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Premiums for Omega Watches with Special “James Bond” Affiliations

While updating the “Casino Royale” Limited page earlier today, I noted that that watch, new from an Authorized Dealer, was priced in 2006 at $3,650 (MSRP).

In case you forgot to ask— the standard (read, ‘not Limited Series’) Omega Planet Ocean, in either size, runs $3,300 (MSRP) on the rubber strap …. So we’re talking about a $350 premium for the James Bond 007 Casino Royale watch affiliation ….

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James Bond Watches: Reissues

In 2009, I wrote the following in closing my WatchTime article on having discovered the literary James Bond Rolex [1]:

Yet we still learn something: James Bond may continue wearing a watch after it becomes ‘old,’ as his friend Felix Leiter once observed; but when it’s time for replacement, he chooses new.

This specific wristwatch chosen for Bond not only remains in current production as the model 114270, but its overall appearance remains true to

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