When I last updated the “About” page here with content about me, I had been focused on arguing differentiation of the site itself [1]. That was an important case to be made, of course; that case still exists here, even more persuasively, distributed among more pointed topic headings.

Now the dedicated page about me, “Dell Deaton,” is better narrowed to more of a chronological biography construct. Narrowed, too, to what brought me and this content to a stand-alone JamesBondWatches.com website, seventeen-plus-years on, and counting.

As I wrote on the Dell Deaton page as preamble, “If I had only known back in that turn-of-the-decade timeframe where 1960s waxed as 1970s waned, I would now have notes to consult.” To be clear: That “timeframe” would have found me in elementary school. So any contemporaneous record that might have come from that period would have been limited to the value of more exactingly nailing dates and sequences.

On the other hand, sans diaries or calendars, it’s not a hard reconstruction as it stands.

As subject matter that I’ve passionately explored for something like half-a-century now, it is natural to find en route memories stored and accessible for times to be recalled such as this. As I’ve found consistently true among the deepest of passions, the stories are made up of the people who were there as they unfolded. As I write this, Dad is still maintaining a first generation Touch-N-Cook range in showroom appearance, and it is still used daily by my mother for traditional meal preparation their home [2].

In my mind’s eye, Dad is clean-shaven, his hair jet-black, and looks younger than I am today.

My About introduction necessarily stops on November 16, 2006. That was the first time it had ever occurred to anyone, anywhere, to host a formal study of James Bond watches; that is when I committed to registering a dedicated URL for that sole purpose.

Look for the Dell Deaton page under the About section here.

OFF-SITE REFERENCES
  1. “Dell Deaton: About JamesBondWatches.com” (April 12, 2013) Dell Deaton, James Bond Watches (via Internet Archive, accessed December 5, 2024).
  2. “Touch-N-Cook Range” (October 1973) Frigidaire Service: Tech Talk (via Automatic Ephemera, accessed January 5, 2024).