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A sum total of twenty-one words were devoted to the James Bond wristwatch in the 1953 novel, Casino Royale.
It was ten minutes past one by Bond’s watch when, at the high table, the whole pattern of play suddenly altered.
When I last discussed it on my James Bond Watches Blog some fifteen years ago, I put 399 to the subject [1]. Significantly, I thought, was a look to the 1959 Goldfinger by way … 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