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Ian Fleming famously wrote that his James Bond character wore a Rolex. What not many people know, is that he himself wore one – specifically a stainless steel 1016 Rolex Explorer. When he wrote 1962’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, he based Bond’s watch on his real-life timepiece.
It read, “Bond surveyed his weapons. They were only his hands and his feet, his Gillette razor and his wristwatch, a heavy Rolex Oyster Perpetual on an expanding metal bracelet. Used properly, these could be turned into most effective knuckle busters.”
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