Category: Featured
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Casio G-Shock WW-5100C-1
Here’s an early G-Shock that’s getting harder to find — the WW-5100C-1. It’s identical to its rarer sibling, the WW-5100C-9, using the wide-temperature 491 module, but has subtle styling differences. The -1 has a grey and white colour scheme, while the -9 is the gold version. I managed to pick this one up locally which was a…
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Sexum XXX animated watch
The Sexum XXX animated watch, produced by Cheong Koon Co. Ltd. dates from 1981 and is, without doubt, one of the most unique and unusual LCD watches ever. There are a number of features that set it apart from most other LCD watches from the early 1980s, not least of which are the dual LCDs…
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Casio DB-1000
It comes as no surprise that Casio unveiled their flagship superwatch the DB-1000 in 1985 – the same year Back to the Future was released; they obviously had their own flying Delorean to bring back some future technology and present it years before its time! Conspiracy theorists would note that the watch was only sold for…
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Nelsonic Dixie Cannon Alarm
Anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line is going to love this watch…and all you Yankees too! So promised the 1981 Montgomery Ward Christmas Values catalog and the public must have loved them in droves – so much so that they are almost impossible to find 29 years later. While some Nelsonic watches from the early…
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Casio MG-880
The original and still the best – Casio’s MG-880 was released in August 1980 and began a decade of integration of calculators and games for the Casio company and its competitors. Kids lucky enough to have this amazing toy could happily charge their classmates to play, although not having a volume control or mute button…