The real James Bonds watch

Higgins

But isn't bullet proof evidence by an expert professional researcher out there, that Bond wore an Explorer? :v

Higgins

Just image, what a bomb the newly launched Submariner must have been back then - particularly for loaded people who enjoyed watersports and an adventurous lifestyle?

It's not hard to imagine, which watch the Rolex connaisseur Fleming would have chosen for Bond

Asp9mm

Higgins wrote:

But isn't bullet proof evidence by an expert professional researcher out there, that Bond wore an Explorer? :v

And you are further proof that any idiot can write anything on the internet, and claim it's true )

minigeff

Asp9mm wrote:

Higgins wrote:

But isn't bullet proof evidence by an expert professional researcher out there, that Bond wore an Explorer? :v

And you are further proof that any idiot can write anything on the internet, and claim it's true )

I wonder if he wears a fez when at the typewriter like the rest of his companions? :x

Matt S

minigeff wrote:

Asp9mm wrote:

Higgins wrote:

But isn't bullet proof evidence by an expert professional researcher out there, that Bond wore an Explorer? :v

And you are further proof that any idiot can write anything on the internet, and claim it's true )

I wonder if he wears a fez when at the typewriter like the rest of his companions? :x

No, I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.
Don't make me do it without the fez on.

Donald Grant

Here is a partial time line of the Fleming era James Bond Rolex:

April 1953
CR Published (1st Bond Book)
James Bond is Born


April 1954
LALD Published (2nd Bond Book)
James Bond Rolex Oyster Perpetual
Ian Fleming Did Not Own Rolex 1016 Explorer

















January 1962
Dr. No Begins Filming Jamaica
James Bond Rolex Submariner
Ian Fleming on Set Apparently With Rolex 1016 Explorer


October 1962
Dr. No Premiers
London Pavilion
James Bond Rolex Submariner



April 1963
OHMSS Published (11th Bond Book)
James Bond Rolex Oyster Perpetual
FRWL Begins Filming Istanbul Turkey
James Bond Rolex Submariner
Fleming on Set Apparently With Rolex 1016 Explorer


October 1963
FRWL Premiere
Odeon Leicester Square
James Bond Rolex Submariner


DG

Donald Grant

So the above time line does illustrate that Rolex Submariner pre-dates the Rolex Oyster Perpetual from the novel OHMSS and that the Rolex Submariner had the tacit approval of Ian Fleming as THE James Bond Rolex.

DG