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On February 3, 2011, I registered JamesBondWatchPhotos.com™ as its own URL [1].
The original concept was to consolidate a mix of my own photographs and public domain distributions under a single reference umbrella that users could access from their desktops and mobile devices. Content was hosted through the same provider as this primary website, as well as its companion blog [2,3]. Part-and-parcel of that was limitation on maximum image size — but that wasn’t a … continued
Over the last few days, I’ve been updating in tandem each of the worn “Brands” pages on James Bond Watches. For most of them, this meant doing a deep dive on histories; wherever practical, I looked to the watchmakers themselves for foundations.
Little if any of this touched upon “James Bond” per se. And yet, at the same time, I would not have been looking at any of that content had there not been … 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