James Bond
If you know a Bond fan, you know the type. The person who has seen every movie multiple times and has strong feelings about which actor really should have played Bond. Who will happily explain to you what you did wrong with the Martini scene in Casino Royale. Shopping for them is a trial in itself. They have everything. They know everything. They will recognise annoyingly unfussy gift buying from the other side of the room.
This collection exists because there's not a huge amount out there for Bond fans that lives up to what being a Bond fan actually means. Most of it is unimaginative, tacky and about as classy as the crappy plastic Assassin’s Creed Aston Martin you can buy from the petrol station forecourt. This isn’t us. We started searching for stuff that gets what being a Bond fan is all about. It’s not just bullets and gadgets, its style, it’s humour, and a type of cool that has been emulated and referenced for sixty years, but never bettered.
We guarantee everything in this store against being lame. Books. Bar ware. Things that you can display on your desk, or bookshelf that just quietly reminds people that the person who owns them has taste. We didn’t want to sell junk that happened to have a gun printed on it. We wantted to curate the sort of gifts that a real Bond fan would love; gifts that show you’reGifts that show you’ve been thinking about the person, not just dumping clothes into a shopping basket.
Some of these gifts are perfect for birthdays. Some are great Christmas gifts for that guy who has everything and has definitely seen every Bond film at least twice. Some are just perfect if you know someone who considers asking for a well made Martini a series of personal challenges rather than just ordering a drink.
Bond is still here, twenty years after Sean Connery retired, because he is someone that people want to be. Sure, the cars and suits don’t hurt. But it’s his mulish self assurance. The confidence of a man who walks into a room and immediately knows what he’s doing. A nice Bond gift gently references all of the above. Nothing here, we think, blows that metaphor smoke ring.