Accept no substitutes.
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; that case still exists here, even more persuasively, distributed among more pointed topic headings.
Now the dedicated page about me, “Dell Deaton,” is better narrowed to more of a chronological biography construct. Narrowed, too, to what brought me and this … continued
In 2009, I wrote the following in closing my WatchTime article on having discovered the literary James Bond Rolex [1]:
… continuedYet 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
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.