Huffington Post cites "Bond watch phenomenon"

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Okay-- so it looks like space watches aren't the only thing that are worthy of coverage these now-four decades later. The Huffington Post put up an article last night referencing the last day of filming on the movie Goldfinger: Talk about timely news!

"Another '60s Anniversary: The Ur-Action Blockbuster Goldfinger," by William Bradley LINK

Here's the key paragraph that brings me to Rolex Forums:

Goldfinger, incidentally, really triggered the phenomenon of "the Bond watch," with Bond iconically posed early in the film lighting a cigarette in a cantina waiting for his bomb to go off. There are actually two Bond watches in Goldfinger, as there were two in the beginning of the series in Dr. No. The constantly identified Rolex Submariner dive watch, and a seldom mentioned, unidentified ultra-thin gold watch with a white face on a black leather strap, which looks like an Omega or Rolex dress watch of the period. The Rolex Submariner was the one that was emphasized, and so the one that caught on as the rugged action man's watch, though it was finally supplanted in the '90s in Bond films by the equally promoted Omega Seamaster.

We've discussed that "unidentified" watch at length here before: "The Sylvia Trench Watch," that seems to be the most over-looked and curiously dismissed of all Bond watches - as well as the first to make a movie appearance.



Still, seeing this reference out among the masses is pretty impressive, eh? Also a curious detail to include along with the defining characteristics of the James Bond brand, I think.

As I said in my Blog today, I of course disagree with the author's assessment of the Goldfinger novel. But you sure can't let a difference of opinion get in the way of the fact that this guy has really done his homework, and put out an article that's so much more than the average stuff so commonly seen by folks who read as if the whole subject was forced upon them, or written simply to fill space.