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    EON James Bond watch in "You Only Live Twice" (1967):
The Osato Chemical Wristwatch
   
         
   
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You Only Live Twice (feature film), ©1967 United Artists Corporation and Danjaq, LLC
  It's hard to believe that You Only Live Twice was the first EON Productions film in which James Bond did not wear a Rolex wristwatch.

Sean Connery only wore one watch as Agent 007 in this film.

You'll have to look close, because it visible only for brief glimpses at a very few points in the film. The watch has a light-colored dial, small bezel, and a thin, gold-colored case.

Images #1 and #2 at left were captured approximately 27 minutes, 28 seconds into You Only Live Twice. This is near the end of the scene where James Bond has first infiltrated an office within the Osato Chemical & Engineering building, hence our labeling it "The Osato Chemical Watch."

Images #3 and #4 come when approximately 29 minutes, 47 seconds have elapsed. Here, James Bond is in the office of Tiger Tenaka for their first meeting; he's just gotten up off of the chair into which he landed after having been rather easily captured here.

Notice any similarities here to the "Sylvia Trench watch" worn by Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No? [link]

Other production photos and the way in which this piece is worn up under the sleeve make it unlikely, however, that it is an automatic. As with the Sylvia Trench watch, there isn't enough information in these pictures to say whether or not this watch is a Rolex.

   
             
    But if the producers were staying consistent with their direction that 007 "could not just wear a watch, it needed to be a Rolex," just three short years after the death of Ian Fleming, then a reasonably good starting place for the identification of the one from You Only Live Twice may well be something from that brand, fitting this general description, dating no later than 1967 — and perhaps no newer than 1962.    
         
   

Posted by Dell Deaton, December 9, 2008 at 1:29 AM

   
   
   
   

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