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Mathiew Amalric is wearing this bow tie in Quantum of Solace. Can anyone identify from the picture what it is (looks almost felt to me) and the rough dimensions?

I would like to purchase something similar for a tuxedo ... although maybe a tad smaller.

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It is called a 'butterfly'. The points are approximately 2 3/4".
 

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I saw a picture in Men's Vogue of a man wearing a larger-than-average black velvet bow tie with a tuxedo.

It's probably the same one - it's by Tom Ford. I think it was $75, which for his stuff is dirt cheap. Apparently buying things in his shop one gets a shoe-shine, lunch, and seventy-two virgins to carry you home on a divan.
 

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Looks closer to 3"?

I assume you two think it is indeed velvet, not satin?
Looks like velvet to me, and I would also think it is a 3 inch spread.
Looks closer to 2.25 or 2.
1] My estimate of the measurement derives from 30+ years of making them. And yours?

2] I did not say whether it was velvet or satin. I would say, for absolute certain, that one could not discern thet from either photo.
 

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1] My estimate of the measurement derives from 30+ years of making them. And yours?

2] I did not say whether it was velvet or satin. I would say, for absolute certain, that one could not discern thet from either photo.
Mr Kabbaz,

I wasn't contradicting your estimation, I was commenting on the bow in question from the Casino Royal. What's your estimation on its size?
 

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Mr Kabbaz,

I wasn't contradicting your estimation, I was commenting on the bow in question from the Casino Royal. What's your estimation on its size?
2.25".
 

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To give you some idea of proportions, not formal but at hand, this is actually 2.5 inches but shows as appxroximately 2.75 on my screen. The villain's bow appears a bit disproportionate to his lapel width, a '70s bow with a '60s/00's suit lapel.

In the OP, does the turn of the bow not appear insufficiently plump to be velvet? Yet in the bottom photo notice the variation of light reflection, dinner suit vis a vis bow. A case for Sherlock Holmes.

Now, about his sleeve length. This is is a multimillion $ production and, as is the habit of Bondian would be world-dominating megalomanics, no doubt he's supposedly unaffected by the vissicitudes of adjustable rate mortgages. Yet he appears as if he patronizes the same tailor as TeeVee's Craig Ferguson or the much maligned MW.

And there's a superfluous front button.

Ssssh, when I rent this thing for a dollar this time next year I want authenticity.

(On the cover of Men's Vogue Daniel Craig's Tom Ford suit has obvious pic stitching on the front darts. A bit of non-functional flash?)

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