Ian Fleming’s 1016 Explorer Movement and SN? Quandary? (v2)

[HappyHooligan]

I need to pull out my novels and dig back into them.

[77T]

Originally Posted by HappyHooligan

I need to pull out my novels and dig back into them.

See pg 111 of Live and Let Die.

A nice read on Bond watches over the years: https://commanderbond.net/9641/how-i...ond-watch.html


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[HappyHooligan]

Originally Posted by 77T

See pg 111 of Live and Let Die.

A nice read on Bond watches over the years: https://commanderbond.net/9641/how-i...ond-watch.html


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which publisher? I just have the new Penguin version and I don't see anything watch related on 111.

[77T]

Originally Posted by HappyHooligan

which publisher? I just have the new Penguin version and I don't see anything watch related on 111.

The original hard cover.

The quote:
“Suddenly there was a long metallic shape hanging in the water above him.

Behind it there was a jumble of broken rock leading steeply upwards.
It was the keel of the Secatur and Bond’s heart thumped in his chest.

He looked at the Rolex watch on his wrist. It was three minutes past eleven o’clock. He selected the seven-hour fuse from the handful he extracted from a zipped side-pocket and inserted it in the fuse pocket of the mine and pushed it home.”


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[Pete26]

Originally Posted by 77T

The original hard cover.

The quote:
“Suddenly there was a long metallic shape hanging in the water above him.

Behind it there was a jumble of broken rock leading steeply upwards.
It was the keel of the Secatur and Bond’s heart thumped in his chest.

He looked at the Rolex watch on his wrist. It was three minutes past eleven o’clock. He selected the seven-hour fuse from the handful he extracted from a zipped side-pocket and inserted it in the fuse pocket of the mine and pushed it home.”


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That is right Flemings second novel and written before he got his Explorer.

Here is a photo taken in 1962 on the set of Dr No and he is definitely not wearing an Explorer, it looks to me like an Omega or Longines, or maybe any other kind of white dialed watch, could even be an IWC, it's too difficult to tell.