The Living Daylights (1987)

The Living Daylights

The fifteenth James Bond film and Timothy Dalton's first. Bond shepherds a defecting KGB general across the Iron Curtain and uncovers an arms-and-opium scheme running from Vienna to Afghanistan. (IMDb)

Watches

TAG Heuer Professional Night-Dive 980.031

Worn by Timothy Dalton as James Bond. The film sits in the gap between the Seiko era and Omega's arrival in 1995, with no credited watch partner, and Dalton's watch went unidentified for years. Bond-watch researchers, including Dell Deaton and Calibre 11, eventually matched the black case and fully luminous pale dial glimpsed during the Gibraltar opening (clearest as Bond grapples with the assassin in the careening Land Rover) to the black-PVD 1000-series Professional Night-Dive, reference 980.031. No frame resolves the dial logo, and Heuer was becoming TAG Heuer while the film was in production, with both dials at retail simultaneously, so the match to reference 980.031 remains probable and the exact printed logo unresolved. (Bond Lifestyle) Montres de Luxe separately corroborates a black-and-steel TAG Heuer Professional Night Dive as the new dive model of the era, without naming the reference. (Montres de Luxe) Forumamontres collector Hawk added a 980.031 to his Bond collection in October 2018 as the watch of the pre-title sequence. (Forumamontres) Forumamontres member Loïc G independently gave the watch of the opening sequence as the TAG Heuer 1000 reference 980.031 in April 2015, correcting nicolas21000's recollection of a Submariner 16800. (Forumamontres; Forumamontres; Forumamontres)

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Heuer Airline GMT

Worn by John Rhys-Davies as General Leonid Pushkin. Bond Lifestyle identifies the watch with which Pushkin summons his guard while Bond holds him at gunpoint as "a TAG Heuer Airline GMT", describing "a dark steel and gold case, a grey dial, gold bezel with 24 hours markings" and a dial that reads "AIRLINE HEUER Quartz 200 Meters GMT": a Heuer-signed piece, the outlet noting elsewhere that the TAG Group's purchase came in 1985. In the film it is a gadget, since "the watch's crown acts as the panic button" and, when it is pressed, "a red light starts blinking on the dial". The outlet gives no reference. (Bond Lifestyle; Bond Lifestyle)

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