Mercedes Gleitze Rolex sells at Sotheby’s auction for 1,392,000 Swiss francs

As Rachel Cormack wrote for Robb Report , it was the timepiece that helped cement Rolex as a maker of impenetrable tool watches [1]. And thus began an important horological thread to the association of that watchmaker to the world of James Bond, via Ian Fleming and his 1954 novel, Live and Let Die . This past Sunday, Sotheby s sold The Companion Oyster worn by the late Mercedes Gleitze [2] during…