James Bond watch sells for $198,000

0
157

A Rolex watch worn by Roger Moore in the James Bond film ‘Live and Let Die’ – complete with rotating saw and bullet deflector – fetched 180,000 Swiss francs (150,000 euros, $198,000) at auction on Monday. An anonymous buyer snapped up the gadget-lover’s dream after it failed to reach its estimated 200,000 to 400,000 franc price tag at Christie’s in Geneva. The “Submariner” Rolex boasts a saw used by 007 in the film to cut through a rope to save Solitaire – played by Jane Seymour – from some hungry sharks. Its hyper-intensified magnetic field was meanwhile intended to help Bond deflect bullets, but instead was used to unzip the dress of a love interest at the beginning of the 1973 film.