The Bond Watch Journey | The Do's and the Don'ts of the Hunt
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The journey of owning a Bond watch is an emotional one. It can be fraught with mishaps, pitfalls, and disappointments. BUT, when you engage a guide and storyteller who knows their stuff, it can be a pleasurable experience. Join me as I talk to Lorenzo from Omega Bond Watches and come explore the world of James Bond watches and ownership through the eyes of an expert and a hunter of the watches themselves!
To contact Lorenzo: lorenzo@omegabondwatches.com
His Instagram: / omegabondwatches
His KZread: / @omegabondwatches
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When David is not running an advertising and marketing company, his hobby is The Bond Experience which is primarily a video blog where he discusses Bond experiences and the people and brands that help to create those experiences...
The mantra of living like Bond, one moment at a time emanates from a concept of experiencing the joy of collecting small moments in life that add up to amazing journeys and stories....whether it's through style, locations, literature, fitness, and the movies themselves the world of Bond is explored through its people and their stories.
Ultimately though, The Bond Experience channel is a celebration of the James Bond franchise and the many people that form a true community. Our core mission is to create a strong connection in the Bond community amongst all the fans, regardless of interest or demographic.
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The Bond Experience is not affiliated with any James Bond copyright holder and is an unofficial entity.
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Stuck working at the moment, but I can't wait to watch this later. I just wanted to quickly say hello and say that I hope you and your family are well. Onwards, upwards and chin chin! T. P.s. I would love to have you back on my channel this year, it has been too long!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
It has been too long....let's make a date!
@CJ-kj5ep
2 жыл бұрын
Work? How ghastly!
Never in my life would I have thought I'd own an Omega due to the prices. I got extremely fortunate to get an unexpected chunk of military back pay. I splurged and bought a Seamaster 300 (ala Brosnan). Now I can't stop buying watches, although they are almost exclusively Seikos now.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
It snowballs!
Even though I am not a watch collector, or even wearer, I found this to be a fascinating interview / chat. The world of Bond is very much a portal through which one can appreciate and learn about a wide variety of things. Very well done fellas.
This was an excellent long form discussion about watch passion in general, not to mention the Bond connection. Well done guys!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Missed opportunity to call this video "The Dou Dous and Don'ts".
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Damn! You're right!
Lorenzo seems like a very likeable guy. And he is right, the experience going to an Omega boutique is so superior than most of the others including Rolex and that is something to really appreciate.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Lorenzo is da man!
@007cheburashka
2 жыл бұрын
Just don’t ask the Omega folks in boutique about the “Moonswatch”. Got some interesting reactions from them. 😆
Great advice, Lorenzo! I'm going to use it when buying my next watch.
Love Lorenzo's enthusiasm for these watches. They're all beauties.
Love this latest video. Two nice guys talking about Bond watches, great stories and very informative too. I did want an Omega but had to settle for the NTTD Q Swatch watch.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
The Q watch is fantastic!
@martinbarrett6249
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheBondExperience I love it too! Treated myself after watching your review. Loved the box.
Vary comprehensive knowledge from Lorenzo. Great video
I've found that the best bet is the secondary or gray market, especially if you've already had the whole first time buying from a boutique experience or wanting older/discontinued models. Depending on the seller you can still get that premium treatment at a discounted rate. In the last 4 months I bought a Rolex sub 114060, the spectre 300 and the skyfall PO off the secondary market. Patience, waiting, due diligence and saving saw me through.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Patience is key!
@fletchersykes1660
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheBondExperience absolutely!🙂
Fantastic video!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Next time I'm in vegas i am looking this guy up. Great job guys!!
As someone who recently acquired my absolute holy grail watch (the Planet Ocean 2500 that you reference from Quantum), the journey described in this video resonated so deeply with me. It is absolutely an emotional rollercoaster of a journey! Hodinkee actually did an article recently called The Nine Stages Of A Relationship With A Watch which captures a lot of the same sentiments you describe in the video. Best of luck finding your 2500 David - it is seriously a perfect watch and the 42mm size wears sooo nicely on the wrist.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
I have to find this article!
My lockdown project was collecting all the Roger Moore Seikos - didn’t expect to love The Spy Who Loved Me one the most!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
The Seikos are pure fun....good choice!
This was great advice and makes you question what tools go into your decision. I turned off my favorite show for this and I like this more!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
WOW! Thank you!
1 step from 60k subs, great as always gonna watch the vid 🥂
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
V Cool opening sequence David! You got the new lettering according to the latest movie! Great Job, Bond!
Great video thanks! Love the watch content! I have 2 Bond watches and want more!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Nice!
Brilliant chat David & Lorenzo. Really enjoyed that and your right the experience of the brand Omega is excellent compared to some other high end brands.
Hey I like this guy! I’ve been in the “process “ but I think I’m going to try and enlist his help! Great talk fellas!
Terrific stuff. Love the discussion with Lorenzo, David. Night and day the experience between Omega and Rolex. Wish the Goldeneye quartz and automatic versions of the Brosnan watch were covered. Maybe next time.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, good point!
great story !!!
Really enjoyed this episode. In the preowned market, always buy the seller first. Cheers
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Great advice!
What a fantastic video and a great interview. Lorenzo seems like a fantastic guy and his passion is inspiring. I’m looking to trade in my Tag and get an Omega soon
Unfortunately you are right about Rolex and their boutique behavior. Rolex is pushing themselves into the AP & Patek market with a focus on exclusivity. While Omega has always given excellent customer service in my personal experience. I would say stick to Omega they come across as a “cooler” more interesting brand to wear.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it was a strange experience.
God points for the search. I must start on the next one.
Yeah! I want a Quantum of Solace watch too!
I really missed out on that Specter special edition watch and have regret it ever since.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they went quick!
This Guest Needs to Start a Watch Channel!!!!
@omegabondwatches
2 жыл бұрын
Have one ( @omegabondwatches ) but need to make more videos! Time is at a premium right now with a wedding around the corner. Thanks for the compliment 😊
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
He has one! :)
I love watches and love james bond. I have a channel dedicated to watch reviews and made a video on the SMP 300m.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds great!
@Ripire
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheBondExperience Thank you for the response :) Ive watched the channel for a while and love your enthusiasm. If you could spare a minute, to take a look at Ripires Reviews and let Me know what you think?
In 2011 I bought an Omega Seamaster 2541.80 (Goldeneye Quartz) for $1,300. LOVED it but fell on hard times 3 years later when I joined the army. Pawned it for $300 but didn't have the cash to pay the vig the next month so the manager kept it. $300 for a mint condition 2541.80!! She gloated how she was going to give it to her boyfriend. It made me sick to my stomach for days. Today it sells used for over $4,000! I doubt I'll ever get another one at it breaks my heart that I had to let it go at all, let alone so cheap.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes....we all have that ONE...
STUPENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Okay... (I'm literally commenting in real time as I watch this video), I understand that maybe the NTTD watch isn't that much more expensive than a comparable titanium watch from Omega, but if the "Bond Mark-up" isn't a thing - what explains the price difference between the Spectre Seamaster 300 and the regular Seamaster 300? The ONLY difference is the bezel insert, yet the Bond version is literally TWICE the price.
@omegabondwatches
2 жыл бұрын
Retail price Standard 300 - $6,800 Spectre 300 Limited Edition - $7,500 Nato included ($220) After you consider the limited edition 7,007 piece only. With the remaining $480 Things to consider: Bi-Directional 12 Hour GMT bezel Locking themed watch box Limited of 7,007 Watch spring bar tool Loupe All things considered it’s still just small difference from $480
@cpickell1987
2 жыл бұрын
@@omegabondwatches I stand corrected! Perhaps what I'm witnessing is more of a disparity on the secondhand market - and it would make obvious sense that the Spectre edition would appreciate and the standard would depreciate.
Think this was as much an education to DZ as it was for us. He would have bought the bond watch anyway blissfully unaware of its engineering innovation and technical capability. Such is our obsession.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Always an education for me!
There's a Bond club with 70s stuff?? I really need to visit.
David, is that the Orlebar Brown mallory silk?
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
It is! "What sharp little eyes you have...!"
Which one is he wearing?
@omegabondwatches
2 жыл бұрын
I’m wearing a SMP diver 300m James Bond Collectors piece that came out during Quantum of Solace. It was my first timepiece
Man I would love to get some Omega watches. Just not in the cards for me financially. Maybe one day.
Is the movement titanium, though? Because there's titanium-cased field watches out there for $120... It's not an overly expensive material.
@jaysterling26
2 жыл бұрын
I have several titanium watches. It's the not the element which is the issue- it's just that unless coated it will probably be a very stratched -up timepiece compared to a stainless steel timepiece. I recommend a Casios Oceanus titanium.
eBay’s authentication is a joke. No one in the watch industry knows who is handling it and numerous fakes have gotten past their incompetence.
I believe Omega got the watches wrong for Bond on a number of occasions. The planet oceans etc are spot on for undercover jeans/combats/chinos bond. The Seamster Chrono 321 in Spectre.. 👌 But the NATO strap 300 and large divers with fine business suits / dinner suits is silly. 👎 The occasions with an aqua Terra work but better placed would have been a Constellation Globemaster or DeVille.
@bond-suits
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I think that a diver can work beautifully with a suit, but not on a NATO. I'd never wear a diver with a dinner suit. People like to point to Connery doing it in Goldfinger, but he was diving in his dinner jacket so it made sense. Until I do that, I'll never wear a tool watch with a dinner suit.
@King_Harrold
2 жыл бұрын
@@bond-suits yes I have a Tudor Black Bay 58 Navy Blue which wears nicely with a suit. I have a larger Tudor GMT that doesn't really go with a suit so that my Chino and t-shirt watch. I have only had need to wear a dinner suit once, and borrowed a simple all black leather strap watch. Right tool for the right occasion. Sadly coming back to Omega, they missed the mark and to showcase more of their collection.
@bond-suits
2 жыл бұрын
@@King_Harrold I don't think it would be reasonable for Omega to showcase more of their collection on Bond. Sure, they could sell more watches if they did, but I like that Bond doesn't usually travel with multiple watches. Most men don't travel with multiple watches (Lorenzo excluded), and think it's more realistic for Bond not to have too many watches.
@zerominuseleven
2 жыл бұрын
@@bond-suits i’m glad the NATO strap with a suit did not return after spectre. What an awful look. One of several elements that will no doubt age poorly.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
A lot of people agree with you!
Rolex have gone stale. Omega are constantly evolving and improving and deserve to be the ongoing supplier of watches to James Bond. I'm so proud every time I wear my Omega.
Great video guys! I am looking for a "Timepiece" to add to my Average Collection. It will be an Omega. Probably AquaTerra, also I would settle a beat up GoldenEye 300M!
Is the “for me” a bill burr ref?
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Nah, a Luke Taggart ref.
What's the best bond book to read?
@HOTD108_
2 жыл бұрын
I can only speak for my own personal opinion, but I'd say From Russia With Love and On Her Majestys are great reads.
@niels25chr1
2 жыл бұрын
I agree with Richard Nixon. From Russia With Love and OHMSS are two of the best - however I became interested in the novels the are more unlike the movies such like Live and let die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever and especially the Short stories from For Your Eyes Only. The Hildebrand Rarity is a great read.
@martinbarrett6249
2 жыл бұрын
My favourite Fleming novel has been Moonraker.
@HOTD108_
2 жыл бұрын
@@martinbarrett6249 Then along came Cubby with his "science fact" lol
@scoobers90
2 жыл бұрын
I think FRWL and Moonraker are the best, but they're all good! The last couple are definitely not as strong, but still enjoyable reads.
I think Bond if there was a Bond in real life would have worn a black Tudor Pelagos. Like the modern day Rolex Submariner. It doesn't attract a ton of attention either.
@TheBondExperience
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds nice!
He paid $10.5k for a watch that says 007 on it😂
Omega makes several fine watches but they've never made a good watch for Bond and the producers should have never sold out and gone with them. The tragic and unholy marriage between 007 and the Big O only grew out of a deal between Bond's money men and a respected but not legendary watch maker. When he's not being bribed into wearing product placement the real cinematic Bond wears two watches: a 36mm Rolex Submariner with no date complication when he's expecting action, and a Gruene 510 Precision when he wants a proper dress watch to wear on one of his gorgeous suits. Gruenes are relatively easy to acquire for only a few hundred dollars, but if you can't afford a$250,000 late 50s Submariner, just get a new San Martin Diver 6200 for around 250.00. It's a much closer, and far more attractive Submariner rip-off than all those clunky, oversized Submariner rip-offs that Omega produces. Seriously: the San Martin 6200 is a far better looking watch, and far closer to the spirit and the letter of the real Bond's watches of choice. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYOs09auct25YrQ.html&ab_channel=Ripire%27sReview%27s
It's a watch not a child 🤣
Did this guy just roll out of bed?