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 … continued