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00:00 This is from Casino Royale.
00:02 - It's the watch I wore in Casino Royale.
00:03 - The name's Bond.
00:04 - James Bond.
00:10 - Hi, welcome to Dialed In.
00:13 I'm thrilled to welcome Daniel Craig to our studio today.
00:16 Multi-talented actor, stage and screen.
00:18 Most recently, you've seen him in Glass Onion.
00:21 - This crown clashed with the presence of Benoit Blanc.
00:25 - And he's brought along some of his watches.
00:28 (upbeat music)
00:31 - It's interesting that you've got Speedmaster
00:40 because obviously in your role as Bond,
00:42 it's much more known for the Seamaster.
00:45 - Yes.
00:46 - What is it about the Speedmaster that attracted you?
00:47 - Well, the moon thing, one.
00:49 I mean, just kind of the idea that this watch was designed.
00:52 The fact that it's, you know, you have to wind it.
00:54 It's sort of kind of has a,
00:55 it's sort of very mechanical and functional.
00:57 - And the winding thing,
00:58 you kind of have more of a relationship with it
01:00 when you have to wind it every day.
01:00 - Exactly, it's a really good thing to say.
01:02 You have a relationship with it.
01:03 I'd say that's exactly right.
01:04 - Although mine's clearly dysfunctional
01:06 'cause I forgot to wind it this morning.
01:07 - Well, that's another thing, that's a relationship.
01:09 I mean, it's right there, you know.
01:11 - How did you get started in watches in the first place?
01:13 - My father bought me a watch for my 18th birthday,
01:17 which was a vintage Amiga.
01:20 It was very beautiful and I wore it to death.
01:22 And unfortunately, I wore it so often
01:24 that one of the arms broke
01:26 and I lost it on the Wurlitzers in a fair,
01:28 which is stupid of me to be wearing a vintage Amiga
01:31 on the Wurlitzers, but that's it went.
01:33 - This is from Casino Royale.
01:35 - It's the watch I wore in Casino Royale.
01:37 - Which was in the very first clip,
01:39 which is the crane and the parkour.
01:41 - Exactly. - And the plane crashing.
01:42 - I think there were maybe,
01:43 I think it was probably about three of these.
01:46 And stunt guys wore them and I had this one.
01:50 And I'm sad to say, but it still had red clay on it
01:54 up until it's just gone.
01:56 - From that stuff? - I'd never cleaned it
01:58 from that set.
01:59 - And it's engraved from Michael G. Wilson
02:02 and Barbara Broccoli.
02:03 - They gave it to me afterwards and they kind of came
02:06 and so it's very, very precious to me.
02:08 But I never wear it.
02:09 I mean, it just fits too much.
02:11 - It's special, right?
02:12 And I read Barbara started working for her father,
02:15 Kirby, when she was 17 in the press department.
02:17 So she knows Bond just as well as anyone.
02:20 Did she guide you?
02:22 I know she approached you, right, for the role.
02:24 Is that right?
02:25 - Oh yeah.
02:26 I'd met Barbara, sadly, at Meet Your Friend,
02:29 Mary Selway, who was a casting director.
02:31 And Barbara had organized this wonderful kind of
02:34 sending off for Mary.
02:35 And we met there and she said,
02:36 "Will you come and have a cup of tea with me?"
02:38 I was like, "Okay."
02:40 And was that code for something?
02:41 Whatever it was.
02:42 And she said, "We want to keep you in this role."
02:46 Well, I went and laughed and it gets sort of, yeah.
02:50 I mean, but there we are.
02:52 - Yeah. - Yeah.
02:53 - This one's really intriguing.
02:55 And it sent me down the rabbit hole last night
02:57 at about 10.30.
02:59 It's a mid to late '60s Seamaster 300 diver.
03:05 But I don't think I've seen very many
03:06 which actually have the old script on it.
03:08 I may be wrong, but I think that's much rarer
03:10 than the ones that came in the late '60s.
03:12 - I hope you're right.
03:12 - How did you come by it?
03:14 - So I was in Budapest and I was filming Munich.
03:19 I'd already had the meeting with Barbara.
03:21 There wasn't an offer on the table,
03:22 but it was sort of like it was getting very close
03:24 to crunch time about whether or not
03:27 I was gonna kind of get involved.
03:28 And I saw it in the window of a shop in Budapest
03:31 and it was in a real state.
03:33 And in fact, if you look, I mean, you can see it there,
03:35 but there's sort of damage on the loom.
03:39 - On the loom. - Yeah.
03:40 - And it was sort of working
03:42 and I got totally taken to the clean.
03:44 - All right, now this one's a nice one.
03:46 This is the coaxial, master coaxial chronometer
03:51 from Spectre. - Yeah.
03:53 So what's nice about this one is, you can see,
03:57 this is not for sale, which means it's a prototype.
04:01 And I was a bit scared about bringing this one in today
04:05 'cause I thought they might ask for it back.
04:07 (laughing)
04:08 They may still do so.
04:10 - Cut that bit.
04:11 - I've got the lollipop version of that one as well,
04:14 which I was gonna bring in,
04:15 but I just thought that was much nicer
04:16 'cause I probably shouldn't own it.
04:19 - This one, I didn't even know this existed
04:22 until I saw a picture of this yesterday.
04:24 It's the Mammomatic.
04:26 Tell me about that.
04:27 - I love this sort of period
04:29 when, you know, that's television series, Space 1999.
04:32 They're sort of futuristic watches.
04:34 But what really appealed to me,
04:37 but this has got an alarm on it.
04:39 I had a watch years ago, I don't know what make it was.
04:41 It certainly wasn't an Amiga.
04:43 And it had an alarm on it
04:44 and that's how I used to get up in the morning.
04:45 I used to set it, put it by the bed and it would go.
04:47 But it would then go on my wrist
04:49 and I just thought that was the best.
04:50 - It's a little tinny mechanical alarm,
04:51 but it's actually quite pleasant.
04:53 - And it's just, I mean, kind of looks cool.
04:56 - Yeah.
04:57 - That's what I quite liked about it.
04:59 - This is from about '70s to '71s.
05:01 - Is that right?
05:02 It is about, yeah.
05:03 But again, it's that kind of,
05:04 that sort of sci-fi kind of thing.
05:08 And they put this rather chunky, but rather nice.
05:11 - I think a lot of it,
05:12 that design was in sort of follow up to the moon landings.
05:15 Everyone went space mad.
05:16 Oh, back on the moon.
05:17 - Yeah, again, that's.
05:18 - It's just the 40th anniversary of moon landing from 2009.
05:21 - Yeah, and that just, again,
05:23 that's just a tie into, you know,
05:26 that's the kind of the basic moon watch.
05:28 And then when I got a bit more money, I got that one.
05:32 'Cause it was like, you know,
05:33 it's just the commercial one.
05:35 And again, that's a conceit from it,
05:36 'cause the state of it, I wear it all the time.
05:37 So it's again, all these watches,
05:39 I mean, I don't tend to wear that off very often,
05:41 but I do, I wear all of these watches.
05:43 - I'm sure there's some that you sort of keep under lock
05:45 and key, but you'd really like to wear them rather than.
05:48 - I mean, what's the point?
05:50 You can't hide things away.
05:51 It's like a kind of, it's a bit kind of hoarding things.
05:54 I just like, I've got to get,
05:55 put them on your wrist and wear them,
05:57 get the function out of them.
05:58 - Yeah, absolutely.
06:00 Now this one is interesting.
06:01 This is from the Jan Artus Bertrand's organization,
06:04 which is for like protecting the ocean.
06:06 - Right.
06:07 - Did you pick this up for a particular reason
06:10 to do with that operation,
06:13 or is it just something that came to you by chance?
06:14 - This is where this interview just goes down the pan,
06:17 because it's blue.
06:18 - It's a good reason as any.
06:20 - But it's also got, you know,
06:22 there's the orange ones that were around,
06:24 which I've never, I couldn't wear an orange one,
06:27 but this has the blue and it's got the orange picked out
06:29 on the side, and it's just,
06:30 I just think it's just a beautiful watch.
06:33 Just like, you know, and again,
06:34 I wear this one all the time as well.
06:35 You can tell it's covered in crap.
06:37 I did actually try to clean some of these,
06:39 and then I just thought, I'll just sort it.
06:40 I was there with my little.
06:42 - Toothbrush.
06:43 - Toothbrush, and cleaning it,
06:43 I'm like, oh God, that's what they did,
06:45 that's what, you know.
06:46 I'm gonna bring in this one now,
06:47 which actually we borrowed for the day,
06:49 which is your most recent Seamaster 300.
06:53 - Your watch.
06:54 - How strong is it?
06:55 - Fairly strong.
06:57 - This is titanium.
06:58 It's a really lovely watch,
06:59 because it's very retro,
07:00 and it's very modern at the same time.
07:02 I like the fact that they put the broad arrow
07:04 on the dial as well,
07:06 which has been a mark of ownership by the crown
07:10 or by the government.
07:11 Basically means this is not your watch.
07:13 You're going to give it back
07:13 when you finish your service or whatever it is.
07:16 Is this something that's a sort of a watch
07:18 that's out there that you have in the back of your mind
07:21 that you're still looking for,
07:22 or if it comes along,
07:23 you'll nab it, something in your head?
07:25 - I don't feel very comfortable wearing
07:27 the really expensive watches.
07:30 I've got a couple of really nice ones,
07:31 so for very special occasions, I wear them.
07:33 But on a day to day,
07:34 I want to wear a watch that feels like a,
07:36 you know, I feel comfortable having it on my wrist.
07:39 - Now, if under threat of being evaporated,
07:43 you had to keep one of these watches,
07:45 which one would you keep?
07:46 - I think, I mean, it's a toss up between those two
07:49 because that's, I bought that,
07:50 but I think it has to be the Casino Royale one.
07:52 It's like, it's kind of that,
07:54 that has a incredibly significant,
07:56 I mean, it's a moment my life changed basically.
07:58 So I think I'd have to sort of say that was the one.
08:01 - Do you think you might be able to find a replacement
08:03 for the one that flew off your wrist at the fairground?
08:05 - I did, I found one.
08:06 - You did? - Yeah, I did.
08:07 - And it's as close as you can get to it.
08:07 - I think it was, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:09 - Marvellous. - Yeah.
08:10 - Well, Dalian, thank you very much for your time.
08:12 It's been very fascinating in there.
08:13 - Oh, thank you very much for having me.
08:14 - Very interesting collection.
08:15 Thank you so much. - Thank you very much, yeah.
08:17 Thank you.
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