James Bond Watches Blog

We’ve all seen those videos where clouds are made to race across the sky on a windless day or an ice cube seems to melt to water in mere seconds.

Time-lapse videos, they’re called. Or, to be more precise: A series of individual still-images, combined in sequence and processed to produce a time-lapse video.

Not much out there in terms of application to wristwatches, however. And none (of which I’m aware) featuring a James Bond watch.

Until now. continue reading…

As I said on Facebook just after posting this to YouTube, I’ve been looking for a reason to make a video featuring my Carrera 1:32-scale Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger slot-car.

And that time has come.

The James Bond watch connection here, of course, can be seen by way of the Omega 2531.80 Seamaster. continue reading…

Last year around this time, I shared a rather helpful video that showed you the fundamentals of how a quartz wristwatch tells time.

This time, it’s the parts, names, and interfaces among them that go into making sure your mechanical James Bond watch keeps accurate track of passing hours, minutes, and seconds.

No— we’re not talking “James Bond” affiliated brand this time. We’re talking basics, fundamentals here. A show called “How It’s Made” on Science TV featured a segment on “luxury watches” during its seventh season (episode 8).

I downloaded it for myself from iTunes. But it also seems to have been made available via YouTube, as you see here.

Courtesy Discovery Channel