As of 9:34 pm GMT this evening, the fifth iteration of James Bond Watches is now live.
For those of you who are here for launch, note that “5.000” shows as the extended version number. (I don’t anticipate that it will remain so for long.)
“But how do you know that?”
One of my top priorities for this website update was to provide the highest practical degree of accountability in James Bond watch identifications. Even in cases where doesn’t seem to be any question about provenance, reference number, and the finest subtleties of dial finishings, I would still like to know what the narrowly-focused brand experts, 007 collectors, critical examiners, “people who were there at the time” — and sometimes all of the above — have had to say on these matters.
Thus, version 5 maintains the James Bond Watches position of ultimate authority by continuing to raise the bar on the identification, vetting, and presentation of a continually expanding range of authorities. I’ve personally led with a a good number of new discoveries in this space, on my own and in collaborations. But no one can honestly claim to found everything.
In service to this, two approaches to laying out citations for off-site sources are used here.
- Bibliography.
Arrangement of resources by name of source itself provides both a means of assessing at-a-glance how often the same authority appears, even through differing channels. Dedicated pages for individual watchmakers herein follow this structure. - References.
These are the more traditional “footnotes” with numbers corresponding to exact representations, in context, as it appears in the text above. Pages for each specific model of wristwatch identified per movie herein follow this structure.
Closing with “the numbers,” this site now shows twenty-seven of the first hundred-plus pages currently developed. Progress over the last week since soft-launch has concentrated on beginning to release and link to dedicated watchmaker pages.
The site now before you is in its final appearance — except for a minor adjustment to come on the banner for 2025.
Happy New Year!
— Dell Deaton
off-site
Bibliography
- Greenwich Mean Time .com (accessed December 31, 2024).