Horological Meandering

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Interesting website on the tower clock from 'Benjamin Button', & Sir Ian Flemming's Rolex

http://www.my-time-machines.net

http://www.my-time-machines.net/my_tower_clock_collection2.htm (The Ludwig Hainz clock, as seen in the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")

Also:  James Bond's Rolex Watch To Be Displayed at National Watch & Clock Museum

 Ian Fleming's character, James Bond, has always been associated with the finest of everything: cars, clothes, and, of course, watches. The National Watch & Clock Museum will be present an exhibit opening in the summer of 2010 that will explore the subject of James Bond's watches. The exhibit, Watches, James Bond Watches, will feature the watch that provided the inspiration for James Bond's wristwatch: Ian Fleming's own Rolex Explorer.
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| This is the first time that Ian Fleming's watch has been exhibited in the United States. The watch was recently on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, featured in an exhibit on the life and work of Ian Fleming. Fionn Morgan, Ian Fleming's stepdaughter, states, "Ian would have enjoyed the idea of displaying his own Oyster Perpetual as part of an exhibition of James Bond watches...It is wonderful to see the James Bond legacy presented through the watches that this character has worn. It is further most gratifying to see Ian's Explorer number 1016 displayed as the origin of this long and continuous chronology. Collectors and the public will learn a lot through this exhibition."