Daniel Craig wearing Omega Seamaster De Ville in Knives Out
Confirmed sighting

Daniel Craig wears an Omega Seamaster

Spotted as Benoit Blanc in Knives Out, 2019.

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Film
Knives Out (2019)
Actor
Daniel Craig
Character
Benoit Blanc
Watch
Omega Seamaster De Ville
Status
Confirmed

As James Bond, Daniel Craig wore modern Omega Seamasters, Planet Oceans and Diver 300Ms and Aqua Terras, current-production references supplied through one of the longest-running brand partnerships in cinema. As Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson's Knives Out, he wears the opposite: a vintage Omega Seamaster De Ville in gold, with a gold pie-pan dial, on a textured dark brown leather strap. Same brand as Bond, and the inverse of everything Bond stands for.

Blanc is everything Bond is not, soft-spoken and Southern and fond of cable-knit sweaters, more interested in listening than fighting. Where Bond gets a 42mm dive watch on a NATO, Johnson puts Craig in a small round vintage case, a dress watch for a gentleman detective, the kind of piece a man inherits rather than buys. It reads as quiet taste, which is exactly how Blanc works. He solves the case by being underestimated. The trilogy keeps the thread going, too: the vintage De Ville here gives way to an Omega Seamaster 1948 in Glass Onion, each dress watch a little smaller and quieter than anything Bond ever strapped on.

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