Thirty years of GoldenEye and Omega as 007 watchmaker

In 1990, critics flatly declared that James Bond, after a long life as a popular cultural icon, was finally dead [1]. As today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the 1995 GoldenEye world premier [2], then, there s a rather satisfying air of vindication in the precient words with which Garth Pearce opened his making-of book: James Bond has been impossible to kill [3]. From a James Bond watch…