He confesses to only recently cleaning off the mud off it from filming. Take the Seamaster 300 watch he wore in his first bone-crunching opening sequence as Bond in Casino Royale. Like many collectors, Craig’s methodology is driven less by value and much more by meaning. Here, in a special edition of Dialed In, Daniel and I met to go through his Omega collection and explain why watches matter so much to him. Most recently he logged two stints as Benoit Blanc, the southern drawling sleuth in the Knives Out franchise.ĭrawing inspiration from that work as well as his own life, Craig has also amassed a fascinating collection of watches. But he has also juggled a broad-ranging acting career between stage and screen, with several blockbusters a world apart from Bond.
Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's regular column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.ĭaniel Craig may well be most familiar to you and I for his run in the role of Bond, James Bond.
