Thunderball (1965)

This is the 1965 film. For the 1961 novel, see Thunderball (1961).

Thunderball

The fourth James Bond film. James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. (IMDb)

Watches

Rolex Submariner 6538

Worn by Sean Connery as James Bond. The Big Crown Submariner returns for the underwater adventure. Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same Rolex Submariner on a NATO bracelet, noting Bond stays faithful to it across the series. (Montres de Luxe)

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Breitling Top Time

Worn by Sean Connery as James Bond. Breitling's own history names the reference as the Top Time 2002, the two-subdial version, and calls it the first watch ever modified by Q, fitted with a built-in Geiger counter. (Breitling) Montres de Luxe independently identifies the same Breitling Top Time and its plot function as a radioactivity detector used to locate the stolen atomic bombs. (Montres de Luxe)

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Breitling Navitimer 806

Worn by Paul Stassino as Angelo Palazzi (impersonating Major François Derval). The film's second Breitling belongs to a different character, not to Bond himself: NATO pilot Major François Derval wears a Navitimer 806 before SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe kills him so that his surgically altered double, Angelo Palazzi, can steal his identity and his atomic-bomb-laden aircraft. Palazzi wears Derval's Navitimer to complete the impersonation; after Bond kills Palazzi and recovers his body from the sunken plane, Bond retrieves the black-dialled, three-subdial steel Navitimer and hands it to Domino as proof that Largo murdered her brother. Montres de Luxe counts the watch among Connery's on-screen Breitlings without separating the two characters. (Montres de Luxe) James Bond Lifestyle instead traces the watch correctly to Derval and Palazzi, and to Bond's later use of it as evidence. (James Bond Lifestyle)

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