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James Bond Watches

    
         
    Dedicated focus on all things related to the wristwatches of James Bond, Agent 007, created by Ian Fleming and brought to life in film by Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions.    
   
   
         
    “Quantum of Solace" watch, as chosen by Ian Fleming    
         
   

 

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    First edition Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond (Turner Publishing, 1995)
  Ian Fleming makes no mention of the watch worn by James Bond in Quantum of Solace. No brand, no descriptive detail; as a matter of fact, 007 never even gives it a glance to tell the time here.

But Ian Fleming did associate a very real wristwatch with this story, according to one of his biographies — Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond, by Andrew Lycett.

Blanche Blackwell, Mr. Fleming's Jamaican companion, was the source of the Quantum of Solace story, which was "about a real-life police inspector in Jamaica," told at Goldeneye.

"By way of thanks," Mr. Lycett writes, "Ian promised her a 'fat present,' a surprising way to describe a slim, attractive Cartier wristwatch." The timing of this reference appears to have been sometime in 1957 or 1958.

Curiously, this is the only reference to Ian Fleming and a wristwatch by brand name of any kind in the 450+ pages of the Andrew Lycett biography.

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Posted by Dell Deaton, April 8, 2008 at 8:57 AM

    
   
   
   

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