Pulsar P3 - When a Digital Watch cost more than a Rolex - 1970s LEDs
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- Few things have gone from being desirable to dismissed as quickly as the LED watch. In this video there's a brief recap of LED watch history as well as a demo of a Pulsar P3.
Resources
Pulsar
pulsarledtime.com
www.oldpulsars.com
P2 Info www.timetrafficker.com/watches...
P3 Info www.timetrafficker.com/watches...
Lots of pictures of beautiful LED Watches
www.theledwatch.com/watches
Old Magazine Articles from the early 1970s
First Electronic Digital Watch
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Wrist Computer
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New Digitals
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Early LCD watches
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Better call Saul is set in the early 2000s.
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"Wrist Computer Tells Time Without Hands"
What an amazing headline.
Ironically you need hands to activate the display lol
I was also thinking that without hands, are they even still wrists? Woah, dude
Now you just have to ask your smart watch and it will literally tell you what the time is...
@@Colddirector i think the no hands means without the minute and hour hand
Nick r/wooosh
Boy, you've hit the nail right on the head. In 1975, for my 18th birthday, my parents said they would buy me a Rolex. But I said that I'd rather have one of the new fangled quartz watches (a Seiko with an analogue face) which was the same price. Six years later when it packed up I took it in for repair, but the shop said it wasn't worth it because the could sell me a similar new watch for £30. We really didn't realise in the 1970s that electronics were about to drop in price so drastically. I remember my parents buying a Grundig transistor radio and it cost a week's wages. Can't help wondering what the Rolex would be worth now.
Thanks for the video, well done! When the P2 came out in 1973, it cost more than I was making in a month, in the USAF. I was dazzled with the introduction of the Hamilton LED, it was so cool. Last year I saw an eBay ad featuring a P2, and thought DAMN, I can afford one now! I have a P2 Tiffany & Co. that I worked on and got running, and a P3 gold filled. In the late 70s, I bought a Compuchron for about $12, just so I could have an LED watch, but it and all others had the LED bar segments. Now, with my P2, I check the time often, just to see the LED dot segments. And to think...it only took me 45 years to get a Pulsar. Next, I'm looking for a 1974 white Corvette coupe with saddle interior. Hmmm, I've waited for that for 45 years, too...
70's comedian Gallagher used to have a joke that went "Is it bad taste to give a digital watch to a one-armed man?" This only makes sense if you realize about the button-push for display.
In the first or second season of Saturday Night Live they had a fake commercial for an LED watch. It had four buttons, two on each side. The joke was all four had to be pressed to display the time, three could be done by the wearer but the fourth had to have someone _else_ press it. At the end the voiceover said: ''The Whizbang... Like asking a stranger for the time''.
The author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, made a lot of digital watch jokes. Form Wikipedia:
Earth's population are described in the first novel as "so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." When Arthur Dent temporarily loses his left arm as a consequence of the Infinite Improbability Drive, he panics upon realizing he can no longer operate his digital watch. Hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings built the supercomputer Deep Thought in part to comprehend why people spend so much of their lives wearing digital watches.
There is video of him discussing it here: th-cam.com/video/P0keUhMiZ44/w-d-xo.html
You also need two hands to SET the time.
And the award for dude who likes the worst comedy ever goes to
70s, 80s, and 90s comedian.
So if Dick retired in 1974 at the age of 65 he'd be 109 years old in 2018. RIP, Dick.
R.I.P.
He surely was a really impressive Dick.
and its either his wife or kids sold the watch
It's the first time i heard about this guy Dick but he was a Damn good man he fought in Vietnam and he will be missed
Why
@@user-jx2xc9ex8f he was kind of a dick and fought for the wrong side the whole time
The team went very far with waterproofing, the buttons aren't connected to the module with gaskets, they are actually cobalt magnets activating reed switches.
That is a very good piece on information that got lost among the "dick" jokes...
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For some reason this comment made my day
9:43 he say that.
So the whole thing is magnet operated? Cool
I can't understand why it is that when someone retires they get a nice watch. For the first time in their life they don't care what time it is and NOW you give them a nice watch. Shouldn't they get that when they start the job? lol
I dont think he sold it himself, he's probably dead for a while if he retired in the 70s
They should get a nice pair of slippers.
that read like a joke right out of Seinfeld
Watches are just Nice!
Bargain Boondocker Watches are more jewelery or fashion accessories than things specifically to tell the time, as you could always get cheaper watches that did the same thing. For a man to receive it as a gift it might be the most expensive accessory they have and potentially a family heirloom eventually. It's like when certain sports or universities or whatever give you a special ring, or when someone gives you nice cufflinks. They either have no purpose or there are cheaper things that do the same job, but that's not the point. It's function is secondary.
Plot twist, the guy's name wasn't 'Dick'.
Turns out his colleagues didn't really like him.
why dont trhey jsut use richard. It's alot better then having "DICK" on your watch
Dick=Detective.
James, i think it was a joke....Dumbass #woosh
LOL
R/wooooooooosh
5:35 he clicked on playboy. Lmao
Keen eye there mate.
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@DF AMO Look, the playboy link is purple @ 5:35. That means the link has been clicked before boy. As men, we should always think sexual punk.
Good eye
well it is a good magazine with good interviews and articles.
That first Hamilton Pulsar is a design masterpiece even for today's age!!
Timeless design
"dont rub a baloon on your head while youre doing it " lol
“I don’t like expensive watches”
**checks eBay**
“$1000-10,000”
Ah, cheap
1000 isnt a lot for a watch
Max Tactical bruh, we are all not rich
@@Wanking_wanker has nothing to do with being rich. Because someone can't afford a $15 Casio, doesn't make it expensive.
Max Tactical you can find luxury watches for $500 and $1000 is cheap for this watch, it’s a expensive watch
@@Wanking_wanker $500 is not a luxury watch lol
We enjoyed your 1970's LED Wristwatch Video. My wife Sherry, and I were most pleasantly surprised that you chose to include my custom-adjusted opening Wrench and my Batteries with homemade Spacers,(the good set !!). Great Video. Best Wishes, Eddie & Sherry Alston, England UK.
"This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. .... And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches." Douglas Adams
electropunk42 great book by the way!
Which book?
@@TheOldAmishMan Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy!
Still, a pretty neat idea
LOL in the 21st century digital watches are for peasants :)
Dick was a nice chap apparently. To the point of receiving a 2 grand watch as a gift from his mates :)
Viriatvs of Lvsitania The way it was phrased makes it sound more like he was a partner in a lawyer firm, rather than just mates
A note on static discharge and electronics. Back in the 70's the die geometry was way larger (20 micron) compared to today (0.2 micron or sometimes smaller) so from that standpoint they were less sensitive. However the static protection circuitry on the chip pins amounted to - - - bugger all. Nothing what so ever - dilly squat - zip - nada and nothing. These days even CMOS (which used to blow up if you even thought about static electricity in the same room in the 70's) has built in Shottky's and all sorts that mean you stand a fair chance of the chip working if you poke it after shuffling across a nylon carpet then attach yourself to a van de graff generator for half an hour. Some of the MIL-STD human body models are in effect 2000V off about 30pF. That is a hell of a poke to something that makes a pin prick look like the marianis trench.
You should be working for the top secret department in the federal government.
That size of a .2 microns die shrink isn't correct anymore. CPUs are about to enter the Angstrom era, and they're currently around 20 to 8 NM. So add a 0 to his statement and he's closer, but right now commercial CPUs are about 180 nanometers smaller than .2 microns.
Christmas of ‘78, my parents bought me a Texas Instrument LED watch. Very 1970s-looking with a silver stretch-band, black edges around the sides of the watch, a silver bezel, and black-looking display area (until you press the button and the LED lights up, of course). Looked like something a Star Wars StormTrooper would wear, which of course my 8-year-old self found fascinating at the time. LOL
I remember 1 Xmas back in the very early 190s. My mom & dad got me a credit card sized, musical Casio calculator. It was so awesome.
LMacNeill - Do you still have that watch?
u made it sound cool i want one
LMacNeill
I think I got that same watch in Christmas of 1978 when I was also 8 years old. Funny to still remember it in such detail today. It really was a cool thing at the time. :)
I didn't get a watch, I got a pen with digital clock on it! It was already early 80's , so I guess it was not that expenses, but for a kid like me, it was priceless...I was 11 in '81, but I do remember my father wearing a watch with red led displays...
I remember watching an episode of Happy Days with my family back in the mid seventies. I commented to my dad that Potsie (one of the characters) was wearing a digital watch. My dad took this as a hint that I wanted one for Christmas. I said I was pointing out the fact that they didn't have watches like that back in the fifties. I still got my first digital watch that Christmas though!
Edgar Lee You should’ve just told him! Less risky lol
That magnet system to set the time/date is absolutely genius
Loved this. It was a real trip back into my childhood in the early 70s. I remember Ford having a pulsar but most of all Telly Savalas as Kojak has one. I saved up to get one from watches of Switzerland but could only raise 75 quid. The sales guy told me LED would never last as LCD could be seen in the sunshine. But then he told me an analogue quartz was the future. I bought a seiko SQ. loved it. Wore it for ten years until I forked out for my first Rolex Datejust. This was at the time Rolex was still making the vile oyster quartz. I still have my Datejust 40 years on. It was the start of my collection. I do remember pages of newspaper ads for LED watches. All for about 15 quid. This would have been in the mid 70s. We all had them. Texas Instruments did one. The seiko...? I gave to a friend who emigrated to New Zealand. He wore it until it 2011 when it vanished in the earthquake. Anyway. Thanks for the video. It brought back many memories.
I never thought that LED or LCD watches had ever been luxury items! When I was a kid in the 80'/90' you can find them as gift in the washing machine detergent paks.
Save yeah cheap ones
It’s 10:45 PM. I have to be awake at *4:00 AM.*
I just watched a 15/min video on some obscure retro watch _for no apparent reason._
I’m convinced it’s a form of mind control.....but in a good way.
What a great video. I’ve had in my memory from school around 1981/82 a kid who got a digital watch with the red display and he pressed it and I went ‘wow’ to this day I want to buy one
For people confused why Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy made references to "people who thought digital watches are a really neat idea". This is the era Douglas Adams was writing the first book. And it got published just as the back lash was starting to happen, which made the reference twice as funny.
Jon-Paul Filkins Ok, now I finally understand his beef with digital watches, which i have always thought were a pretty neat idea.
When I was a kid in the early 90's digital watches we're being very heavily marketed as trendy and cutting edge. Yet you could get a cheap one for about five bucks. Granted that's like 10 bucks today. Still, backlit LCD watches we're treated as the thing that would make you the talk of the play ground. I read the Hitchhiker's Guide series for the first time at around the age of 10 when super bright blue backlights were new and I STILL thought that joke was on point.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Everyone I knew wanted a Timex of some description with Indiglo. To be fair; it was a fairly decent backlighting system at a time when most were lacklusture.
@@bobdole4694 most of the "backlights" on watches before Indiglo were tiny, impotent LEDs that were neither bright not well positioned. Indiglo was like the first actual backlight.
When I was a kid I had a LED watch that someone gave me with no band (in the late 80's) and I loved the display with all the teenie led dots.... So I hooked it up to 2 taped together "D" cell batteries and rigged the screen to stay lit somehow. It looked like a bomb and was no longer a watch... But I loved the display and it was my bed clock. I slept with it for quite a while.
Wow nice
That’s a neat story! I’m sure it was kool to see it when you woke up in the middle of the night.
Try wearing that to school now...
You just inspired an art piece I just want you to know that
Lol
I love Techmoan. I hope he never retires, I mean, what could you buy him ???
How about an eReader comprised entirely of nixie tubes?
@@Redskies453 he's probably got one already, let's be honest
1977 I had my first Time LED watch...loved it and have been searching for one ever since. Large LED display and easy to see...handy now as I get older and my vision is fading. Great video yet again...keep up the good work
While I assume most people would devalue the watch for having the personalized engravings but to me that's what makes it more special. It's not a pristine museum piece, it was someone's personal watch with a history. Honestly I'm surprised Dick didn't consider passing the old watch down to a son or grandson. I have a lot of old possessions (mostly tools and tech) from my grandparents not just because I love old tech but because in a way having all these old things is kinda like a memorial to them.
Chances are it was one of his descendents who actually sold it, as it's unlikely he'd still be alive today if he'd retired in the seventies.
I totally agree its strange how pristine examples that may have been shut in there case in a drawer somewhere for years are of great value. I wonder what a challenge it would be to research who Dick was and put a story to the watch. much more interesting that someone used this in day to day living. I think its nicer to have some history and provenance showing that the item actually wa used for what it was intended and stood the test of time .
I agree, it gives it a bit of a mysterious back story.
If the office whip-round turned up the equivalent of $2000 I imagine he was working for a pretty big and successful company, and was probably pretty senior, if not CEO, when he left. That should narrow it down some. Would probably have been a pretty technological company, too, an older middle-aged guy who still appreciates new tech.
That's part of why my dad bought the gold Swiss movement pocket watch he found at a pawn shop - it was dated and personalized, so even though it cost less it was more valuable to him.
Digital clock radio..1971...little number flaps drop every min.......loved it.
I had one from when I was a kid... It died after about 40 years.
like a baseball scoreboard hahahaha
Ahhh, there's nothing better than a bit of Techmoan in the morning. I almost spilled my coffee at 8:38 when he said: "I suppose it's best not to rub a balloon on your head while you are doing it." His humour is amongst TH-cam's finest.
Awesome video, well researched. Love the production effort you put on it. How something that might not be given a second look, turns out to have a very interesting history behind it. Thanks Amigo. Greetings from Mexico.
This video was great, fantastic research done and a good explanation of the history. Keep up the vids! Thanks 😊
Ah! My own first digital watch was a Pulsar, a 13th birthday prezzy from mom and dad, albeit a far cheaper, less classic and, at least by 1982 standards, more modern LCD one. Never gave the brand name much thought, then or later. Most of my contemporaries had fancy Casio things with calculators and such. Mind you … it may still be rattling around in a drawer somewhere. May have to dig it up and take it out for a bit of a nostalgic trip :)
The fact that the watch is so eager to turn off immediately to save battery reminds me of the Apple Watch's similarly aggressive display timeout
It's come full circle. only this time the analog is digital too.
Its amazing how all of your videos are just so interesting and I do actually learn a lot. I mean you take something id most likely pass over if it were in the pawn shop and you make it so interesting with the history and explanation and all. You are one of few channels that really I can recommend to absolutely everyone as your videos are so great. Ive not seen a single video of yours that I regret watching and with all the junk thats on youtube right now that is saying something.
I love your videos. My dad had one of these. I found it in a box after my mother passed away.
Great video.
I remember when I was a kid in the late 70s being given a Star Wars digital watch. No idea what happened to it, but I remember how elite it was having a digital LED watch.
This one? th-cam.com/video/BU-aJqxfXLI/w-d-xo.html
Techmoan LEDs sales really started taking off when the TV series ""Kojak"" was on in the early 70s and he had on a certain model. I remember that years Christmas In the USA everyone wanted one. Actor Telly Salvalas played police lieutenant Theo Kojak in NYC, it was a police drama,Everybody use to watch it, it was #1. Look on TH-cam for old shows. Thanks for the video my Friend.
Kojak was great...."Who loves ya baby?....Book him Crocker!!"
My first digital was a $55-ish clone of that Pulsar. No magnets, though - nearly waterproof buttons.... Besides the cool factor, it was handy to check the time in a dark theater if the wife/girlfriend dragged you to something dull. Mostly stuck with digitals, although almost always LCD, since then.
I once got a digital watch from my boss - he'd purchased a bunch of 'em for about $20 apiece, and I happened to have the programming info for the chip used to build the watch. "Here, Stu. You figure out how to set it, and you can have one. Just set mine, too!" It worked for years....
I also had a low-end Accutron, back in the 70's. College graduation gift: "If you don't graduate, we're taking it back!" I really liked the accuracy (as are many of the LCD and LED watches). Bulky, though, but since I had the cheap one.... [grin].
Always enjoy your videos along with my kids Matt. Many thanks.
Beware the ' Techmoan effect. buy one NOW kids.
It's been a couple hours, already too late.
Too late
The kids watching Teachmoan are 40+.
:)
It's been too late for quite a while. I've been repairing non-working LED watches purchased on ebay for a few years, and even those fetch ridiculous prices.
Would any of you guys give $1000+ more for this?
It's certainly "attractive" but to me attractiveness in these retro vintage ones lies in retro, classy, and their low price. In that order I believe..
What I'm saying is that attractiveness is in Wearing cheap too!
I lusted after one of those in the '70s. Now I wear a Seiko 5 and get the reaction "wow, they can do all that mechanically! Amazing!"
Another excellent video, I'm learning loads from you, keep them going.
just found my forgotten Pulsar P3 which i bought about 7 years ago yesterday in a box in the cellar... now i find this video which also made me check on prices for the P3 ...I`ll open a beer now and celebrate, cheers!
This video has slightly annoyed me. My Dad had one of those in the mid 70;s back when he was telling the courts he could not afford to pay any more maintenance for my sister and I. Cheap sod.
His name was either Dick or he was a dick
Obviously he was telling the truth; He spent it all on the watch.
Dammit, that was gonna be my joke. You beat me to it.
presterjohn71 But look at your pic! You have become everything he was not--a kind and caring father! And his watch deteriorated in value quickly, so he lost doubly on that one!
Yes, Maintenance = child support.
While James Bond has worn Rolex's, his iconic watch of choice was the Omega Seamaster.
Rolex never paid to be used in the Bond movies, unlike Omega and every other watch brand featured over the years.
Thanks for the info! Found a P3 in barn sale the other day and picked it up on a whim, I had no idea it was so unique.
Thanks Buddy..You always make me miss the 'Olden Days' of my youth...
Sir, you really have the knack of presenting obsolete products in a way that makes me really really REALLY want them. Thanks a lot! Keep it coming! 😂😂😂
I've got 16 watches. Mixed bag of digital, mechanical (automatic and hand-wind) and a couple quartz mechanical. I didn't pay more than $300 for any of them and most were purchased new. I love luxury watches but not in my price range or really applicable for my lifestyle anyhow. I'm always on the look out for one of these Pulsars. They're a really cool part of horological history. Thanks, as always! Cheers!
Lovely nostalgic view of 70s wearable tech. Fantastic work.
Totally dig playing under the sheets with your watch..! I can remember turning on the light of my lcd watch and mesmerize by it.. Wish I still had it..a gift from my uncle..
Does anyone know roughly the size of the LED dots? It would be interesting to see if modern SMDs are small enough to replicate it.
"Mr. Bond, we're going to need to talk about your expense accounts."
thank you for the awesome history lesson, what a grate piece!
my uncle had one of these. i don't remember who made it. i should ask him if he still has it, because i thought it was the coolest thing i'd ever seen when i was a kid. thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)
*13:37*
I like it.
Hi I was bought an LCD watch in 1976 for my 21st birthday for £99 which putting it through the inflation calculator gives £691
damn, I bought the casio f91w on my wrist for 20 bucks, which would be even less in USD, let alone adjusting for inflation lol.
Great video, I purchased my P2 stainless steel version for 395.00 back in 73, I still have it and it still works fine! Thanks for the the video! PS, I was 19 and working at McDonald's! PS, I lost the magnet but I use a small pencil eraser sized magnet to set it...
The magnet setting was to help make it waterproof, the buttons on the P3 (Date Command) are sealed with magnets inside them that activate reed switches on the inside.
I have two modern LED watches from Tokyo watch. One with numbers, one is more of a dot math based system. And I've used the last one more then the first. And handing it over to the jewelry store here that does battery changes on watches. They always ask if they should adjust the time for me to. And I always say yes. But every time I get it back with them saying " we had no clue what the display said" :P Thus it's unusual. Thus why I like it. It always caches a few eyes when I use it.
Do you mean Tokyo Flash?
Is that the one they were selling on ThinkGeek a while back?
They had many names over the years. But yeah, It's Tokoy Flash. And I know they have sold a few variants of them on ThinkGeek. But not the two I have.
And now we have pocket computers with always-on O-LED displays showing us the time.
Time set by synchronising with a worldwide telecommunications network.
Don't forget the rise of smart watches, too. My Galaxy watch can make a phone call and send a text, is waterproof, has thousands of different watch themes, and all manner of things. And it's a lot cheaper comparatively to the LED watches in the 70's. Cool stuff.
Another enjoyable trip down memory lane Techmoan! I remember 1 of my school friends getting an early 'Trafalgar' LED watch around 1975 ish, he was the coolest boy at my school & we all yearned to have LED watches, which in time pretty much all my school mates did! however as you say the batteries literally drained down before our eyes & before long all the school kids had LCD watches. Mine was an early 'Ingersol' But my mate still held his LED 'Trafalgar' sacred. I bet he wishes he still had it now ( I know I do)
Some of these time telling items are truly timeless.
Great video, only down side no puppets .
George Stewart needs more childish unfunny puppetry indeed :)
Same story here, need more comedy
:( he needs to bring them back
Indeed - been awhile since we’ve had some of those childish unfunny puppets. I miss them.
That's an upside
2019 hop on that OLED watch flex 😂😂
Thank you for this important
information about this wonderful LED PULSAR WATCH
That note on the back of the watch makes it very special. Nice find
Better Call Saul is set in the early 2000's.
not the entire series. I actually don't noticed the watch when I saw the series, but there were definitely some flashbacks to his "slipping jimmy" times.
Stijn Stevens So?
It's 2018, so why do watches from the 70s exist?
Checkmate, atheists.
UsernameThomaSS So nothing. Just a correction. No ill intents here.
Slipping Jimmy wasn't set in the 1970s though. Saul would've been a kid in that decade, not a grown businessman buying expensive digital watches.
In a few years, Techmoan will review the New old Stock Pebble Time ;)
What an awesome video. Great work. 👍
my interest in watches has stopped when i was 12 when time started to become more strict .
but i like very much your presentations and the scope where are made from
Bought a cheap version in 1976,K-Mart... took it to" war "in Korea,Got wet.......died.
RIP Eli Foust.😥
wait how much is it???
Wow. This a novel. Thanks for your service
You got wet and died. That's so sad.
Did you serve in the demilitarised zone or something? The Korean War ended in 1951 so I'm slightly confused.
I’ve got An old LED calculator.
Fast forward to today and we're looking at a re-release of the Pulsar...Very cool!
I appreciate your sense of humor. That's why i subscribed.
Would be cool if u tracked him/family down and give them it
Dick probably sold it to him or something.
I remember having a six million dolla man led watch and would love to have one again
Loved the video and I
Own quite a few led some of which were in those old adverts ! As my name suggests I’m a massive fan of Retro Watches !!
Keep up the great videos!! - a fan from the USA
is techmoan 1337!!
Build It Americans would say that he's 137. PM.
Aww. No puppets :)
I bloody love this channel👍🏻
Well thats made my mind up, one of those will be mine, just need to decide on p2 or p3. Thanks for the video, very interesting .
My Dad bought one for $40 in the 70’s. I thought that was outrageous. A few years later you could get them in gum ball machines for a quarter.
I'm wearing a LED watch.
It's o OLED watch to be more precise (Xiaomi Mi Band 2)
I think we can say that LED watches are coming back
Eh, sort of. Oled is technically a different technology to led. Think of it as Led V2.
Lovely 70s watch, I'm going to try to get one, love it. Thanks for information
I had a friend who bought a Pulsar watch when they first came out. It was very impressive at the time. He also bought a Pong (first home video game) when it first came out. It was another marvel at the time.
KOJAK wore one!
Telly Savalas was so uber cool with his Pulsar! There actually were some scenes where he would depress the buttons to show the time.
Kojak was my inspiration to buy one. It was very very expensive but I just got to have it :)
"Thanks for watching". I see what you did there.
Today when I got into my big rig I decided to put on an audiobook to pass the time. I felt that a good re-read of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was in order. All those references to digital watches! And now, here we are!
I started collecting Pulsar's ever since one day when I fortuitously noticed what I thought was a Fossil P2 copy on the wrist of a beggar that asked me for $2. It looked pristine, but on closer inspection it was a mint P2 because it had only one button instead of the 2 buttons on the Fossil reissue. I asked him what he wanted for the watch and he said "depends on what you are asking" and I thought that he must be aware of the watch's $500 value and when I timidly offered $50 he could not get it of his wrist fast enough.
Ever since then I have collected pretty much every Pulsar mens model (including a NOS boxed greenie) plus several other interesting LED's and first generation LCD's including a Omega Speedmaster LCD that I scored for $80 at a pawn shop.
Collecting these is relatively cheap and very rewarding on account that they were very groundbreaking for the 3-4 years in the early-mid seventies.
The inscription is kind of depressing. Makes me think Dick either died or hit on hard enough times that he had to sell his retirement watch. Unless he worked at a job long enough to get a nice retirement gift but actually hated the job, which sounds pretty miserable.
Zzyzx Wolfe well if he retired in 1974 he was probably already died in the 90’s or early 2000’s
Digital watches really were _"a pretty neat idea."_
Christopher Noel - Hitchhiker's Guide?
Great reference to better call saul, didn't catch this detail, but fits so well the character. Great show, this channel also
Can you do a review on the remote control calculator watches from casio?
Yep. Still have my silver Texas Instruments LED digital watch from the '70's. For those of us who grew up in that era this was cutting-edge technology. Having been used to analog watches and clocks we found digital readouts new and exciting.
wait, hold up... a Commodore LED watch.. ebay here i come
That commodore watch looks badass. Did you get one?
“He got picked on, because he had LED watch when everyone else had LCD…” And here I sit and watch this video with my beloved 2 button LED watch…
Awesome watch and great video!
omg, I use to sell these when I worked for a well respected High Street jewellers, brilliant video, thanks, customers were constantly bringing them back for battery replacement!!