Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph "007 First Light" — First James Bond Diver Chronograph in History

Description

Omega has introduced the Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph "007 First Light" — the first chronograph variant of the Seamaster Diver 300M ever issued under the James Bond banner, ending more than three decades during which the modern Bond Seamaster Diver has been strictly a time-and-date watch. The release is timed to the 27 May 2026 launch of 007 First Light, the new action-adventure video game from IO Interactive (the studio behind the Hitman series) in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, and it is the real-world counterpart to a watch worn in-game by a 26-year-old Bond at the start of his career.

For collectors the headline is unambiguous: this is a historical first. The last Bond Seamaster chronograph dates to the mid-1990s, on a different platform, and no Seamaster Diver 300M chronograph has ever carried 007 codes until now. The watch slots between the standard Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph and the studio-tie collaborations in Omega's lineup — a serial reference rather than a numbered edition — and is priced at US$ 9,400 / EUR 9,200 (inc. VAT) / CHF 7,300 (ex. VAT).

Read alongside the rest of Omega's 2026 catalogue, the First Light reads as a deliberate generational handshake. James Bond's first cinematic Omega was the Submariner-rivalling Seamaster Pro of GoldenEye in 1995; thirty years later, Omega is using the Seamaster Diver 300M to greet the audience that will meet Bond for the first time through a controller, not a film projector.

Design

Outwardly, the case retains the architecture of the standard Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph — 44 mm in diameter, 17 mm thick, lug-to-lug just under 53 mm, with the brand's familiar twisted lugs, polished bevels, and brushed top surfaces, and the unmistakable conical helium-escape valve at 10 o'clock. The unidirectional black ceramic bezel carries a Liquidmetal diving scale and a luminous pip at 12, and the screw-down crown sits at 3 o'clock with screw-down chronograph pushers above and below.

It is on the dial that the 007 codes come through. A matte black laser-engraved Seamaster wave pattern fills the field, rhodium-plated indices and hands carry crisp white Super-LumiNova, and at 3 o'clock the combined 12-hour / 60-minute totaliser sub-dial is finished in two-tone — black with a Bronze Gold PVD ring. Omega has used the same warm tone for the central chronograph seconds hand, which sweeps over the dial and visually ties the two registers together. The running seconds sit at 9, and a date window appears at 6. The watch is supplied on a black, grey and beige striped NATO-style fabric strap — the same colour code as the strap Sean Connery wore in Dr. No and Daniel Craig revived in No Time To Die — closed by a Grade 5 titanium pin buckle and keepers engraved "007" and "FIRST LIGHT".

Specifications

Brand and model: Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph "007 First Light"
Case diameter: 44 mm
Case thickness: 17 mm
Lug-to-lug: ~52.9 mm
Case material: stainless steel, polished and brushed finishes
Bezel: unidirectional black ceramic, Liquidmetal diving scale
Crystal: sapphire with internal AR coating
Caseback: sapphire display
Water resistance: 300 m
Helium-escape valve: yes, at 10 o'clock
Dial: matte black, laser-engraved Seamaster wave pattern; rhodium indices and hands; bronze-gold PVD totaliser ring at 3
Lume: white Super-LumiNova
Movement: Omega Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9900 (in-house)
Movement type: automatic integrated chronograph
Certification: METAS Master Chronometer (resistance to magnetic fields up to 15,000 gauss)
Architecture: column wheel, twin barrels, free-sprung balance
Frequency: 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
Power reserve: 60 hours
Finishing: Geneva Waves in arabesque on bridges
Strap: black, grey and beige NATO-style striped fabric, Grade 5 titanium pin buckle engraved "007" / "FIRST LIGHT"
Limited edition: no (serial production)
Price: US$ 9,400 / EUR 9,200 (inc. VAT) / CHF 7,300 (ex. VAT)
Availability: from 27 May 2026, alongside the launch of the 007 First Light video game

What's Exciting

Three things make this release worth paying attention to. First, the historical first — there has never been a Seamaster Diver 300M chronograph in the Bond line, and no Bond chronograph at all on the Seamaster platform since the GoldenEye-era pieces. That makes the First Light a piece of horological 007 history the moment it ships, not a piece that has to age into significance. Second, the bronze-gold PVD totaliser is the cleanest piece of "0–0–7" dial code Omega has ever issued: it reads as a watch first and a tie-in second, and avoids the heavy badging that has weakened some recent Bond editions. Third, the gaming tie-in is genre-shifting. This is the first James Bond watch born inside a video game rather than a film, and the choice of IO Interactive — a studio fluent in long-form, mature spy storytelling — signals that Omega is taking the medium seriously, not simply licensing it.

At US$ 9,400 it is also priced like a serial Seamaster Diver chronograph, not a "collectors-only" tie-in. That keeps it in the conversation as a watch to buy and wear, not just to hoard.

History

Omega's relationship with James Bond began in GoldenEye (1995), when costume designer Lindy Hemming swapped Bond's Rolex Submariner for an Omega Seamaster Professional 300M (Ref. 2541.80) on a steel bracelet. Every subsequent on-screen Bond watch — through Brosnan, Craig, and the streaming-era spin-offs — has been an Omega. The Seamaster Diver 300M has been the spine of that relationship: refreshed in 2018 with the in-house Master Chronometer Calibre 8800, anchored by the 2020 "No Time To Die" Titanium edition with its tropic strap, and most recently extended by the lineup of Bond-coded blue, grey and white-gold editions through the Craig era.

What the line has never included until now is a chronograph. The chronograph variant of the Seamaster Diver 300M was introduced in 2019, a year after the time-and-date 2018 generation; it has so far sat outside the 007 storyline. The First Light closes that gap and does so by stepping outside cinema entirely — a deliberate generational pivot for a franchise that is, after sixty-three years on screen, looking for a way to greet the next decade of fans.