A Photo Tour of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors Museum>>>>>>>>>

[andromeda673]

Besides hanging out with Dennis all day, I bet it was a great experince! all in all nice photo tour and I have been checking out that mueseums youtube videos, there really intresting and great, I would love to go sometime

[ChaunceyJack]

A splendid pictorial report of a magnificent facility, one that every watch collector, clock lover, and just everyone should not miss. Thank you for this contribution!

[JBHII]

A splendid pictorial report of a magnificent facility, one that every watch collector, clock lover, and just everyone should not miss. Thank you for this contribution!

Glad you liked it!

[Dell Deaton]

Just got my Watch Talk Forums newsletter eMail this morning and really appreciate the LINK to these images. I knew you all had made the visit, but didn't exactly know where the photos were posted here. Fantastic!

To further get the word out on what I believe will be of wide interest to potential National Watch & Clock Museum visitors, I've created a (short) LINK to this Thread and Posted it to my bondwatches Twitter page.

http://twitter.com/bondwatches

With your indulgence, I'd also like to again mention that the NAWCC will host what we believe is the first-of-its-kind exhibition of James Bond watches, Ian Fleming to EON Productions, opening June 17, 2010, and running through May 2011. Incredibly, we quickly received very enthusiastic encouragement from Mr. Fleming's stepdaughter, through whom arrangements were made to exhibit "the original James Bond watch," his personal Rolex 1016 Explorer, which was referenced in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel, published in 1963).


My personal watch, with original dial: Believed to have been produced just a few hours before Mr. Fleming's

It's also kinda neat to note that the Hamilton Pulsar P2, which was the first watch shown on the wrist of Roger Moore when he was introduced as James Bond in the movie Live and Let Die, has a historical connection with where the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors ("NAWCC") is now based.


Yes, Virginia-- there are still working examples of this original threat to the Swiss mechanicals out there.

We also hope to provide definitive information on a number of James Bond watches that's never previously been available. Some of this relates to SEIKO models, many of which, as it turns out, were technological breakthroughs in their own right (by which I mean, aside from having been worn by 007). Great contemporaneous advertising materials have also been collected for display at the National Watch & Clock Museum as part of this exhibit.


This SEIKO LC Quartz 0674-5009 is identical to the "Atlantis SEIKO" worn by Roger Moore as James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me.

In addition to the "Bond Watches, James Bond Watches" exhibition, I understand that the Museum is open to making arrangements for Get Togethers during its run (or, I suspect, any other time). The 2010 National Convention opens on or about June 17, so there's that week; but we should definitely be discussing other options as well.

Again, John, et al., thanks for posting your wonderful photo essay. And for allowing me to supplement it.


No complaints about Daniel Craig's Planet Oceans here, but the 2531.80 Seamaster is gonna be hard to beat as the Omega-Bond icon; that, and, well, Pierce Brosnan was so ubiquitous as their Ambassador!