https://www.rolexmagazine.com/2008/11/list-of-all-watches-wo...
https://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/watch-review/original...
Later on, James Bond moved from Rolex to Omega. I'm not sure how Fleming would have felt.
https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a68536/james-bond-watch-g....
Although I will say that the Bond Seamaster 300 is a beauty of a watch. It’s just a shame it has 007 branding all over it.
But OMG seriously? I thought that was about as elegant a way to do a luxury product placement. It even served the scene. Vesper (subtext): "You're not complex. You are like this..." Bond (subtext): "You're not far wrong! But I'm not supposed to be."
Far more ridiculous are the poker scenes in Casino Royale.
Speaking as someone who likes wristwatches, what's even more ridiculous is the idea of a $12K tool watch. Only a soft in the head billionaire would even go swimming with such an expensive watch, let alone diving.
It only seems weird in retrospect now that it has become common.
> ‘One of the reasons why I chose the pseudonym of James Bond for my hero rather than, say, Peregrine Maltravers was that I wished him to be unobtrusive. Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department.
> ‘But to create an illusion of depth I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props and, while I kept his wardrobe as discreet as his personality, I did equip him with a distinctive gun and, though they are a security hazard, with distinctive cigarettes. This latter touch of display unfortunately went to my head. I proceeded to invent a cocktail for Bond (which I sampled several months later and found unpalatable), and a rather precious though basically simple meal ordered by Bond proved so popular with my readers, still suffering from war-time restrictions, that expensive, though I think not ostentatious, meals have been eaten in subsequent books.
This article goes into a lot of detail: https://midcenturybond.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/an-appraisal...
also is it scrambled eggs or is it having extra eggs
Is the only wristwatch for a drummer
It tells true and it ain't no bummer
Clive James