Accept no substitutes.
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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
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