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Feras · 9 July 2012, 05:20 PM

I enjoyed reading this so i wanted to share it with you guys

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch/fun.html

P.S. sorry if this is a repeated thread or an old news to some of you

bondtoys · 9 July 2012, 05:24 PM

That is very old news.

Bond wore Pulsar in 1973 and Seiko from 1977

capote · 9 July 2012, 05:43 PM

Yeah, that was a Bond period inbetween Rolex and Omega.

Feras · 9 July 2012, 05:58 PM

There should be a thread with the whole bond watch collection including the name of movie and year of the movie with the watch refrence.

capote · 9 July 2012, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feras

There should be a thread with the whole bond watch collection including the name of movie and year of the movie with the watch refrence.

For the amount of Bond threads at TRF he should have his own sub-forum

Tudor4me · 9 July 2012, 06:13 PM

I believe it was the Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond era. I believe Connery was last true Rolex Bond and Pierce Brosnan was the first Omega Bond.

Although Timothy Dalton wore a Tag Heuer in The Living Daylights and then tried to usher the Rolex era back to Bond in Licensed to kill, the Tag is rarely mentioned as a Bond watch like Rolex and Omega (Omeega as Daniel Craig would say).

Feras · 9 July 2012, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capote

For the amount of Bond threads at TRF he should have his own sub-forum

x2

Tudor4me · 9 July 2012, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feras

There should be a thread with the whole bond watch collection including the name of movie and year of the movie with the watch refrence.

Here you go: Bond movie watches

Dr. No Rolex

From Russia with Love Rolex

Goldfinger Rolex

Thunderball Rolex

You Only Live Twice

Casino Royale Rolex

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Rolex

Diamonds are Forever

Live and Let Die Rolex

Man With the Golden Gun Rolex

The Spy Who Loved Me Seiko

Moonraker Seiko

For Your Eyes Only Seiko

Octopussy Seiko

Never Say Never Again

A View to a Kill Seiko

The Living Daylights TAG Heuer

License to Kill Rolex

Goldeneye Omega

Tomorrow Never Dies Omega

The World is not Enough Omega

Die Another Day Omega

Casino Royale Omega,

Quantum of Solace Omega

Feras · 9 July 2012, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tudor4me

Here you go: Bond movie watches

Dr. No Rolex

From Russia with Love Rolex

Goldfinger Rolex

Thunderball Rolex

You Only Live Twice

Casino Royale Rolex

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Rolex

Diamonds are Forever

Live and Let Die Rolex

Man With the Golden Gun Rolex

The Spy Who Loved Me Seiko

Moonraker Seiko

For Your Eyes Only Seiko

Octopussy Seiko

Never Say Never Again

A View to a Kill Seiko

The Living Daylights TAG Heuer

License to Kill Rolex

Goldeneye Omega

Tomorrow Never Dies Omega

The World is not Enough Omega

Die Another Day Omega

Casino Royale Omega,

Quantum of Solace Omega

Wow that was quick, if only i wished for 1M$

Thank you Tudor and looking forward to read more of your posts

kayin · 9 July 2012, 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tudor4me

Here you go: Bond movie watches

Dr. No Rolex

From Russia with Love Rolex

Goldfinger Rolex

Thunderball Rolex

You Only Live Twice

Casino Royale Rolex

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Rolex

Diamonds are Forever

Live and Let Die Rolex

Man With the Golden Gun Rolex

The Spy Who Loved Me Seiko

Moonraker Seiko

For Your Eyes Only Seiko

Octopussy Seiko

Never Say Never Again

A View to a Kill Seiko

The Living Daylights TAG Heuer

License to Kill Rolex

Goldeneye Omega

Tomorrow Never Dies Omega

The World is not Enough Omega

Die Another Day Omega

Casino Royale Omega,

Quantum of Solace Omega

In Thunderball Bond also wore a Breitling with a built in Geiger counter which was given to him by Q

Tudor4me · 9 July 2012, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kayin

In Thunderball Bond also wore a Breitling with a built in Geiger counter which was given to him by Q

Yes you are right. It was butt ugly and looked like a heavy block of steel. Not good for Breitling. Hardly any reference to that at all.

Kraftwerck · 9 July 2012, 07:59 PM

Those are well known facts (that Bond wore Seikos, but never a Pulsar - a Seiko sub brand btw - in between Rolexs and Omegas).

Interesting enough, Ian Fleming (Bond's creator) wore a Rolex Explorer I 1016 himself (case # 596851) himself. This one,

He was also known to be what we called a WIS today, owning many-many watches as many Fleming's photographs shows. But he owned only one Rolex in his whole life (the Explorer I). He moved and lived to Jamaica, where he had a beautifull house and wrote his very successfull books.

A curious fact is that Fleming himself were a Commander of the Naval Inteligence of the Royal Navy. He even conceived a (never executed, code name "Operation Ruthless") plan to capture a Nazy Enigma machine.

In his books about his most famous caracter, since the first book - "Cassino Royale" - he wrote that Bond would only wear and drink the best of the best, the finer things of life(Taittinger champagne, the finer tailored suits, tailored shirts, fast and expensive cars, shirtcuffs and London specially handmade shoes, including the best watch available, a Rolex, as Fleming rightly understood). Seiko were a cheap Japanese brand by that time (and I must say, I'm a big fan and collector of vintage and new Seiko auto models, I love the brand and know quite a bit about Seiko history. I own a couple of hundreds of great to superb pieces of this fantastic brand). I guess Fleming would never put a Seiko watch on Bond's wrist at that time.

Some Bond caracters (mainly R. Moore) wore Seikos because of an aggressive-and successfull- marketing campaigne, paid and supplied by Seiko Corp). BTW, Bond never wore any Pulsar (a Seiko sub brand) in any movie. I'm not aware of Bond using any Breitling (but could be, it's just I have never heard or read about any Breitling ia a Bond movie).

So, ROLEX is the brand Bond's was originally intended to use. Not even Omegas.

capote · 9 July 2012, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kraftwerck

Those are well known facts (that Bond wore Seikos, but never a Pulsar - a Seiko sub brand btw - in between Rolexs and Omegas).

Looks like a Pulsar to me

And here is the Breitling as kayin stated above. From Thunderball

Ugly as sin

bondtoys · 9 July 2012, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kraftwerck

In his books about his most famous caracter, since the first book - "Cassino Royale" -

The book is CASINO Royale btw.

waspy1 · 9 July 2012, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bondtoys

The book is CASINO Royale btw.

Crikey, we need to watch our spelling now?

Feras · 9 July 2012, 09:54 PM

bondtoys · 9 July 2012, 10:38 PM

I just wanted to make sure, that all these flaws don't become "well known facts" ;)

Kraftwerck · 9 July 2012, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bondtoys

I just wanted to make sure, that all these flaws don't become "well known facts" ;)

Thank you

azguy · 9 July 2012, 11:51 PM

I'm not surprised at Mr. Moore's watches, most of the 70's were ugly...

capote · 10 July 2012, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azguy

I'm not surprised at Mr. Moore's watches, most of the 70's were ugly...

Except the Rolex line-up of the 70's

9 July 2012, 05:20 PM	#1
Feras Banned Join Date: Aug 2011 Real Name: Feras Location: Bahrain Watch: Rolex,Tag Posts: 1,923	Bond betrayed Rolex and Omega I enjoyed reading this so i wanted to share it with you guys http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch/fun.html P.S. sorry if this is a repeated thread or an old news to some of you

9 July 2012, 05:24 PM	#2
bondtoys "TRF" Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: World Watch: 16750 Posts: 2,733	That is very old news. Bond wore Pulsar in 1973 and Seiko from 1977

9 July 2012, 05:43 PM	#3
capote "TRF" Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Real Name: Daniel Location: Sweden Watch: 16570 Posts: 7,315	Yeah, that was a Bond period inbetween Rolex and Omega.

9 July 2012, 05:58 PM	#4
Feras Banned Join Date: Aug 2011 Real Name: Feras Location: Bahrain Watch: Rolex,Tag Posts: 1,923	There should be a thread with the whole bond watch collection including the name of movie and year of the movie with the watch refrence.

9 July 2012, 06:13 PM	#6
Tudor4me "TRF" Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: East Coast Posts: 10	I believe it was the Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond era. I believe Connery was last true Rolex Bond and Pierce Brosnan was the first Omega Bond. Although Timothy Dalton wore a Tag Heuer in The Living Daylights and then tried to usher the Rolex era back to Bond in Licensed to kill, the Tag is rarely mentioned as a Bond watch like Rolex and Omega (Omeega as Daniel Craig would say).

9 July 2012, 07:59 PM	#12
Kraftwerck Banned Join Date: Aug 2011 Real Name: Hernan Location: Spain Watch: A lot... Posts: 98	Those are well known facts (that Bond wore Seikos, *but never a Pulsar* - a Seiko sub brand btw - in between Rolexs and Omegas). Interesting enough, Ian Fleming (Bond's creator) wore a Rolex Explorer I 1016 himself (case # 596851) himself. This one, He was also known to be what we called a WIS today, owning many-many watches as many Fleming's photographs shows. But he owned only one Rolex in his whole life (the Explorer I). He moved and lived to Jamaica, where he had a beautifull house and wrote his very successfull books. A curious fact is that Fleming himself were a Commander of the Naval Inteligence of the Royal Navy. He even conceived a (never executed, code name "Operation Ruthless") plan to capture a Nazy Enigma machine. In his books about his most famous caracter, since the first book - "Cassino Royale" - he wrote that Bond would only wear and drink the best of the best, the finer things of life(Taittinger champagne, the finer tailored suits, tailored shirts, fast and expensive cars, shirtcuffs and London specially handmade shoes, including the best watch available, a Rolex, as Fleming rightly understood). Seiko were a cheap Japanese brand by that time (and I must say, I'm a big fan and collector of vintage and new Seiko auto models, I love the brand and know quite a bit about Seiko history. I own a couple of hundreds of great to superb pieces of this fantastic brand). I guess Fleming would never put a Seiko watch on Bond's wrist at that time. Some Bond caracters (mainly R. Moore) wore Seikos because of an aggressive-and successfull- marketing campaigne, paid and supplied by Seiko Corp). BTW, Bond never wore any Pulsar (a Seiko sub brand) in any movie. I'm not aware of Bond using any Breitling (but could be, it's just I have never heard or read about any Breitling ia a Bond movie). So, ROLEX is the brand Bond's was originally intended to use. Not even Omegas.

9 July 2012, 09:54 PM	#16
Feras Banned Join Date: Aug 2011 Real Name: Feras Location: Bahrain Watch: Rolex,Tag Posts: 1,923

9 July 2012, 10:38 PM	#17
bondtoys "TRF" Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: World Watch: 16750 Posts: 2,733	I just wanted to make sure, that all these flaws don't become "well known facts" ;)

9 July 2012, 11:51 PM	#19
azguy Banned Join Date: Sep 2011 Real Name: ------- Location: ------- Watch: --------- Posts: 12,609	I'm not surprised at Mr. Moore's watches, most of the 70's were ugly...

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