My name is Dell Deaton, and I’m author-creator of JamesBondWatches.com — the leading, authoritative resource on James Bond watches, from the original literary creation of Ian Fleming, to the major motion pictures of Eon Productions.
First and foremost, I created this iPhone App to make the joy of researching, identifying, and collecting James Bond watches fun. It’s another way to access information from more sources, to do so from more places, and to have details at your fingertips, where you need them, when you need them.
I’ve been interested in James Bond stories since the 1960s. My dad’s father sparked a fascination with wristwatches around that same time.
The earliest recollection I have of the two coming together was when I saw Roger Moore wear an LED digital as Agent 007 on the big screen. I knew Bond could wear his watches to dive, and I’d seen his gadget-watches search for nuclear bomb radiation, saw through ropes and magnetically unzip dresses.
But the glow of that reddish LED module was both state-of-the-art and real.
Later, when I was in middle and then high school throughout the 1970s, I was just as passionately engaged in discussions of the latest Eon Productions Bond release as anyone might be on the Internet today. Back then of course, we clipped, copied, and traded paper references; but it was still vitally important to be in the know — and to back up what you were saying!
Computer networking was in its infancy when I started at the University of Michigan the following decade. But I’m gonna bet that archived records exist of the James Bond watch discussions I was having there, too. Some of them will most assuredly reveal my efforts to keep up with model changes from one film to the next througout the 1980s.
Keeping up with the most recent switches today seems sedate by comparison.
In 2005, my investment in James Bond watches went from hobby to commitment. That was the year I launched my first blog, became first to identify the new watch worn by the new James Bond, and, well, went on to repeatedly raise the bar on a passion that increasing numbers of collectors share with me, be it casual or desperately serious.
Comments, suggestions, and simple “hi, how ya doin’s?” You can even send me an eMail by cutting and pasting app201010@delldeaton.com into your eMail client , if you’d like. (We’re working on something more streamlined for a future release.)
Meantime, thanks for joining me here on the James Bond Watches News App for your Apple iPhone!
Last updated January 6, 2011
Added August 31, 2010