Roger Moore with that Rolex and Jane Seymour. © 1973 Danjaq, LLC & United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved. (Click on image to enlarge).
JAMES Bond aficionados might be stirred by the lure of his Rolex from the 1973 film Live and Let Die. Modified by Q the Rolex ref 5513, the most memorable watch to appear in film, comes up at Christie’s sale of important watches in Geneva on November 14. The submariner watch features a bezel spinning at high at high speed to cut ropes and chains.
In Live and Let Die it bore an ultra strong magnet designed to neutralise bullets. 007 used it to unzip Ms. Solitaire’s dress. The Rolex was modified for Bond by the brilliant film production designer Syd Cain and the lot is to be sold together with an original construction drawing and two signed images from the set. (est: SFr. 200,000 – 400,000 – Euro 163,000- 327,000).
UPDATE: IT MADE 219,000 SWISS FRANCS, $243,959.