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MI6 rounds up the details of the new Swatch 007 Villains
collection of watches launched to coincide with Quantum
of Solace...
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Swatch 007 Villains Watches (3)
20th December 2008
Celebrating the legendary British secret agent’s
most memorable adversaries, the Swatch 007 Villain Collection
presents twenty-two Swatch watches inspired by the best of the
worst: the bad guys Bond fans love to hate.
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Launch 007 Villains Watches
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007 Villains Watches (1)
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007 Villains Watches (2)
GEORGI KOSKOV — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (SUJK139)
Bond does battle in The Living Daylights
with Georgi Koskov, a corrupt Soviet general who deals
in drugs and weapons. The textile strap of this wickedly
cold-war Swatch Jelly in Jelly, inspired by Soviet military
insignia, features red and beige vertical stripes and three
gold stars on either side of the frosted transparent plastic
case. The painted red dial extends the Soviet-era cold
war theme with a shiny gold emblem, reminiscent of Red
Army medals, outlined in light grey and surrounded by gold-dot
hour markers circled in light grey at all hours but 6 and
12. In the absence of all numerals, silver hour and minute
hands and thin silver seconds hand mark the time.
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FRANZ SANCHEZ — LICENCE TO KILL (YCS512)
James Bond’s chief antagonist in
Licence To Kill is drug dealer Franz Sanchez. In a nod
to Sanchez and his green pet iguana, the moulded leather
strap of this tropical Irony Chrono has a bright green
lizard-skin pattern. The strap stitching and 007 pistol
logo on the loop form an effective contrast in white. Mounted
on the brushed stainless steel case is a pink stainless
steel bezel with a white minute ring. A second white minute
ring appears on the black ring circumscribing the silver
dial, whose vertical stripes recall the striped silk shirt
that Sanchez wears. Embossed silver Arabic numerals mark
hours 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12, and a white-on-black
date window appears at hour 4. The chrono and continuous
seconds counters emerge from the dial’s grooved silver
centre and feature grooved black dials, white numerals
and indices, and green hands. The counters are ringed in
white and green and linked by a green circle on which white
Arabic numerals (13, 16, 20, 21, 23) and white dots indicate
the hours. Silver squelette metal hour and minute hands
and a slim pink chrono seconds hand mark the time.
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XENIA ONATOPP — GOLDENEYE (SUBB122)
GoldenEye features the villainous Xenia
Zaragevna Onatopp, a former Soviet fighter pilot who does
her best to crush the gentleman spy to death with her killer
thighs. The black leather strap of this delightfully nasty-looking
Square features the tone-in-tone 007 pistol logo micro-injected
on the 12 o’clock side and evokes Onatopp’s
military gear by means of shiny metal buttons with stars
in relief, and steely studs that snap to close. The plastic
case is a glossy black frame around the sunbrushed crimson
dial, which features a printed pattern structured to form
a red star that evokes, once again, the Moscow connection.
Printed silver Arabic numerals mark hours 3, 6, 9 and 12.
Tapered silver hour and minute hands and a delicate black
seconds hand mark the time.
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ELLIOT CARVER — TOMORROW NEVER DIES
(SUJK138)
The bad guy in Tomorrow Never Dies is
Elliot Carver, an international media baron scheming to
wreak havoc on a global scale. The power of the media figures
prominently on this graphic Swatch Jelly in Jelly whose
plastic strap features a bold and dynamic collage of tabloid
newspaper headlines, articles and photographs evoking a “tomorrow” that
promises nothing but trouble. The clear plastic strap has
two plastic loops; one features the 007 pistol log in red,
the other has the blue and red Carver Media empire logo.
The clear plastic case frames a see-through plastic dial
revealing the movement beneath it. Printed white skeleton
Arabic numerals with blue infills mark all hours, with
hours 5, 6, 7 and 8 partially obscured by a black “TOP
SECRET” stamp that extends from the dial to the six
o’clock side of the strap. White hour and minute
hands and a slim white central seconds hand mark the time.
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ELEKTRA KING — THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (GE215)
Sophie Marceau plays the treacherous
Elektra King, the bad girl Bond outwits in The World Is
Not Enough. Inspired by one of King’s shawls, the
moulded textile strap of this intricate Gent features dark
blue and blood-red threaded patterns embroidered upon a
beige ground. The beige fabric loop shows the 007 pistol
logo embroidered in dark blue, and three small stainless
steel charms with blood-red synthetic resin inlays set
with transparent white crystals dangle from the strap.
The clear plastic case frames a sunbrushed silver dial
on which the patterns from the strap are taken up in the
same dark blue and blood red colours and complemented by
grey-dot indices marking hours 1 through 6, 11 and 12.
In the absence of all numerals, tie-shaped reflective metal
hour and minute hands and a slim metal seconds hand mark
the time.
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ZAO — DIE ANOTHER DAY (SFK327G)
Bond’s chief antagonists in Die
Another Day are a man called Moon and his henchman Zao,
marked forever by diamonds blasted into his face. The signature
scars appear on this Skin in the form of aurora boreal
crystals set in stainless steel links that show engraved
slashes; the slashes and bracelet end pieces have a textured ‘hammered
silver’ surface; set off in polished steel on the
6 o’clock end piece is the 007 pistol logo. The transparent
plastic case frames a sunbrushed silver dial with stylized
applique silver Arabic numerals at hours 3, 6, 9 and 12;
aurora boreal crystals mark all other hours. Tapered black
hour and minute hands mark the time.
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LE CHIFFRE — CASINO ROYALE (YGS128)
Gambler, math whiz and banker to terrorists,
Le Chiffre weeps blood while attempting to bankrupt Bond
in a poker game in Casino Royale. The shimmering black
synthetic leather strap of this elegant Irony Big recalls
Le Chiffre’s black tux at the gaming table, while
the black leather loop displays a silver 007 pistol logo.
Mounted on the brushed stainless steel case is a stainless
steel bezel engraved to highlight a delicate motif. The
sunbrushed anthracite dial features a dark grey Ace of
Spades in the centre, with printed black Arabic numerals
at hours 3 and 9, red hearts at hours 1 and 7, black clubs
at 2 and 8, black spades at 4 and 10, red diamonds marking
hours 5 and 11, and a black capital A (for Ace) at 12 o’clock.
Tapered metal hour and minute hands with both engraved
and mirrored surfaces and a slim red central seconds hand
mark the time.
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DOMINIC GREENE — QUANTUM OF SOLACE (SUIB402)
Celebrating the latest dastardly villain to
take up arms against James Bond, this darkly elegant Swatch Chrono
Plastic presents the distinctive mark of Dominic Greene on a
black silicon strap with ivory silicon inserts leading up to
the matt black plastic case, which has ivory chrono pushers and
a matt black crown. The silicon loop features the famous 007
pistol logo and the words “Greene Planet” appear
in ivory on the 6 o’clock side of the strap. Mounted on
the case are a rotating black plastic bezel with silver Arabic
numerals (05, 10, 15 … 60) and a white tachymeter scale
on the narrow black flange. Subtly printed on the glossy black
dial we find the mark of Greene again as a backdrop to the prominent
white Arabic numerals at hours 4, 8 and 12 and black-on-white
date window at hour six. The chrono counters and continuous seconds
counter are ringed by white-on-ivory indices and feature grooved
black dials with white numerals and delicate silver hands. Tapered
silver hour and minute hands with superlite white highlights
and a central chrono seconds hand mark the time.
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