Category: Other watches

Citizen’s feature-packed analog-digital 8950 is probably the model that has the most varieties (much like Seiko’s H357 or Casio’s AQ-230 ranges – designed at a time when a analog-digital hybrid watch was the way of the future). And there is plenty to like about this too – you get the time in 12/24 format, day/date/month,…

Citizen must have known they were on to a winner with the Ana-Digi-Temp watch, since they made a variety of flavours of it – including the 8980, 8982, 8984, 8986 and 8988 – along with this version, the 8981. Sharing much in common with the 8980, including the temperature sensor on the front glass rather…

Today Orient is a sub-brand of Seiko, along with Pulsar and Alba (and probably others). But in the 1970s and 1980s Orient was a force all of its own and came up with some amazing watches during this time. They were making LCD watches as early as 1976 (some say 1974) and one thing that…

Trafalgar was a prolific watch company in the 1980s and had plenty of Hong Kong modules with their name on the front. They were a UK company as far as I can tell (the Trafalgar name is a bit of a giveaway) and many of their vintage watches can also be seen with Nelsonic (USA)…

Omni’s Dick Tracy watch is the *almost* identical twin to the Bradley Star Wars Musical watch. They are both as rare as each other (although the Star Wars watch is more highly sought-after due to the enormous Star Wars fanbase) and have plenty in common. Both have animated LCDs, both have a main character on…

So many things about Star Wars are iconic, but among the best parts of the saga/series is the theme. And when this watch was released in 1982 it was sure to be a good seller since it included a long version of the theme as it’s musical alarm. It lasts about a minute which is…

For a short time, in the mid to late 1990s, a husband and wife company who designed LCD timepieces for trendy giftshops, were suddenly thrust into the spotlight when a costume designer for Star Trek: The Next Generation happened upon one of these pieces and made it part of Worf the Klingon’s character’s outfit. Since…

One of Timex’s best, and rarest, digital hands ‘Illusion’ watches is this one — fresh from the 1980s! There are no model numbers on this one, and there are very few around — Timex’s other Illusion watches often have another name like Command Bar or Z Cell — but this one has no such title.…

Citizen made a number of amazing multi-function analog-digital watches in the 1980s. Among these, the ana-digi-temp models, the ‘robot’ model, and this – the rare and sought-after 8970 ‘Mickey’ watch. It’s nicknamed the Mickey due to the bezel that sits around the analog dial and two top digital dials which bears a striking resemblance to…

If you’ve ever seen a Pulsar analog/digital watch, there’s a good chance it’s a V041 — this was a popular movement and is in plenty of Pulsar, Alba (and a few Seiko) watches of the late 1980s. Other than the analog display, the watch also features 12/24 hour digital time, day/date/month calendar, daily alarm, hourly…

Melody watches were popular in the 1980s – very popular, which is why Casio made a stack of them, Seiko dipped their toes in the water with one, the A169 Melodica, and just about every watch that came out of Hong Kong at the time had a melody attached too. A company in the USA,…

A fully-working Timex Illusion watch is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold! Some intricate engineering went into these watches — there are three different Illusion models, here’s the other one of mine. They are very thin, and in the case of this one, have no screws at all. The LCD is clipped…

This watch is cool on so many levels (mostly collector levels, but it’s a great-looking watch as well). If you’re a Chicago Bears fan there’s the obvious team tie-in, and I’ve never seen another of these with a different team, but have seen a variety of Chicago Bears watches so they must have been big…