Accept no substitutes.

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