About Beretta James Bond Limited Edition 24ct. Gold
To celebrate 50 years of the world's favourite spy, James Bond, we've created this unique and luxurious collectors item, the James Bond 007 Gold Beretta.
The Beretta was one of 007's favourite weapons of choice and we're giving you the opportunity to own one of 50 limited edition 24ct. gold plated replicas.
£1,995.00
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:44 pm
by BowMan
Nice but not my cup of tea. Somehow I do not like to mix guns and gold, in fact the further apart the better...
Much better to have a golden trigger finger
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:52 pm
by Safarigent
I am betting those grips arent plain ol' plastic!
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 6:08 pm
by dr.jayakumar
looks like a walther to me.if i am not mistaken beretta did not come out with this shape at all.
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dr.jk
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 6:25 pm
by paragvns
Ya, walther ppk is the bond's gun...... Don't know. How. This has listed as berreta
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:01 pm
by Skyman
He had a beretta in the earlier movies.I think he gets the PPK in thunderball....
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:37 pm
by Grumpy
Bling, bling - it`s a Punjabi Special ! lol
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:04 pm
by Safarigent
You can be sure ounjab would be the No. 1 state to snap up such pieces should they ever be available here!
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:07 pm
by timmy
<horn blows loudly>
Wrong, no cigar!
Bond gets the PPK right at the beginning of the series, in Dr. No before he heads out to encounter the "Three Blind Mice." Everybody has known for 50 years that 007 is associated with the Walther PPK, not a Beretta, gold or otherwise!
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:13 pm
by Safarigent
Did anyone notice the holster?
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:28 pm
by Grumpy
Ah - but he started with a Beretta .... and he used a Beretta in the books.
Seems to me that he went from a .25 acp powder puff ladies gun to a .32 powder puff ladies gun .... The PPK was prettier however.
I wonder when Walther will produce a gold-plated James Bond PPK ? They could also produce a gold-plated James Bond air pistol - an LP53 as he was shown holding in several of the posters for the earlier movies.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:52 pm
by Skyman
Isn't it surprising how a man like Bond would carry a PPK? For concealment? A .32 ACP wouldn't help much against say....JAWS.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:02 pm
by Grumpy
That`s because film makers know very little about guns .... and Ian Fleming knew just as little.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 11:57 pm
by Kittu
Hi gues famous james bond carried beretta model 418 in earlynovels orfilms.It can be a future weapon used by 007 in upcoming films.
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 12:04 am
by timmy
Sure, he started with a Beretta, and you see it for 10 seconds in the first movie -- who cares? The point is, Bond is associated with the PPK.
Secondly, I would note that 9mm Parabellum use was still pretty much confined to the military when Fleming wrote and when the movies were begun. For instance, if you read George Jonas's account of the secret squads the Israelis sent into Europe after the Munich Massacre, agents were still being armed with .22 Short Berettas at that point. The job of an agent wasn't to be playing Rambo, nor was the focus of the Bond movies on carrying Colt Walkers or Automags, like Clint Eastwood.
Bond had other gadgets that were far more interesting, like Aston Martins with ejector seats, submarine Lotuses, wristwatches with saws and lasers, and other such accoutrements of a modern undercover agent.
The PPK was his signature, a point made over and over and over in many movies. Who cares about a Beretta?
No, ashokgodara, Dr. No was the first James Bond film. As the youtube clip makes plain, it was ditched right away at the very beginning of the movie series.
Also, I might mention that the .32 ACP is more than twice as powerful as the .25 ACP. While no powerhouse by any means, it does serve to put into perspective the armorer's comment about it being a thumping cartridge -- it is, compared to a .25
Every joker on the street who knows nothing about guns knows the PPK is James Bond's gun. He probably is more likely to think that a "Beretta" is an old TV detective played by a wife-killing criminal, rather than a handgun.