Category: Other watches
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Zeon Speed Shot game watch
They say all good things come to those who wait. Sometimes you just have to wait a bit longer than you think. That was the case with the Speed Shot watch which I’ve been looking for for more than 10 years, probably closer to 20… I saw a grainy picture of it in a Popular…
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Zeon Space Invaders game watch
The Zeon Space Invaders is a cool clone of the Nelsonic Space Attacker watch (minus the melody) made by Collins Industrial and dropped into cases and badged by a tonne of watch companies in the 1980s. It was the quintessential schoolyard game watch (not that I ever saw one in NZ, but I have it…
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Tiqua Muliti-Sport musical alarm
I don’t come across many watches I’ve never seen before, but this is one of them! The Tiqua Muliti-Sport (check the spelling 😆) has a Modutek module, but is a clone of the ESA/EMM 931.571 module which is a complement for the ESA/EMM 931.771 digital hands module. You can see the various modules here. The…
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Zetron melody watch – Scotland the Brave
Even as a child I thought Scotland the Brave was a stirring anthemic powerhouse of a song. So finding this melody watch with a great melodic version of it was a lucky score! Melody watches rarely display the song they play so it’s always a bit of a crapshoot when you get a watch that…
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Remex Roulette watch
The Remex Roulette watch was one of three Remex game watches that appeared near the beginning of the 1980s. The other two were Matrix and Polaris Attack (I have a Polaris Attack but it has been destroyed by battery leakage and won’t run again – but I’ll keep looking). For a while the Matrix and…
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Orient Space Wars game watch
This is the third of the fabulous Orient game watches that use the same circuitboard but quite different LCD to create unique games. The other two are Pierrot (Clown) and Soccer. There is also a Space Wars 2 and one called Tank or Combat which I’m still looking for. Space Wars appeared on eBay in…
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Zeon Coronation Street melody watch
EVERYONE knows the Coronation Street tv theme – surely, it’s been on the box since 1960 !!! Let that sink in — 63 years on the tv (as of when this post was written) and it’s still the same theme, with some differences, but even those didn’t come until it had spent 50 years on…
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Zeon Rockabilly Time melody watch
Melody watches are great — there’s nothing like an alarm going off playing a tune, rather than a beep-beep-beep noise, while people in earshot try and pick what the familiar tune is they are suddenly hearing. Somewhere between a single melody watch, and one you can program yourself, lies the Selectrophonic four-melody watches, where you…
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Orient Comment Alarm watch 751103-41
Orient, despite being a brand that really only sold to the Japanese Domestic Market back in the 1980s, certainly turned out some well-made and innovative watches. Like this one — the 751103-41 Comment Alarm watch which featured a dot-matrix display, one of the earliest digital watches to do so. It had many of the common…
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Mercury Sea Ranger game watch
This watch was a long time coming – literally! First, it’s taken me ages to find one — several years — at a half-reasonable price. Thanks to Leo for alerting me to this one (on a non-eBay auction site) and bidding/forwarding for me — thanks mate, you rock!! And second, for some reason instead of…
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Shivas Space Raider game watch
This is a rare one — I must have seen only 3 of these in 20 years — the metal-cased version of the Space Raider game. The plastic versions are rare enough — like the Sinitron and the CompuChron — but the metal version is right up there in grail territory. This was a bit…
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RPG Slot Machine game watch
Collecting digital watches is a hobby full of surprises! After nearly 20 years collecting, I figure I’ve seen just about every digital watch produced from the late 70s to mid-80s – and then one I haven’t will come along and remind me I most definitely haven’t… Like this one – the RPG slot machine game…
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Zeon James Bond – For Your Eyes Only melody watch
Roger Moore was my James Bond – he was Bond when I was old enough to start watching the movies and, The Spy Who Loved Me through to A View to a Kill, the debonair (and often safari-suit-wearing) Roger Moore cut a fine figure as the archetypal British spy. While the watches worn by all…
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Orient Soccer game watch
Just like the Pierrot Game watch – this fun timepiece uses the same circuitboard with a different LCD, this time the sports-themed Soccer. Game watches generally are a testament to the talent of designers who are shown a watch LCD with typical time features and are told to go and make something fun with this,…
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Orient Pierrot Game watch
You’ll never see a game watch with the Seiko name on it — but that’s not to say they never made one, just not under the Seiko brand. They did, however, make a surprisingly large number of game watches, under their Alba and Orient brands. One of these was the Pierrot (clown) Game watch which…
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Sanyo World Time calculator watch
Sanyo is one of my favourite digital watch companies of the 1980s – they put some great technology into a budget plastic case and banged out thousands of them for a waiting public. The World Time calculator watch was a Hong Kong special – the circuitboard is labelled C135 – and came out with several…
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Winnie the Pooh
From the earliest windup Mickey Mouse watch, Disney have made a tonne of timepieces and sold them to tourists visiting their theme parks and themed stores around the world. Surprisingly, though, very few of them have been game watches and this, the Winnie the Pooh game watch, might be the only one. That’s not to…
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Cat & Mouse
I’ve seen a few (not many but enough that it isn’t an ultra-rare watch) Juggler watches but had always believed it to be a one-off kind of thing. Picture me surprised then, when a very familiar-looking watch appeared in a bundle of old dead watches on a local auction site. Cue some more investigation and…
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Nelsonic Soccer
Nelsonic made a stack of great game watches in the 1980s — some which you see quite often like Pacman, others you rarely ever see like Simon. Then there is Soccer. This watch had a number of other manufacturer names on it (like Welde) and had a cheaper feel to it than the Pacman/Frogger/Q*Bert watches.…
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Alba Y829 Voice & Game
Alba’s Y829 watch is a JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) game watch with limited or no international release. I say that with some confidence having never seen one with English text on the face, nor one with a different speaking voice other than Japanese. And with that, and having no instructions available anywhere for it; it’s…