James Bond Watches Blog

Swatch James Bond watches leather briefcase, 2002 Fall/Winter collection

This week, we’re taking a look at a very nice range of licensed James Bond watches currently available on eBay.

As before, an opening disclaimer:

These references are presented as-is, where-is.

I am not authenticating anything that’s being offered, not vouching for sellers, and not suggesting current or ultimate sales prices reflect future value.

Fossil Deluxe Limited Edition 007 watch

Although all packaging and pieces are included with this auction, several aspects of it are in a bit rougher shape than we’d like to see for a Fossil-Bond collectible. See item number 230649488987 on eBay.

Gilbert James Bond Spy Watch

Item number 120824485534 is the wristwatch version offered by Gilbert that was without embossed logo.

MGM “shutter” watch

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Having just completed our survey here of James Bond watches and the Quartz Revolution, the time seems right (no pun intended) for a video released just a few months ago which does a marvelous job of explaining just how they work.

More than just technically accurate, the presentation here is both engaging and well produced.

“The Engineer Guy” here is Bill Hammack, with the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, at Urbana.

A separate entry to this discussion (previously references on the James Bond Watch Docket for Mobile readers), an episode of Deconstructed on The Science Channel does an equally fine job of brining the novice up to speed — without sacrifice to experts’ interests.

That video can be seen online, or downloaded from iTunes under Deconstructed, Volume 1.

Life magazine presents "James Bond watches and the Quartz Revolution" Timeline, sponsored by Rolex (Omega Seamaster courtesy Lewis Jewelers, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

This last installment from the Life magazine timeline, “James Bond watches and the Quartz Revolution,” gives us two new watchmakers — and two new actors in the role.

On June 29, 1987, Timothy Dalton made his first appearance as James Bond in the Eon Productions 007 film, The Living Daylights. For the sixth consecutive installment in a row, the James Bond watch here was a quartz.

Actually, both of them were quartz models.

For additional context, images from the Life magazine archives are indexed into this timeline, featuring Octopussy Bond-girl as she looked post-Bond in 1988, and The Spy Who Loved Me Bond-girl Barbara Bach, post-Bond, the following year.

The next and final quartz James Bond watch, then, was the Omega 2541.80 Seamaster that introduced Pierce Brosnan as Our Man in GoldenEye (1995).

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