Dive watches are so cool that even James Bond wears on

It seems only right for me to start this column where the last one left off: watch auctions. After all, auction season is upon us, and the latest hot news is that one of the most extreme dive watches ever made will go under the hammer on 8 November. The auction house is Christie’s, with the firm’s Rare Watches Auction in Geneva, and the watch in question is the Rolex Deep Sea Special Number 1, the very first of the extreme divers that was made by the Swiss watchmaker, back in 1953. It’s a bit of a coup for Christie’s, considering that Phillips will be auctioning the Rolex Deep Sea Special Number 35 at its Geneva auction at around the same time. Rolex’s success in the 50s forced Omega to turn the Seamaster, a dress watch line into a dive watch line in 1957.