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.