Digital Watch

[grhaffdd]

First time I saw a digital watch was when a kid in school got one, It was the watch with red LED display that lit up when you touched a contact on the face. That was 1970. Most kids in the playground wanted to see it light up and I think by dinner time the battery was dead. I gather his dad wasn't impressed and wouldn't buy a new battery;-)

[sweep]

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I had one never told the right time and stopped working altogether after a few months but looked cool and it certainly increased my popularity at school.

[Sculpher]

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My first digital watch was a Casio F-8 - I got it for my 10th birthday in 1978. It had one button - a light - I was the first person I knew with any kind of digital watch - the battery lasted 7 years - a lot longer than the strap sadly.

[Richard1978]

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My Dad had a multifunction one LCD one from the late 1970s, which lasted about 10 years. It was very large & heavy, in a brushed steel.

He might still have it tucked away, unless it went in a clearout.

[Wil]

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My first digital watch was the Casio F-100 which I got for Xmas '79. The strap's gone now but I've still got it in my memories box.

Ripley wore one in Alien.

[bakermuk]

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Am I right in thinking that there was a "Six Million Dollar Man" red LED watch circa 1977/8 ? I never had one but I remember kids had them at middle school. We all wanted to be Gemini Man...and they could!

[victorbrunswick]

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If you look very carefully you'll notice that Lorne Greene as Commander Adama from Battlestar Galactica is wearing a Pulsar Wrist Computer, the world's first calculator watch. Somebody must have thought it looked very futuristic that it became part of Cdr. Adama's kit. lol

[I. R. Fincham]

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I had one with a tiny little radio in it. It wasn't well made. The dials fell off after a couple of days. I took it back to Dixons for a replacement. They said that all the other customers had done the same, so they withdrew it from sale.

[Moondog]

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that Pulsar watch is pretty cool, it holds up pretty well today. one watch i remember at school was the one that had a Mario 3 game on it, i remember a girl at school had it and i used to always borrow it off her to play the game lol

[sweep]

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Nowadays most peoples prefers digital watches to wear. There are many popular companies made this sort of digital watches and they all looks completely superb on peoples. I remember pulsar digital watch is looking quite impressive.

Odd i cant think of anyone i know who owns a digital watch. thought they'd gone out of fashion.

[the fox]

"Orbiting at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

- Douglas Adams, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

[Powdered toast man]

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Mine was the Zeon 007 watch that played the Bond theme as the alarm. It went off in assembly once and the headmaster booted me out!

[victorbrunswick]

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My first digital watch was an LED Casio. Those LEDs went through batteries like crazy. Nowadays almost all of my watches are mechanical windup.

[darren]

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i know i had this one for sure.

and the pulsar one as well.

that Pulsar watch is pretty cool, it holds up pretty well today. one watch i remember at school was the one that had a Mario 3 game on it, i remember a girl at school had it and i used to always borrow it off her to play the game lol

[catflap]

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I've always gone for digital - like the timer and stopwatch handy.

Wearing one of these right now:



I do seem to be in a minority though....