N1 | Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light — Licence to Clone
N1 factory takes on the first chronograph in the Bond Seamaster Diver line, the 007 First Light, with a claimed 9900-based movement and bronze-gold subdial details. The genuine watch came out of a video game. In a sense, so did this one.
James Bond has worn plenty of dive watches, and until this year none of the Seamaster Diver 300M ones had a chronograph. It took a video game to change that, and it has taken N1 factory only a few months to follow.
The release
The genuine Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light, reference 210.32.44.51.01.002, was announced on May 21, 2026, a few days before the video game 007 First Light came out. It is a 44 mm steel case, about 17.2 mm thick, with a polished black ceramic bezel and pushers, a black ceramic dial with laser-engraved waves, and a date at 6 o’clock. The subdial at 3 o’clock and the central chronograph seconds hand are finished in bronze-gold-tone PVD. Inside is the calibre 9900, a column-wheel automatic chronograph with a 60-hour power reserve and Master Chronometer certification. The sapphire caseback carries a First Light logo, and the watch ships on a black, grey and beige NATO strap. It is not a limited edition, and it is listed at around $9,400.
What N1 claims
The flyer calls it a special edition and says it restores every function 1:1. It claims a 9900-based movement, a “007 First Light” mark on the caseback and bronze-gold details on the chronograph subdial. A genuine 9900 has a co-axial escapement and survives 15,000 gauss, which are things that are easy to print on a flyer and hard to put in a clone, so we would read “9900” as a description of the layout rather than the engineering. The flyer shows two versions, one on a steel bracelet and one on a black rubber strap. Neither is the NATO strap the genuine watch comes on, so this is the factory improvising around the source.
The take
On the flyer, the layout looks right, with the wave dial, the bronze-gold subdial and the red model name all in place. A flyer is a flyer, though, and there are no real photographs yet, so the flyer is on the cover for now. A watch from a video game, cloned from a press image. The genuine one is about to find out how many players it has. The factory already knows.
Release report based on the factory flyer only. We have not handled this example. The movement, the functions and the finishing are the factory’s claims and have not been independently verified.
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