Missed the James Bond watch exhibition? No worries the Frogman got you!

[Frogman4me]

I may have made this thread prematurely as the exhibition is not officially over till the 30th of this month so if you planned on going in the next two weeks, please do not continue this thread as I hate to be the reason it got spoiled for you. For the rest of you who just can't make it or have gone already this is for you.

Being a member of the (NAWCC) National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. I got in for free and they let my buddy in for free as well, the gentleman at the front desk was very friendly. When I showed him my membership card he asked "are you here for the Rolex watchmaking school?", I replied I wish!...lol

Being true watch guys I feel everyone should visit the museum for themselves and take in all the wonderful exhibits they have to offer. From a horological standpoint its truly amazing.

In the interest of keeping the rest of the museum a surprise I will only post a couple of photos outside of the James Bond Watch Exhibition.

For more information about the NAWCC here is link to their page.

http://www.nawcc.org/



Enjoy the photos guys









Great Job Dell Deaton















Batman



Bond...James Bond






























Iam Flemmings actual 1016 and his original manuscript with his handwritten corrections! This was the first time that Mr. Fleming's watch has been exhibited in the United States and the first time the watch has been together with the manuscripts since worn by Mr. Fleming himself!






































The Tuna Can














Bob Ridley restored most of these watches. This one is quite nice but has nothing on Ken's 4 liner 6538

















The list



Hope you enjoyed it

[kyle L]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, I want to go take a trip one day.

[sleddog]

Excellent David, thanks for sharing with us!

[Dave_T26]

Awesome! Nice work.

[threemonkeys]

That was fun. Thank you.

[Dr. Robert]

Terrific, thanks!

[versusone]

Great pictures. Thanks!

[TSW]

Thanks for taking us along

[usbzoso]

thank you very much ... really enjoyed the pics!

[VinSub1680]

Thanks David, awesome information

[Chris B]

Great shots


Thanks for thinking of us

[watch-guy.com]

One for the books OHMSS

[T5AUS]

Great post David, I want to get to this museum one day, not particularly for the Bond story, but the watches and all the other horological delights that they have there. Thanks

[BH13GMT]

Originally Posted by watch-guy.com

One for the books OHMSS

in action with Hilary

[Ezza8]

Thanks for sharing David!

[dddrees]

Cool, thanks for sharing David.

[Racer X]

Thanks David! What museum is that? Is the exhibition a traveling exhibition?

[delldeaton]

Disclaimer: Heads have rolled for allowing photographs to be taken in this "No Photography" special exhibit, and a warrant has been issued for David's arrest and confiscation of all images (valid in all 50 States, plus internationally).

Otherwise-- very nice photos, and overall coverage!

As it happens, a friend of mine from the local Boy Scouting organization in which we've both served here in Michigan is quite literally visiting the display today with his wife ("hi, Chris!"). So this gives me a nice audit of how things are looking for the VIP tour he should be receiving.

For those who haven't yet gone, this is a special exhibit at the National Watch & Clock Museum, which is located in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Not far from Gettysburg and Hershey. LINK It closes the last Saturday of this month, April 30.

My next trip to the Museum has me arriving on Sunday, May 1. I anticipate having some exciting news to share regarding Bond watches by the end of that week.

Nice to see so many places where you've included documentation, Frogman4me. Obviously we had to strike a balance between dumping piles of paperwork out into cases, and substantiating one of the truly exceptional aspects of this presentation: That we have authoritative paperwork to back James Bond watch identifications (such as those provided by Seiko UK, for example, from the Seiko employee who personally interfaced with Eon Productions).

Sometime down the road, I'll have to revisit this thread an comment on individual photos. Lot'sa particular stories, as you might imagine.

Otherwise: Thanks for sharing.

[Frogman4me]

Originally Posted by Racer X

Thanks David! What museum is that? Is the exhibition a traveling exhibition?

Its the National Watch and Clock Museum in Pennsylvania, I am unsure if this exact exhibition will be traveling, but I have heard that there will be an exhibition similar in Las Vegas soon.

Originally Posted by delldeaton

Disclaimer: Heads have rolled for allowing photographs to be taken in this "No Photography" special exhibit, and a warrant has been issued for David's arrest and confiscation of all images (valid in all 50 States, plus internationally).

Otherwise-- very nice photos, and overall coverage!


My next trip to the Museum has me arriving on Sunday, May 1. I anticipate having some exciting news to share regarding Bond watches by the end of that week.

Nice to see so many places where you've included documentation, Frogman4me. Obviously we had to strike a balance between dumping piles of paperwork out into cases, and substantiating one of the truly exceptional aspects of this presentation: That we have authoritative paperwork to back James Bond watch identifications (such as those provided by Seiko UK, for example, from the Seiko employee who personally interfaced with Eon Productions).

Sometime down the road, I'll have to revisit this thread an comment on individual photos. Lot'sa particular stories, as you might imagine.

Otherwise: Thanks for sharing.

Dell I promise that I asked the kind gentlemen upfront if it was ok to bring my camera. He stated "as long as you turn the flash off"

I am happy that you responded to the thread as I wanted to tell you that you did an excellent job and that I was completely satisfied with no complaints.

Please let us know the exciting news you may receive regarding Bond watches.

[delldeaton]

Originally Posted by Frogman4me

Its the National Watch and Clock Museum in Pennsylvania, I am unsure if this exact exhibition will be traveling, but I have heard that there will be an exhibition similar in Las Vegas soon....

Dell I promise that I asked the kind gentlemen upfront if it was ok to bring my camera. He stated "as long as you turn the flash off"

I am happy that you responded to the thread as I wanted to tell you that you did an excellent job and that I was completely satisfied with no complaints.

Please let us know the exciting news you may receive regarding Bond watches.

Oh, my--.

As someone who's worked as both a professional photographer and for 5 years in corporate security, I don't know which compels me more to address the camera thing.

First and foremost, the photography concern was out of deference to the Lilly Library, which is part of Indiana University, and owner of the Ian Fleming letters and James Bond manuscripts on display here. Notwithstanding their ownership of the physical documents, the copyrights related to the contents of those documents remains held by Ian Fleming Publications.

The concern, then, relates to experience with folks on the Internet who have and do simply post things to their websites, forums, and blogs pell-mell, without regard to any of that. I suspect I'm in solid company here among folks who take a dim view of such things (sorta like, say, taking the logo from an established watch brand, putting it on a look-alike, and claiming that's okay, because "it's only a picture of a 5-pointed crown").

A secondary concern would be flash, specific to those documents, of course.

These are all things that I've had to take into consideration in doing "official" photography as Guest Curator.

More generally, we obviously didn't want to give the impression that "seeing it on the Internet" was any substitute for actually going there in person. (I suspect you can attest to that difference yourself.) Folks like our friend Bob Ridley, of Watchmakers International, were incredible in terms of stepping up co-sponsor this special exhibit - in part because he shares our belief that having these watches physically present offers an unparalleled understanding of horological history ("James Bond" simply being the continuity thread through which this slice of that history is presented).

By the way, while I'm thinking of it--

Bob, the Museum, and I spent half-a-day with the Ian Fleming James Bond Rolex 1016 Explorer over at the NAWCC School of Horology last June. He was on camera, both still and video, with that watch, providing the sort of examination and commentary of that piece which was nothing short of incredible. My own 1016 was featured as part of this as well, offering contrasts not just between the dials, but inside the mechanism as well.

Access and lead-times were such that, while we'd always planned on putting this together after the exhibit closed, the photographs and videography have been locked down for almost a year now.

Trust that TRF will be one of the first to know when that's made available.

No exhibit in Las Vegas. A presentation had been slated on how the exhibit was designed, but that was a project management orientation, not any sort of watches shown.

Would there be any interest in a book related to the exhibit? As some of you know, we just published a James Bond Watches Price Guide, and that's been very well received. But something on the exhibit would, of course, include photographs; and it would allow us to sorta capture all the stories that are behind-the-scenes here (as, for example, I've shared when I give tours, all that went into my transportation of Ian Fleming's watch back to the Museum - by wearing it on my wrist).

On a tangential matter: Is it possible to embed YouTube videos here? If so, I need a refresher on "how to."

Thanks.

[Michael M.]

Awesome post David, really enjoyed seeing the pictures! Thanks for sharing!

[Puffy]

amazing post david thanks for sharing man!!

TRFer of the week

[Frogman4me]

Originally Posted by sleddog

Excellent David, thanks for sharing with us!

Originally Posted by Chris B

Great shots


Thanks for thinking of us

Originally Posted by Michael M.

Awesome post David, really enjoyed seeing the pictures! Thanks for sharing!

Originally Posted by Puffy

amazing post david thanks for sharing man!!

TRFer of the week

Anytime guys, I am glad you enjoyed it. I would hate for my fellow TRF friends to have missed the exhibition

[SkyKing31]

thanks for sharing .. I enjoyed this post

[lhanddds]

Thanks David, great pics and I enjoyed the tour very much

[NorthernPike]

Thanks for that. I'm especially interested in the Heuer 1000 since I wore one daily for about 25 years, but I couldn't read the text on the accompanying card. Can you please post another pic, or transcribe it for me?
Thanks!

[Frogman4me]

Originally Posted by NorthernPike

Thanks for that. I'm especially interested in the Heuer 1000 since I wore one daily for about 25 years, but I couldn't read the text on the accompanying card. Can you please post another pic, or transcribe it for me?
Thanks!

Tag Heuer 980.031 Timothy Dalton wore this watch in "Living Daylights" (1987)

[delldeaton]

Originally Posted by NorthernPike

Thanks for that. I'm especially interested in the Heuer 1000 since I wore one daily for about 25 years, but I couldn't read the text on the accompanying card. Can you please post another pic, or transcribe it for me?
Thanks!

Sorry, didn't see this question last time I read through--

Timothy Dalton wore a Heuer or TAG Heuer 980.031 PVD "Nite Dive" model as James Bond throughout the pre-title sequence in The Living Daylights. So did the bad guy (who got killed when the truck blew up, after he drove it off the Gibraltar road); so did Felix Leiter, at least in his last scenes in the film.

Here's a photo of the model we're talking about:

Okay, so, while confidence is extremely high on the one above, this next one is a lot lower. It is believed that Dalton wore a Heuer / TAG Heuer Professional 980.013, similar to the one shown below, throughout most of the rest of the movie:

If you're interested in more detail on how these watches were identified, reasons why other watches were eliminated, et cetera, I wrote two feature articles for an independent James Bond site last year that are also hosted in 8 parts on my Blog:

James Bond Wore a TAG Heuer Wristwatch

(By the way, much larger, higher-resolution examples of these images are available on my Photo website as well.) Hope this helps.

[bewithabob]

Thank you so much David, for sharing this fabulous exhibit! I feel like I was there.

[Ed Rooney]

Very cool. Nice to see the venerable Seiko 7a28 get some recognition as the chronograph from A View to a Kill.

I might try to take a day trip and see that exhibition.