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Re: James Bond website speculates: DeVille for 007

In Response To: James Bond website speculates: DeVille for 007 *PIC* ()

Let me start off by saying that I'm not going to go out on a limb and say "it's definitely this" or "it's definitely that" based on a poor quality photo. However, I played around with the photo and blew up the wrist shot a bit using MGI PhotoSuite. I also owned this very same model on a bracelet until a few months ago, so I know what one looks like on the wrist. A few thoughts:

1) Unless those muscular arms of Daniel Craig are deceptively smaller than the photo would indicate, the watch is too big to be the DeVille Power Reserve. That model has a dial diameter of about 36mm and a case diameter of 39mm, which is noticeably smaller than a current Bond SMP. The watch is also very thin compared to the SMP and would not appear nearly as thick as the watch in the photo.

2) In a blowup of the wrist you can see that there is a lot of metal below the dial and that the hands are quite large. Not so with the DeVille.

3) In the blowup it also appears that there is a large second hand (you can make out three hands in the photo). The DeVille Power Reserve has a small subdial for the second hand, so this doesn't correspond to the photo.

I'm a small guy (5'9") with 6 3/4" wrists, and the DeVille looked about average on my wrist. It did not look big and bulky like the watch we are seeing in this photo.

So, I am concluding that, while I don't know what the watch in the photo is, I feel about 99% confident it is NOT the DeVille Power Reserve.