Accept no substitutes.
personal experience
Last week, I was in Columbia, Pennsylvania to remove all wristwatches, historical artifacts, and related materials from the “James Bond Originals” kiosk and James Bond Wore the Quartz Revolution™ gallery [1] that I had curated at the National Watch & Clock Museum [2].
This should be a good thing.
As touched upon during a recent local Fox43 WPMT news segment [3], the “Museum of Time” is preparing to undertake a major reimagining … 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 owned a 1016 Explorer, I felt like I’d appear to … continued
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 ….
The “Casino Royale” differed from its … continued