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JAmes Bond
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Ask seanf. I'm sure he knows for sure, since he diddles himself while watching Bond flicks over and over and over again. He's bound to have studied that film.
Sean K
Sean K
Come on Dizzy we all know seanf gives as good as he gets. Although I think he like to get or take it a little more.
Sean K
Sean K
lol
Actually I should say this. I am a JB freak. And sadly I hate to break this news to everyone but the first watch to appear was not even a Rolex.
fakemaster said:
OK, sorry for coming to the party late, but I was busy diddling myself to the underground volcano scene in You Only Live Twice.
And Fakey, you are very wrong about that. The first watch to appear in the film series was a Rolex. You can see it in a couple of scenes when Connery is getting on a boat. It's been very difficult to identify which particular model it was because the model didn't really exist. Lemme 'splain.
In the books, Bond wears exclusively Rolex and gives it a name check a couple of times. The producer of the Bond series, Cubby Broccoli, thought that a man of Bond's tastes would absolutely wear a Rolex, but, for whatever reason, they didn't have the budget to buy one for the film. So Cubby let Connery borrow his own Rolex watch. So the watch you see in Dr. No is Cubby Broccoli's own Rolex. Now here's the weird part-- Broccoli apparently had some custom mods done to the watch (I think a bigger crown was one thing). And he had to replace some other parts. So the original Bond watch really is a Fraken.
fakemaster said:
Fair warning, here, Fakey. You do NOT want to challenge my Bond related trivia. As others can tell you, it's a losing proposition.
Many vintage Rolex collectors call all early Submariners without crown guards (shoulderless) the James Bond Submariner, while others in the watch collecting field believe that the watch Connery wore in Dr. No and the others was the Rolex Submariner model 6538. Still other collectors believe that the Submariner Connery wore was more than likely one of four models or that perhaps each of the four models made an appearance in each of the early films, they are the 6200, 6538A, thick cased 6538 and the 5510.
By analyzing close ups of the Connery Submariner, it is clear that the watch has the big crown with no crown guard, has a gilt dial with two lines of printing on the upper part of the dial below the Rolex crown and two lines of printing on the lower portion of the dial that appear to be different colors (although it is hard to tell and you may see it differently), and has mercedes hands. The bezel insert is the non-graduated version, meaning there are no extra minute markings between 0 and 15 and the bezel pearl is in the center of a silver triangle. Later versions of the Submariner had the extra minute markings between the 0 and 15 including the ones without crown guards. These observations are important because the watch has characteristics of a 6200, a 6538A, a thick cased 6538 or even a 5510 (depending on whether you discern the depth rating of Connery's watch as white or gilt) despite what so called experts say about it being only a 6538.
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/rolex-submariner//
By analyzing close ups of the Connery Submariner, it is clear that the watch has the big crown with no crown guard, has a gilt dial with two lines of printing on the upper part of the dial below the Rolex crown and two lines of printing on the lower portion of the dial that appear to be different colors (although it is hard to tell and you may see it differently), and has mercedes hands. The bezel insert is the non-graduated version, meaning there are no extra minute markings between 0 and 15 and the bezel pearl is in the center of a silver triangle. Later versions of the Submariner had the extra minute markings between the 0 and 15 including the ones without crown guards. These observations are important because the watch has characteristics of a 6200, a 6538A, a thick cased 6538 or even a 5510 (depending on whether you discern the depth rating of Connery's watch as white or gilt) despite what so called experts say about it being only a 6538.
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/rolex-submariner//
seank1 said:
"So I went into karate mode and SCISSOR KICKED HER IN THE FACE! *WHAM BAM* Then I pulled her up by her hair but her wig came off, turns out she was bald! *GROSS* Fucking old people" -Seanf
I'm guna put my money on Seanf 2..
not that I doubt your knowledge Fakey but..
Look at what Seanf does when hes not humping animals and midgets !
Would never want to bet against a 'man' like that
- Ex
Ok, He is wearing a timex cellini sub tank francise seadweller ROLEX. It's not in clear site so it's probably a prop or a Skagen so it does'nt count right? Get to da CHOPPA!fakemaster said: