Two wonderful friends of mine bought me this little beauty for my birthday last August. Bling bling BLING. I wasn't even born when these were released, so why do I feel like I should be wearing a school dress and throwing paper aeroplanes around when I'm wearing it? Aah, the wonderful sensation of Consumer Fetishism. Cool as hell.
Here are some other extremely fandangulous examples of retro time-pieces...
L-R: Old Stock Lanco Direct Time: the Swiss answer to the LED in the mid Seventies (£150); Classic Camif Early 60's Dress Watch (£85)
L-R: Old Stock Gruen LED (£250); 1980's Chromachron Quartz Watch (£235)
L-R: Baschmakofff Direct Time Automatic 1974 (£550); Amida Digitrend Direct Time Steel Watch (£750)
....and the Mac Daddy:
A new, hand made "Nixie Tube" clock.
These were the "digital" display tubes that you used to see when watching the Apollo missions in the 60's. In fact some of these tubes were originally NASA ones! Inside a glass tube, ten filaments are shaped to form the digits 0 - 9 which when lit give off a warm orange / violet glow that can be read from quite a distance...
All images and price references courtesy 70s-watches.com. This guy has way, WAY too many watches. It makes me extremely happy.