A View to a Kill (1985)

A View to a Kill

The fourteenth James Bond film and Roger Moore's last. Bond investigates microchip magnate Max Zorin, whose plan to destroy Silicon Valley culminates in a fight on the Golden Gate Bridge. (IMDb)

Watches

Seiko 7A38-7060

Worn by Roger Moore as James Bond. In the pre-title sequence, relaxing in the iceberg-disguised submarine after the Siberia ski chase, Bond wears a white-dial Seiko quartz chronograph on a steel bracelet. The watch was long identified as the 7A28-7020, but a high-definition re-examination credited to @rexworthywatches found a day-date window that instead fits the 7A38-7060, the day-date development of the same movement family; the window is not conclusively legible in available frames, so the 7A38-7060 identification is probable rather than confirmed. Either candidate carries Seiko's 7A-series calibre, the first analog quartz chronograph movement, a fitting close to the brand's nine-year Bond partnership in Moore's final film. (Bond Lifestyle) Montres de Luxe (2021) is one such source repeating the traditional 7A28-7020 identification, predating the day-date re-examination. (Montres de Luxe) Forumamontres collector Hawk, buying an example for his Bond collection in September 2018, still gives the film's white-dial chronograph as the Seiko 7A28-7020, the older identification. (Forumamontres) Watches of Espionage's Caleb Daniels repeats the traditional 7A28 7020 reading for the white-dial chronograph in the submarine scene. (Watches of Espionage) Quill & Pad, which still gives the traditional 7A28-7020 reading, adds a second sighting: the chronograph "is also briefly in the picture later on in the movie when Bond battles Zorin on the Golden Gate Bridge". (Quill & Pad; archived capture)

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Seiko H558-500

Worn by Roger Moore as James Bond. Quill & Pad identifies a Seiko H558-500 digital-analog quartz diver tucked under Bond's tuxedo cuff during the Eiffel Tower and Paris chase sequence with May Day. (Quill & Pad) Watches of Espionage names the H558-5000 "Arnie", worn twice, in the ski escape and the Eiffel Tower chase, and notes that a KGB agent in the film wears the same Seiko in a clearer shot than any of Bond's. (Watches of Espionage)

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Seiko 6923-8080

Worn by Roger Moore as James Bond. Quill & Pad, confirming with Seiko UK, identifies a two-tone Seiko 6923-8080 quartz dress watch as Bond's on entering Max Zorin's château, though the source stresses the watch "is not visible at all" beyond its crown and case flank in the shot. (Quill & Pad) Watches of Espionage names the 6923-8080 SPD094 in the Zorin chateau scenes, calling the design Seiko's budget take on the Datejust. (Watches of Espionage)

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Rolex Datejust

Worn by Roger Moore as James Bond. When Bond checks co-conspirator Sir Godfrey Tibbett (Patrick Macnee) for a pulse in the back of a Rolls-Royce, the watch clearly visible on his own wrist is a Rolex Datejust rather than any of his scripted Seikos. Quill & Pad is explicit that this was not a costume choice: it identifies the Datejust as Moore's personal watch, worn unintentionally into a shot it "shouldn't even have been in." The reference and generation are not given. (Quill & Pad) Forumamontres members add detail without a frame: Hawk places the Datejust at 6 minutes 42 seconds, calls it Moore's own watch and, on acquiring one in March 2019, gives it as a steel-and-gold 16013 with a Buckley dial; Pepito64 quotes a book on the film listing a gold-and-steel Datejust beside the two Seikos; and Yann171819 repeats the story that the production had planned a Seiko SPD094 for the château scenes before Moore substituted his Datejust. (Forumamontres; Forumamontres; Forumamontres; Forumamontres; Forumamontres) Watches of Espionage likewise says stills show that Moore "accidentally wore (or perhaps wore due to prop unavailability) his personal Datejust in place of the Seiko". (Watches of Espionage) Teddy Baldassarre's guide to the Bond watches places Moore's own Datejust in a different scene, the "climactic showdown scene on the Golden Gate Bridge", which it says "most observers believe", and concludes that it is "somewhat unclear how many scenes were 'Seiko' and how many were 'Rolex.'" Quill & Pad instead puts the white-dial Seiko chronograph on the bridge. (Teddy Baldassarre; Quill & Pad; archived capture)

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