James Bond's Breitling geiger counter wristwatch from 1965 film Thunderball to be auctioned by Christie's

London, May 21: A geiger counter wristwatch worn by actor Sean Connery in the James Bond film Thunderball will be auctioned by Christie's for an estimated price of up to £60,000. This watch was earlier bought by someone for £25 at a car boot sale.The Breitling Top Time watch had been missing for the last several decades until it turned up at the sale.The geiger counter watch helped Bond locate two stolen Nato atomic bombs during underwater scenes in the 1965 film, reports Daily Mail, London.The Breitling Top Time watch made by the Swiss firm was one of a number of items given to Jamesh Bond by Q, played by Desmond Llewelyn, when he went to Nassau, Bahamas to give him extra equipment. One of the hands of the watch shows the strength of radioactivity, to help him track down two Nato atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE.The basic watch was originally made by Breitling in 1962, then adapted by the James Bond art department. It was the only one produced for the movie.It is thought that the watch was passed on by someone who worked at Pinewood Studios, where most of the film was made.Christie's will sell the watch in a Pop Culture sale on June 26. A look at James Bond's watches over the years: Thunderball was the only time a Breitling watch made an appearance in films, while Hamilton and TAG Haeur made one-off appearances in Live and Let Die and The Living Daylights. But the classic Bond watch was Rolex in Ian Fleming's novels. In the 1962 film Dr No, producer Cubby Broccoli had to lend Sean Connery his own Rolex as the company would not loan one for the production.The Rolex Submariner became synonymous with Bond, appearing on his wrist in Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun, returning for one final outing in 1989's Licence to Kill.Bond's watches were adapted into gadgets by Q-Branch.In Live and Let Die, Roger Moore used his Rolex to unzip the dress of agent Miss Caruso with the line: 'Sheer magnetism, darling', while it also doubled as a buzz-saw to help his escape sharks.The Breitling in Thunderball helped him track down atomic bombs, while the production team opted for Seiko digital watches in the 1970s and 80s.In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond received ticker tape messages out of his watch, while in Moonraker his Seiko had built-in explosives and a detonator.Other Seikos included GPS tracking devices and a TV screen for 007 to take video calls.Bond's timepiece became a sleek Omega Seamaster in the 1990s, thought to be more modern than the Rolex. It first appeared in GoldenEye on Pierce Brosnan's wrist and is still worn by Daniel Craig, who became an ambassador for the brand.