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Originally Posted by Pete26
He is well-known for this. He asked me back in the early 00's on MWR when I posted a theory that Fleming was referencing one of the Canadian Rolex watches as he visited the OSS training camp in Canada at the start of the war and a lot of those watches had full radium numerals and hands.
They would have been popular.
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I wish I'd known that at the time. He made my life a misery. Mind you, Eric, the moderator over at WUS Omega, was so offended by it all and by how upset I was by the amount of trouble Deaton managed to stir up that he offered me an Air King, which has always been my favourite Rolex, for a few hundred pounds. I still get Bond geeks asking me watch questions to this day.
I really like small, indestructible, low key watches and it remains one of my favourite watches to this day. Not just because it's lovely, but because it will always remind me of the kindness and decency of a man I have great respect for and who really, really knew his watches.