built as archives facing one another, and both lead to one room where the watches are shown together. Everyone has a James Bond and Spectre side, and I hope our visitors have as much fun finding theirs as we had building.”

The exhibition is open to the public from October 5 to November 8, during boutique opening hours, with no appointment required.

Image courtesy of OMEGA