Feature: The Watches Bond Villains Should Have Worn
In No Time to Die, James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, wears an Omega Seamaster Diver 007 edition, the latest in a long line of exemplary watches worn by the character. Indeed, you’d have to have lived in a sealed underground bunker for the last 50 years to be unaware that Bond’s wrist has mostly been adorned by Rolex and Omega, but the watches of his enemies have been given far less attention. We’ve selected five iconic Bond villains and teamed them up with the perfect timepiece.
Auric Goldfinger: Rolex Day-Date Yellow Gold
Often hailed the best in the series, Goldfinger featured the eponymous villain Auric Goldfinger, a golf-playing megalomaniac best known for two things: suffocating a woman to death by covering her in gold paint and almost lasering 007’s crown jewels to a smouldering crisp. Gold-obsessed and power-hungry, he’d have found his perfect match with a yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date, otherwise known as the ‘President’. It’s a watch oozing prestige and wealth.
Jaws: Panerai Radiomir
To carry off one of the larger Panerai watches you need wrists like a python, mid-meal. Step forward man-mountain, Jaws, probably the only Bond villain capable of wearing a 47mm Radiomir 1940 with aplomb. A man of precious few words but plenty of teeth—metal ones—this seven-foot human monolith could chomp through steel cables the way Panerai-wearing Italian frogmen tore holes in battleships during World War II.
Raoul Silva: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso
Arguably the best Daniel Craig Bond film to date, Skyfall benefits from the mesmerising presence of Javier Bardem’s deliciously camp villain, Raoul Silva. Radiating charisma and a certain rakish charm at first, he later unveils himself to have been hideously disfigured by the hydrogen cyanide pill he tried to kill himself with while under torture. Two-faced, debonair, yet robust enough to take a battering, there can be only one watch for Raoul–Jaeger-LeCoultre's iconic Reverso.
Francisco Scaramanga: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph Rose Gold
In The Man With the Golden Gun, Francisco Scaramanga is an international assassin who kills with a handgun ingeniously assembled from a gold cigarette case and lighter. In the 1974 film he can be seen wearing a wafer-thin gold Rolex Cellini Midas. But if they ever remake it for a modern audience, they might want to consider giving the character a rose gold Audemars Piguet Royal Oak chronograph, its trio of subdials a subtle nod to Scaramanga’s unusual physical characteristic: three nipples.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Patek Philippe World Timer
As the leader of a global crime syndicate, Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a man who need not concern himself with such trifling matters as owning the most show-stopping watch in the room. What he requires is something exquisitely made yet understated, a watch that keeps track of multiple international time zones while looking the part when mingling with dubious despots and high-ranking members of the criminal underworld. A World Timer from Patek Philippe is just the ticket.
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