I must stop writing about James Bond. I must stop writing about James Bond. I must... OK, I’m doing lines for my Madame Fashion Editor as punishment for this column, but she’s allowing me to say farewell to my unhealthy obsession with 007 with a swansong on Bond-like watches.
Over the years, Fleming’s hero has had a number of extraordinary timepieces equipped with funky hardware: a buzzsaw, laser beam, grappling hook, detonator for explosives, and even an electromagnet that comes in handy for unzipping a young lady’s dress in Live and Let Die. But New Bond relies less on gadgetry and more on realism, so Daniel Craig’s Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m Co-Axial Chronometer in Quantum of Solace is simply the production model; it is nevertheless