Merry Christmas!
Now— while there appears to be consensus that *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the James Bond story most tied to this blessed season, an irreconcilable divide must be acknowledged when it comes to the question of book [1] versus movie [2].
Irreconcilable when it comes to 007 watches, that is: The Christmastime wristwatch for the novel was an Explorer, on the big screen a pre-Daytona Chronograph.
Both from watchmaker Rolex.
Splitting … continued
Three months ago today I suffered an oblique mid-shaft humeral fracture of my right arm. A Cartier Carrée James Bond watch was on my left wrist; it’s still there as I make this Post.
January 13, 2025, was actually the first day I put it on.
By way of perspective, that was on the heals of having worn my Rolex Day-Date for little over a week. Obvious case size and weight difference. But, curiously, the … continued
An Omega Seamaster 300m was on my wrist when I started work on James Bond Watches Version 5, so I thought it appropriate to be wearing that same wristwatch for the website re-launch this past New Year’s Eve.
Prior to putting it into its then-latest active duty again on December 18, 2023, it had been running between 2.94 and 3.70 seconds fast. A gain of 2.0 seconds per day is my sweat spot. … 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
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