Bottom line: Here’s where you’ll find specific, bulletproof identification for each and every known James Bond watch — backed up with the basis of all information provided.

More about our definitive lists of James Bond watches

In the time that’s past since JamesBondWatches.com was first to create any true definitive list of James Bond watches, a number of folks have started making their own claims to such authority. Of course, it takes more than simply labeling one’s information as “definitive” to make it so.

Splashy pictures, rambling prose, and even certain types of expertise in tangential areas of collecting don’t cut it either.

When JamesBondWatches.com says it has the definitive list of Eon Productions James Bond film watches or that we can provide you with the brand, model, and number of the original literary 007 wristwatch of Ian Fleming, we back it up with documentation. These are our exclusive sources, tied specifically to our work.

  • Personal interviews with Fleming family members back our details in covering the Rolex 1016 Explorer worn by Ian Fleming as he wrote On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1962.
  • Paperwork from Seiko Watch Corporation verifies our identification of the watch types provided out of the United Kingdom to Eon Productions for the James Bond character, from The Spy Who Loved Me through A View to a Kill.
  • JamesBondWatches.com lists are not plagued by obvious errors, such as assumptions about the watches worn by Timothy Dalton in his two films (where list-mongers seem to have confused black PVD-coated pieces with clean stainless cases.
  • By relying on multiple sources of information, we aren’t subject to perpetuating errors that undermine identifications based on erroneous assumptions about dates of manufacture (eg, regarding the Rolex Submariner references of the mid-1980s and the Explorer 1016 with Radium dial).
  • None of our IDs are based on what someone claims to have seen in a second-generation image of a painting posted on the Internet.
  • We don’t pad our lists with filler — mixing claimed specifics about Omega models with generic references to other watch models (as if all Seikos featured in Bond films were essentially the same piece).
  • Our work is routinely vetted by top industry print magazines, passing both editorial scrutiny prior to publication and worldwide readership topping 100,000 over the years.

This is our basis for proudly and exclusively delivering the following.