Roger Moore wears a Seiko 7A28-7020

The 7A28-7020 is the action watch in A View to a Kill, the quartz chronograph Moore wears during the climactic sequence on the Golden Gate Bridge, where Bond fights Max Zorin above San Francisco Bay. Some analysts have argued the watch may actually be the similar-looking 7A38-7060, which has a day/date window visible in high-definition stills, but both models share the same case shape and chronograph layout. What matters is that it is the last Seiko chronograph Bond would ever wear, and it appears in the last action sequence Moore would ever film as 007.

The 7A28 movement was Seiko's world-first analog quartz chronograph caliber, introduced in 1983. It was a genuine technical achievement, a quartz movement with a mechanical column wheel controlling the chronograph function, which gave it the smooth pusher feel of a traditional Swiss chronograph without the cost. The watch reads as a simple three-register chronograph on a steel bracelet, and without the Bond provenance it would be unremarkable. On Moore's wrist during the bridge scene, it is the most conventional watch the character has worn in years.

The 7A28-7020 chronograph, with its straightforward elapsed-time function, feels like the end of a fever dream, the franchise finally putting a normal watch on Bond's wrist, just in time for Moore to hand the role to someone else.