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“On My Wrist”

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 owned a 1016 Explorer, I felt like I’d appear to … continued

re “Under Construction” Status

Rather than simply disappearing large sections (if not the entirety) of this site in order to work through larger organization and taxonomy issues, I’ve elected to add an “Under Construction” page. That was done earlier this week.

First and foremost, I want to avoid having anyone get the wrong impression from visiting a work-in-progress. Due to the established history and utilization of James Bond Watches content, it has already been captured en route to Version continued

Update to “About” Page with Updated Sub-Page About “Me”

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; that case still exists here, even more persuasively, distributed among more pointed topic headings.

Now the dedicated page about me, “Dell Deaton,” is better narrowed to more of a chronological biography construct. Narrowed, too, to what brought me and this … continued

En route to launch of JamesBondWatches.com 5.0

With JamesBondWatches.com currently rolling out under a brand new architecture, I was prompted to look back at previous iterations for a count.

  • Version 1.0 (December 9, 2005), posted under my personal domain and referenced the first confirmation that I had seen about Omega returning to provide James Bond watches for Casino Royale [1].
  • Version 2.0 (November 16, 2006), registered jamesbondwatches.com domain name and propagated first dedicated home page [2].
  • Version 3.0 (circa April 3,
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