Accept no substitutes.
Watchmaker or brand
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
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