David Dencik wears an Omega De Ville

Valdo Obruchev is the soft-spoken monster of No Time to Die: the Spectre scientist who built Heracles, a swarm of nanobots that can be coded to a single person's DNA and then spread through a crowd by touch. David Dencik plays him as a nervous, bespectacled academic, the sort of man who apologizes while handing the world a new way to kill anyone it chooses. He is the most dangerous man in the MI6 laboratory, and the least threatening to look at.

His watch keeps the same low profile. It is an Omega De Ville Trésor, reference 432.53.40.21.02.004, from the dress side of the catalog rather than the tool side: forty millimeters of 18-karat white gold, a silvery opaline dial worked in a fine clous de Paris hobnail with a date at six, a hand-wound Master Co-Axial movement behind a sapphire back. Water-resistant to just thirty meters, and about nineteen thousand dollars new. Bond Lifestyle, which tracks every watch in the series, first logged it as steel, then corrected itself: the Trésor of that era was precious metal only.

Omega dressed both sides of the movie. Bond gets the Seamaster Diver 300M, titanium, built for the sea and a fight. The man who engineered a way to kill anyone on Earth gets a dress watch from the same brand, white gold, water-resistant to a tenth as much. The field agent wears three hundred meters of titanium. The scientist who never leaves the lab wears thirty meters of gold.