One of my most vivid cinematic memories is seeing Roger Moore wearing the first Hamilton Pulsar 'P2 2900' in Live & Let Die back in 1973. It was a massive steel hockey puck of a watch that needed to be operated with the other hand to display the time, sucked batteries dry like they were mai tais, and cost close to a thousand quid, but it was still one of the coolest gadgets in the film because it had FUTURE stamped on it in large, friendly letters.Over at Watchismo, there's a neat little retrospective on the timepieces of 007. The Bond films had a lot of spiffy gadget watches sporting everything from built-in garrote wires, buzz saw, grapples, Geiger counters, homing devices, lasers, and detonators-- everything for the man on the go.
Some could even tell time.
Update: For more espionage goodness, there's this item on real-life camera watches.
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