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 … continued
Beginning with the December 25 James Bond Watches Blog™ post this past Wednesday, a banner image will appear above each headline and content. These will be locked in place to serve as a sort of time capsule against future updates to the website, proper banner going forward.
The current banner is comprised of nineteen images, with priority placed on having each of the confirmed James Bond movie watchmakers in some way represented.
Following … continued
The JamesBondWatches.com™ home page has changed today to reflect “soft-launch” status for Version 5 (referenced as “v5.00” for this phase).
Banner, ground, and layout are now in final configuration. Header, footer, Welcome! and main (side-slider) menus are all set and functional as well — along with Movie Wristwatches and Why—? section landing pages.
James Bond Watches Blog™ is not set out as a stand-alone section, but, rather, ties to pages for which any … continued
One of the most common questions that I was asked about the “Bond Watches, James Bond Watches” opening at the National Watch & Clock Museum in 2010 was about the wristwatch I had chosen to wear for the occasion that night [1].
It was a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Submariner reference worn by Timothy Dalton as James Bond in Licence to Kill.
Although I then-owned a 1016 Explorer, I felt like I’d appear to … continued
When I last updated the “About” page here with content about me, I had been focused on arguing differentiation of the site itself [1]. That was an important case to be made, of course; and that case still exists here, even more persuasively, now distributed among myriad pointed topic headings.
So now the dedicated page about me, “Dell Deaton,” is better narrowed to more of a chronological biography construct. Narrowed, … continued
In 2018, United Kingdom auction house Fellows listed a rather interesting watch with James Bond movie provenance [1-2].
Auctions of screen-worn James Bond watches are hardly uncommon, of course [3]. In the case of this Rolex 5513 Submariner associated with Licence to Kill, however, it made no claim to have been worn by actor Timothy Dalton as Agent 007. Rather, it was on the wrist of stunt double Rodney Pincott — and included documentation … continued
With JamesBondWatches.com currently rolling out under a brand new architecture, I was prompted to look back at previous iterations for a count.