In this week’s Six Secrets, we explore the essence of time, the pulsing heartbeat of espionage.
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The 39 Steps

In the clandestine world of espionage, time is a meticulously measured asset. Each second can hold the weight of life and death as split-second decisions and synchronized movements determine the fate of nations. In this week’s Six Secrets, we explore the essence of time, the pulsing heartbeat of espionage.

Gray Man
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Disrupting time

Luxury Swiss watches accentuate Hollywood’s A-List from Gray Man’s Ryan Gosling to Mission: Impossible’s Tom Cruise - a fitting tribute to timepieces steeped in espionage history. Back in 1876, Swiss spies Jacques David and Theo Gribi landed in America with clever disguises and a mission to unveil the hidden secrets of US tech giants. What they discovered shaped the future.

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Buying time

When a Cold War Protona Minifon spy kit showed up for sale on eBay, SPYSCAPE had to wonder: what other authentic spy watches and swag are sold online? Among the CIA medals and a prototype for an NSA hacking device, we also found a rare Superocean Steelfish Breitling MI5 spy watch and plenty of other classic spy gear.

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    Doomsday Midnight
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    Doomsday Clock

    The Doomsday Clock was hurling toward the apocalypse when it first appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947. It has since shaped culture from Watchmen comic books to Iron Maiden’s Two Minutes to Midnight. This year, we inched even closer with the hands now 90 seconds away from doom. Here are 10 times the clock has sounded its warning, a fascinating timeline of conflict, culture, and change.

    TICKING TOWARD DISASTER
    Putin watch
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    Iconic watches

    When Vladimir Putin’s PR spin doctor flashed a $620,000 watch at his wedding, former opposition leader Alexei Navalny was quick to identify it as a limited-edition Richard Mille in a blog entitled: "The bridegroom's watch cost more than your apartment.” Watches have always been fair game for analysis but what do they reveal? We’ve clocked the timepieces of 10 world leaders, movers and shakers.

    FOLLOW THE LEADER
    No Time to Die
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    No Time to Die

    Bond author Ian Fleming instilled 007 with exquisite taste, mirroring Fleming’s preference for elegant tailoring and sophisticated Swiss watches. “A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Savile Row suit,” Fleming once said. We trace the evolution of 007’s enviable wristwatches from Sean Connery’s Rolex Submariner to Daniel Craig’s Omega Seamaster.

    007 WATCHES
    39 Steps - Big Ben
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    Spy-streaming countdown

    Few elements generate as much nail-biting tension in cinema as a race against the clock. The rhythmic tick-tock drives characters to desperate measures. From Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps to Brad Pitt’s Spy Game, we count down our favorite pulse-pounding movies - meticulously compiled within an agonizingly short timeframe to ratchet up the tension.

    15 TICKING-CLOCK THRILLERS
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