Thread: What types of watches do you like?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

You have to read about the history of Rolex and it's all there. It's about how they started out, how they advertised, their technical innovations, business practices and the quartz revolution in the 70s.

While other outfits were sleeping they were moving.

And James Bond always wore a Rolex IIRC....

Originally Posted by Phrank

And James Bond always wore a Rolex IIRC....

Actually no. He has worn an Omega and a Seiko.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Actually no. He has worn an Omega and a Seiko.

You're kidding right?

James Bond from old school always wore Rolex, just recently he went Omega IIRC...

Bond used a Rolex in several movies: Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights.

No. He also wore a Gruen and a Heuer and actually several Seikos and I think Roger Moore wore a Pulsar too.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

No. He also wore a Gruen and a Heuer and actually several Seikos and I think Roger Moore wore a Pulsar too.

If I recall, Ian Fleming himself always wore a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer, but for the character of Bond, it had to be a Rolex, and hence, you see him with the Submariner for so many years, before product placement in films really took off.

So many of the the watches Q made always had some interesting aspects, never forget the one with the garrotte.

But Bond has always been synonymous with Rolex, as in at least 9 films he wore them in.....

But yeah, he really wore a variety of watches....sheesh, makes me cringe to see these old digitals:

http://www.watchtime.com/featured/watches-james-bond/

James Bond wore a Rolex Submariner in Live and Let Die, Roger Moore's first Bond movie.

With a circular saw as a bezel and a high intensity magnet.

See you next month.....

Originally Posted by Phrank

And James Bond always wore a Rolex IIRC....

You are 100% correct sir.

In Ian Fleming's books Bond wore a Rolex Oyster, in the movies a lot of different brands as mentioned above.

I was lucky enough to get to try the Rolex DateJust YG today.
A beautiful watch but at 36mm I felt it was a little small om my wrist.

Here is one of my watches - my only "dive watch" that I use when scuba diving.

This one and a Timex I use when backpacking are my only battery watches - the other 2 are manual or automatic.

Originally Posted by hrfdez

...and a high intensity magnet.

How that was supposed to work on an mechanical watch, I haven't got a clue !