Well-maintained models in the original packaging sell for upwards of $1,000 and unopened containers of the rarer first model can sell for more than $2,000.
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The Seiko TV Watch is highly coveted electronic collectible in the US and in Japan.The Guinness Book of Records calls the Seiko TV Watch in its 1984 edition the “smallest TV set in the world”.In it, Moore’s Bond, with a Seiko TV Watch on his wrist, turns his attention to a young lady who works as one of Q’s assistants. The risqué name of the next Bond film, Octopussy, caused a furore in England. I guess this would be classed as retro now? Thoughts: Iconic, but a very dated looking watch. Then slowly from there people got interested in mechanical watches again. It had all been Japanese for 20 years and suddenly the Swiss came up with something that was fresh and cool and new. It went back to that analogue ‘two-hand’ way of reading the time. It’s interesting with Bond they switched from the Rolexes to Seiko, that time was the same switch when people pushed mechanical watches aside and they all wanted these new ‘smart watch’ of the day.Īt the end of the 80s, Swatch, the plastic watch – it was Swiss. Sophie Furley, editor at large for Watchonista, reflects on the impact the Quartz crisis had on the watch manufacturing industry in Switzerland. The introduction of Seiko really was a shift in the Bond franchise away from Swiss movement, but was this also happening in the real world? Were people more intent on having digital watches?.The original can be found on this collectors site.A Rolex GMT Master assures precise timekeeping, while a Seiko 0674 LC functions as a pager: a label-making printer inside the watch ejects strips of paper bearing important messages from the office spymaster M. The Spy Who Loved MeĮast meets West with a bang in The Spy Who Loved Me, in which sparks fly between Bond and Major Anya Amasova. Thoughts: This is my favourite, the most iconic watch and interesting watch to date. Original is in a Swedish collection and was bought for 365, 000 CHF.He had an interesting life, survived a plane crash and a lightning strike. This was adapted for screen by Syd Cain art director. Original had the working saw bezel with compressed air.Gadget Watches of James Bond – The Submariner designed by Sid Cain A 1972 Submariner Rolex ref 5513.
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