Buzzsaw bezels, detonators, and abseiling wires are all well and good, but in my mind, the best Bond watch gadget was… the watch itself. And for that, you have to go back to Ian Fleming's own writing:
"Bond surveyed his weapons. They were only his hands and feet, his Gillette razor and his wrist-watch, a heavy Rolex Oyster Perpetual on an expanding metal bracelet. Used properly, these could be turned into most effective knuckledusters." – Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963.
This was the practical, quick-thinking Bond, on his own in a villain's mountaintop lair, with none of Q Branch's wizardry at hand. He's a man who gets by on his wits and what's around him. And when it's time to make his escape on skis, in the middle of the night, he first needs to dispatch a henchman. Simple, brutal, effective, with little regard for his watch as anything but a useful tool. Leave the flashy stuff to the movie star Bonds.
"Bond's right flashed out and the face of the Rolex disintegrated against the man's jaw."
Job done.
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