From Russia with Love (1957)
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- This is the 1957 novel. For the 1963 film, see From Russia with Love (1963).
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Ian Fleming's fifth Bond novel. Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH, in the novel President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books. (Goodreads)
Watches
- Girard-Perregaux Full Calendar
- A "bulky gold wristwatch on a well-used brown crocodile strap" with a sweep second hand and calendar windows; Fleming uses the flashy gold watch to signal Grant's vanity, and Bond appropriates it after destroying his own Rolex. Fleming names no maker; the Girard-Perregaux recorded here is the modern 1966 Full Calendar, the manufacture's later reissue of the mid-century gold calendar watches his description matches.
Source text: "bulky gold wristwatch on a well-used brown crocodile strap" (Goodreads)