Roger Moore wears a Seiko H357-5040

For Your Eyes Only (1981) is the Bond film that tried to course-correct after the space opera of Moonraker, and John Glen directed it as something closer to a Cold War thriller than a cartoon. Roger Moore's Bond is still quipping, but the stakes feel real for once: a British spy ship has sunk with an encryption device aboard, and both MI6 and the KGB want it. The film has one of the best pre-credits sequences in the franchise and a climbing scene on the Meteora monasteries that holds up four decades later.

The Seiko H357-5040 on Bond's wrist marks the era when Seiko had replaced Rolex as 007's official watch partner. Seiko's relationship with the franchise ran from 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me through the end of Moore's tenure, and the watches got increasingly gadget-friendly. The H357 is a hybrid analog-digital model with a small LCD window beneath the hands, Seiko's attempt to bridge traditional watchmaking and the digital future. It was a cutting-edge consumer product in 1981, and on Bond it reads as the kind of tech a government agency would issue to its best operative. The Seiko years don't have the prestige of the Rolex era or the marketing power of the Omega era, but they're honest about what Bond actually is: a government employee with good equipment, not a man who buys his own watches.