Casino Royale (1953)
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- This is the 1953 novel. For the 2006 film, see Casino Royale (2006).
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Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France. As his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table. (Goodreads)
Watches
- Rolex Explorer 1016
- Fleming writes that Bond "could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex." The model is never named; researchers identify Fleming's own Explorer 1016, a reference Rolex introduced only years later, as the watch he had in mind.
Source text: "could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex." (Goodreads)