Pulsar P3 - When a Digital Watch cost more than a Rolex

Pulsar P3 - When a Digital Watch cost more than a Rolex - 1970s LEDs

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6 жыл бұрын

Few things have gone from being desirable to dismissed as quickly as the LED watch. In this video there's a brief recap of LED watch history as well as a demo of a Pulsar P3.
Resources
Pulsar
pulsarledtime.com
www.oldpulsars.com
P2 Info www.timetrafficker.com/watches...
P3 Info www.timetrafficker.com/watches...
Lots of pictures of beautiful LED Watches
www.theledwatch.com/watches
Old Magazine Articles from the early 1970s
First Electronic Digital Watch
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Wrist Computer
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New Digitals
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Early LCD watches
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@Sam-lr9oi 6 жыл бұрын

"Wrist Computer Tells Time Without Hands" What an amazing headline.

@Colddirector 6 жыл бұрын

Ironically you need hands to activate the display lol

@Sam-lr9oi 6 жыл бұрын

I was also thinking that without hands, are they even still wrists? Woah, dude

@52Ford 5 жыл бұрын

Now you just have to ask your smart watch and it will literally tell you what the time is...

@NickBailuc 4 жыл бұрын

@@Colddirector i think the no hands means without the minute and hour hand

@Colddirector 4 жыл бұрын

Nick r/wooosh

@rogerking7258 4 жыл бұрын

Boy, you've hit the nail right on the head. In 1975, for my 18th birthday, my parents said they would buy me a Rolex. But I said that I'd rather have one of the new fangled quartz watches (a Seiko with an analogue face) which was the same price. Six years later when it packed up I took it in for repair, but the shop said it wasn't worth it because the could sell me a similar new watch for £30. We really didn't realise in the 1970s that electronics were about to drop in price so drastically. I remember my parents buying a Grundig transistor radio and it cost a week's wages. Can't help wondering what the Rolex would be worth now.

@bargainboondocker3420 6 жыл бұрын

I can't understand why it is that when someone retires they get a nice watch. For the first time in their life they don't care what time it is and NOW you give them a nice watch. Shouldn't they get that when they start the job? lol

@liquidfabi 6 жыл бұрын

I dont think he sold it himself, he's probably dead for a while if he retired in the 70s

@RoadStuffUK 6 жыл бұрын

They should get a nice pair of slippers.

@nullset2 6 жыл бұрын

that read like a joke right out of Seinfeld

@GuitarMastr3000LP 6 жыл бұрын

Watches are just Nice!

@duffman18 6 жыл бұрын

Bargain Boondocker Watches are more jewelery or fashion accessories than things specifically to tell the time, as you could always get cheaper watches that did the same thing. For a man to receive it as a gift it might be the most expensive accessory they have and potentially a family heirloom eventually. It's like when certain sports or universities or whatever give you a special ring, or when someone gives you nice cufflinks. They either have no purpose or there are cheaper things that do the same job, but that's not the point. It's function is secondary.

@fabiosemino2214 6 жыл бұрын

The team went very far with waterproofing, the buttons aren't connected to the module with gaskets, they are actually cobalt magnets activating reed switches.

@borayurt66 5 жыл бұрын

That is a very good piece on information that got lost among the "dick" jokes...

@drumsmoker731 4 жыл бұрын

👍👌

@ctrlaltcreate3827 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason this comment made my day

@novakane8722 4 жыл бұрын

9:43 he say that.

@Rainaman- 4 жыл бұрын

So the whole thing is magnet operated? Cool

@amyhelie6061 4 жыл бұрын

5:35 he clicked on playboy. Lmao

@clinteastwood657 4 жыл бұрын

Keen eye there mate.

@villeda7534 4 жыл бұрын

😏😏

@clinteastwood657 4 жыл бұрын

@DF AMO Look, the playboy link is purple @ 5:35. That means the link has been clicked before boy. As men, we should always think sexual punk.

@lexluthor2988 4 жыл бұрын

Good eye

@jezusmylord 4 жыл бұрын

well it is a good magazine with good interviews and articles.

@theprogressiveatheist7024 6 жыл бұрын

So if Dick retired in 1974 at the age of 65 he'd be 109 years old in 2018. RIP, Dick.

@Heidegaff 6 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. He surely was a really impressive Dick.

@testytest3083 5 жыл бұрын

and its either his wife or kids sold the watch

@user-jx2xc9ex8f 5 жыл бұрын

It's the first time i heard about this guy Dick but he was a Damn good man he fought in Vietnam and he will be missed

@DownassMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Why

@garminbozia 5 жыл бұрын

@@user-jx2xc9ex8f he was kind of a dick and fought for the wrong side the whole time

@45sguy68 6 жыл бұрын

70's comedian Gallagher used to have a joke that went "Is it bad taste to give a digital watch to a one-armed man?" This only makes sense if you realize about the button-push for display.

@dr666demento 6 жыл бұрын

In the first or second season of Saturday Night Live they had a fake commercial for an LED watch. It had four buttons, two on each side. The joke was all four had to be pressed to display the time, three could be done by the wearer but the fourth had to have someone _else_ press it. At the end the voiceover said: ''The Whizbang... Like asking a stranger for the time''.

@lordmikethegreat 6 жыл бұрын

The author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, made a lot of digital watch jokes. Form Wikipedia: Earth's population are described in the first novel as "so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." When Arthur Dent temporarily loses his left arm as a consequence of the Infinite Improbability Drive, he panics upon realizing he can no longer operate his digital watch. Hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings built the supercomputer Deep Thought in part to comprehend why people spend so much of their lives wearing digital watches. There is video of him discussing it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpabmLiZss--ZGg.html

@OtakuUnitedStudio 5 жыл бұрын

You also need two hands to SET the time.

@ramseysaiymeh3377 4 жыл бұрын

And the award for dude who likes the worst comedy ever goes to

@supersexyspacemonkey1977 4 жыл бұрын

70s, 80s, and 90s comedian.

@SSmith-fm9kg 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, well done! When the P2 came out in 1973, it cost more than I was making in a month, in the USAF. I was dazzled with the introduction of the Hamilton LED, it was so cool. Last year I saw an eBay ad featuring a P2, and thought DAMN, I can afford one now! I have a P2 Tiffany & Co. that I worked on and got running, and a P3 gold filled. In the late 70s, I bought a Compuchron for about $12, just so I could have an LED watch, but it and all others had the LED bar segments. Now, with my P2, I check the time often, just to see the LED dot segments. And to think...it only took me 45 years to get a Pulsar. Next, I'm looking for a 1974 white Corvette coupe with saddle interior. Hmmm, I've waited for that for 45 years, too...

@justicewarrior9187 4 жыл бұрын

That first Hamilton Pulsar is a design masterpiece even for today's age!! Timeless design

@sshep86 6 жыл бұрын

Plot twist, the guy's name wasn't 'Dick'. Turns out his colleagues didn't really like him.

@ausintune9014 5 жыл бұрын

why dont trhey jsut use richard. It's alot better then having "DICK" on your watch

@nickm5419 5 жыл бұрын

Dick=Detective.

@Troph2 5 жыл бұрын

James, i think it was a joke....Dumbass #woosh

@davidsiler5505 5 жыл бұрын

LOL

@LIFE-dc5tn 5 жыл бұрын

R/wooooooooosh

@Wanking_wanker 4 жыл бұрын

“I don’t like expensive watches” **checks eBay** “$1000-10,000” Ah, cheap

@misterman1371 4 жыл бұрын

1000 isnt a lot for a watch

@Wanking_wanker 4 жыл бұрын

Max Tactical bruh, we are all not rich

@misterman1371 4 жыл бұрын

@@Wanking_wanker has nothing to do with being rich. Because someone can't afford a $15 Casio, doesn't make it expensive.

@Wanking_wanker 4 жыл бұрын

Max Tactical you can find luxury watches for $500 and $1000 is cheap for this watch, it’s a expensive watch

@misterman1371 4 жыл бұрын

@@Wanking_wanker $500 is not a luxury watch lol

@psycloneranger2279 4 жыл бұрын

"dont rub a baloon on your head while youre doing it " lol

@eddiealston1233 5 жыл бұрын

We enjoyed your 1970's LED Wristwatch Video. My wife Sherry, and I were most pleasantly surprised that you chose to include my custom-adjusted opening Wrench and my Batteries with homemade Spacers,(the good set !!). Great Video. Best Wishes, Eddie & Sherry Alston, England UK.

@viriatvsoflvsitania5422 6 жыл бұрын

Dick was a nice chap apparently. To the point of receiving a 2 grand watch as a gift from his mates :)

@duffman18 6 жыл бұрын

Viriatvs of Lvsitania The way it was phrased makes it sound more like he was a partner in a lawyer firm, rather than just mates

@JimGroome 6 жыл бұрын

That magnet system to set the time/date is absolutely genius

@save9624 6 жыл бұрын

I never thought that LED or LCD watches had ever been luxury items! When I was a kid in the 80'/90' you can find them as gift in the washing machine detergent paks.

@allieboy181 5 жыл бұрын

Save yeah cheap ones

@gordonlawrence4749 6 жыл бұрын

A note on static discharge and electronics. Back in the 70's the die geometry was way larger (20 micron) compared to today (0.2 micron or sometimes smaller) so from that standpoint they were less sensitive. However the static protection circuitry on the chip pins amounted to - - - bugger all. Nothing what so ever - dilly squat - zip - nada and nothing. These days even CMOS (which used to blow up if you even thought about static electricity in the same room in the 70's) has built in Shottky's and all sorts that mean you stand a fair chance of the chip working if you poke it after shuffling across a nylon carpet then attach yourself to a van de graff generator for half an hour. Some of the MIL-STD human body models are in effect 2000V off about 30pF. That is a hell of a poke to something that makes a pin prick look like the marianis trench.

@Hisham23633 5 жыл бұрын

You should be working for the top secret department in the federal government.

@TRAMP-oline 2 жыл бұрын

That size of a .2 microns die shrink isn't correct anymore. CPUs are about to enter the Angstrom era, and they're currently around 20 to 8 NM. So add a 0 to his statement and he's closer, but right now commercial CPUs are about 180 nanometers smaller than .2 microns.

@edgarlee2802 6 жыл бұрын

I remember watching an episode of Happy Days with my family back in the mid seventies. I commented to my dad that Potsie (one of the characters) was wearing a digital watch. My dad took this as a hint that I wanted one for Christmas. I said I was pointing out the fact that they didn't have watches like that back in the fifties. I still got my first digital watch that Christmas though!

@seanmaxwell3319 5 жыл бұрын

Edgar Lee You should’ve just told him! Less risky lol

@volvo09 6 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I had a LED watch that someone gave me with no band (in the late 80's) and I loved the display with all the teenie led dots.... So I hooked it up to 2 taped together "D" cell batteries and rigged the screen to stay lit somehow. It looked like a bomb and was no longer a watch... But I loved the display and it was my bed clock. I slept with it for quite a while.

@crimson7151 5 жыл бұрын

Wow nice

@HANSIHANZEN 4 жыл бұрын

That’s a neat story! I’m sure it was kool to see it when you woke up in the middle of the night.

@HoennLink 4 жыл бұрын

Try wearing that to school now...

@ctrlaltcreate3827 4 жыл бұрын

You just inspired an art piece I just want you to know that

@Shadow77999 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@LMacNeill 6 жыл бұрын

Christmas of ‘78, my parents bought me a Texas Instrument LED watch. Very 1970s-looking with a silver stretch-band, black edges around the sides of the watch, a silver bezel, and black-looking display area (until you press the button and the LED lights up, of course). Looked like something a Star Wars StormTrooper would wear, which of course my 8-year-old self found fascinating at the time. LOL

@eachandeverything9932 6 жыл бұрын

I remember 1 Xmas back in the very early 190s. My mom & dad got me a credit card sized, musical Casio calculator. It was so awesome.

@raksh9 5 жыл бұрын

LMacNeill - Do you still have that watch?

@anilrehmatullah7906 5 жыл бұрын

u made it sound cool i want one

@VolkswagenNut1969 5 жыл бұрын

LMacNeill I think I got that same watch in Christmas of 1978 when I was also 8 years old. Funny to still remember it in such detail today. It really was a cool thing at the time. :)

@MrJorgito89 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't get a watch, I got a pen with digital clock on it! It was already early 80's , so I guess it was not that expenses, but for a kid like me, it was priceless...I was 11 in '81, but I do remember my father wearing a watch with red led displays...

@Bignewshound60 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this. It was a real trip back into my childhood in the early 70s. I remember Ford having a pulsar but most of all Telly Savalas as Kojak has one. I saved up to get one from watches of Switzerland but could only raise 75 quid. The sales guy told me LED would never last as LCD could be seen in the sunshine. But then he told me an analogue quartz was the future. I bought a seiko SQ. loved it. Wore it for ten years until I forked out for my first Rolex Datejust. This was at the time Rolex was still making the vile oyster quartz. I still have my Datejust 40 years on. It was the start of my collection. I do remember pages of newspaper ads for LED watches. All for about 15 quid. This would have been in the mid 70s. We all had them. Texas Instruments did one. The seiko...? I gave to a friend who emigrated to New Zealand. He wore it until it 2011 when it vanished in the earthquake. Anyway. Thanks for the video. It brought back many memories.

@electropunk42 6 жыл бұрын

"This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. .... And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches." Douglas Adams

@steven3379 5 жыл бұрын

electropunk42 great book by the way!

@TheOldAmishMan 4 жыл бұрын

Which book?

@eggo5643 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOldAmishMan Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy!

@nbhelenatashnbex5736 4 жыл бұрын

Still, a pretty neat idea

@KhoaNguyen-rk9dz 4 жыл бұрын

LOL in the 21st century digital watches are for peasants :)

@paulnash9851 6 жыл бұрын

I love Techmoan. I hope he never retires, I mean, what could you buy him ???

@Redskies453 4 жыл бұрын

How about an eReader comprised entirely of nixie tubes?

@harrylane4 4 жыл бұрын

@@Redskies453 he's probably got one already, let's be honest

@londonroulette 4 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I’ve had in my memory from school around 1981/82 a kid who got a digital watch with the red display and he pressed it and I went ‘wow’ to this day I want to buy one

@Jerrycourtney 4 жыл бұрын

It’s 10:45 PM. I have to be awake at *4:00 AM.* I just watched a 15/min video on some obscure retro watch _for no apparent reason._

@Fabformcatering 4 жыл бұрын

I’m convinced it’s a form of mind control.....but in a good way.

@elifoust7664 4 жыл бұрын

Digital clock radio..1971...little number flaps drop every min.......loved it.

@VirtualLunacy 4 жыл бұрын

I had one from when I was a kid... It died after about 40 years.

@fidelcatsro6948 4 жыл бұрын

like a baseball scoreboard hahahaha

@Caledon91 6 жыл бұрын

While I assume most people would devalue the watch for having the personalized engravings but to me that's what makes it more special. It's not a pristine museum piece, it was someone's personal watch with a history. Honestly I'm surprised Dick didn't consider passing the old watch down to a son or grandson. I have a lot of old possessions (mostly tools and tech) from my grandparents not just because I love old tech but because in a way having all these old things is kinda like a memorial to them.

@FiXato 6 жыл бұрын

Chances are it was one of his descendents who actually sold it, as it's unlikely he'd still be alive today if he'd retired in the seventies.

@seanregan730 6 жыл бұрын

I totally agree its strange how pristine examples that may have been shut in there case in a drawer somewhere for years are of great value. I wonder what a challenge it would be to research who Dick was and put a story to the watch. much more interesting that someone used this in day to day living. I think its nicer to have some history and provenance showing that the item actually wa used for what it was intended and stood the test of time .

@mgscheue 6 жыл бұрын

I agree, it gives it a bit of a mysterious back story.

@michaelmartin9022 6 жыл бұрын

If the office whip-round turned up the equivalent of $2000 I imagine he was working for a pretty big and successful company, and was probably pretty senior, if not CEO, when he left. That should narrow it down some. Would probably have been a pretty technological company, too, an older middle-aged guy who still appreciates new tech.

@OtakuUnitedStudio 5 жыл бұрын

That's part of why my dad bought the gold Swiss movement pocket watch he found at a pawn shop - it was dated and personalized, so even though it cost less it was more valuable to him.

@jon-paulfilkins7820 6 жыл бұрын

For people confused why Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy made references to "people who thought digital watches are a really neat idea". This is the era Douglas Adams was writing the first book. And it got published just as the back lash was starting to happen, which made the reference twice as funny.

@thomasschoemehl7403 5 жыл бұрын

Jon-Paul Filkins Ok, now I finally understand his beef with digital watches, which i have always thought were a pretty neat idea.

@OtakuUnitedStudio 5 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the early 90's digital watches we're being very heavily marketed as trendy and cutting edge. Yet you could get a cheap one for about five bucks. Granted that's like 10 bucks today. Still, backlit LCD watches we're treated as the thing that would make you the talk of the play ground. I read the Hitchhiker's Guide series for the first time at around the age of 10 when super bright blue backlights were new and I STILL thought that joke was on point.

@bobdole4694 4 жыл бұрын

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Everyone I knew wanted a Timex of some description with Indiglo. To be fair; it was a fairly decent backlighting system at a time when most were lacklusture.

@OtakuUnitedStudio 4 жыл бұрын

@@bobdole4694 most of the "backlights" on watches before Indiglo were tiny, impotent LEDs that were neither bright not well positioned. Indiglo was like the first actual backlight.

@hsas2047 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, there's nothing better than a bit of Techmoan in the morning. I almost spilled my coffee at 8:38 when he said: "I suppose it's best not to rub a balloon on your head while you are doing it." His humour is amongst KZfaq's finest.

@inshadowz 6 жыл бұрын

Ah! My own first digital watch was a Pulsar, a 13th birthday prezzy from mom and dad, albeit a far cheaper, less classic and, at least by 1982 standards, more modern LCD one. Never gave the brand name much thought, then or later. Most of my contemporaries had fancy Casio things with calculators and such. Mind you … it may still be rattling around in a drawer somewhere. May have to dig it up and take it out for a bit of a nostalgic trip :)

@stumulne9542 5 жыл бұрын

My first digital was a $55-ish clone of that Pulsar. No magnets, though - nearly waterproof buttons.... Besides the cool factor, it was handy to check the time in a dark theater if the wife/girlfriend dragged you to something dull. Mostly stuck with digitals, although almost always LCD, since then. I once got a digital watch from my boss - he'd purchased a bunch of 'em for about $20 apiece, and I happened to have the programming info for the chip used to build the watch. "Here, Stu. You figure out how to set it, and you can have one. Just set mine, too!" It worked for years.... I also had a low-end Accutron, back in the 70's. College graduation gift: "If you don't graduate, we're taking it back!" I really liked the accuracy (as are many of the LCD and LED watches). Bulky, though, but since I had the cheap one.... [grin].

@stevetaylor8446 6 жыл бұрын

1977 I had my first Time LED watch...loved it and have been searching for one ever since. Large LED display and easy to see...handy now as I get older and my vision is fading. Great video yet again...keep up the good work

@SuperSmashDolls 6 жыл бұрын

The fact that the watch is so eager to turn off immediately to save battery reminds me of the Apple Watch's similarly aggressive display timeout

@KatSpicert 4 жыл бұрын

It's come full circle. only this time the analog is digital too.

@roderickwhitehead 6 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was a kid in the late 70s being given a Star Wars digital watch. No idea what happened to it, but I remember how elite it was having a digital LED watch.

@pauljones3017 4 жыл бұрын

This one? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLtdlK2i3cy8fH0.html

@dianaramirezjara9659 3 жыл бұрын

Some of these time telling items are truly timeless.

@seb3311 3 жыл бұрын

just found my forgotten Pulsar P3 which i bought about 7 years ago yesterday in a box in the cellar... now i find this video which also made me check on prices for the P3 ...I`ll open a beer now and celebrate, cheers!

@drohegda 6 жыл бұрын

Techmoan LEDs sales really started taking off when the TV series ""Kojak"" was on in the early 70s and he had on a certain model. I remember that years Christmas In the USA everyone wanted one. Actor Telly Salvalas played police lieutenant Theo Kojak in NYC, it was a police drama,Everybody use to watch it, it was #1. Look on KZfaq for old shows. Thanks for the video my Friend.

@mjh5437 3 жыл бұрын

Kojak was great...."Who loves ya baby?....Book him Crocker!!"

@billmyke746 6 жыл бұрын

Beware the ' Techmoan effect. buy one NOW kids.

@CassandraCarter 6 жыл бұрын

It's been a couple hours, already too late.

@volvo09 6 жыл бұрын

Too late

@numbers9to0 6 жыл бұрын

The kids watching Teachmoan are 40+. :)

@wocereW 6 жыл бұрын

It's been too late for quite a while. I've been repairing non-working LED watches purchased on ebay for a few years, and even those fetch ridiculous prices.

@mzaphod64 6 жыл бұрын

Would any of you guys give $1000+ more for this? It's certainly "attractive" but to me attractiveness in these retro vintage ones lies in retro, classy, and their low price. In that order I believe.. What I'm saying is that attractiveness is in Wearing cheap too!

@chopin65 4 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. My dad had one of these. I found it in a box after my mother passed away. Great video.

@alexQw33 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, well researched. Love the production effort you put on it. How something that might not be given a second look, turns out to have a very interesting history behind it. Thanks Amigo. Greetings from Mexico.

@MichaelSteeves 5 жыл бұрын

I lusted after one of those in the '70s. Now I wear a Seiko 5 and get the reaction "wow, they can do all that mechanically! Amazing!"

@Quigsworth1 4 жыл бұрын

While James Bond has worn Rolex's, his iconic watch of choice was the Omega Seamaster.

@jacksonfilm 4 жыл бұрын

Rolex never paid to be used in the Bond movies, unlike Omega and every other watch brand featured over the years.

@gregwolking 6 жыл бұрын

I had a Texas Instruments LED watch when I was in high school (1975-77). That thing ate batteries like you wouldn't believe, even if you *weren't* always mashing the button to light it up. I think they lasted maybe a month or so at most. Biggest problem was that they died *quick* with no warning (no lithium batteries or ultra-low-power CMOS chips back then!) so the only way you knew they were dead was when it just didn't light up. ;)Oh, and yes, the TI watch was so relatively cheap mainly because it only used single-segment LEDs and only had a plastic (not waterproof) case.

@Daderid 4 жыл бұрын

This video was great, fantastic research done and a good explanation of the history. Keep up the vids! Thanks 😊

@pedalcarguy 6 жыл бұрын

Sir, you really have the knack of presenting obsolete products in a way that makes me really really REALLY want them. Thanks a lot! Keep it coming! 😂😂😂

@mortensentim511 6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know roughly the size of the LED dots? It would be interesting to see if modern SMDs are small enough to replicate it.

@steven3379 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, I purchased my P2 stainless steel version for 395.00 back in 73, I still have it and it still works fine! Thanks for the the video! PS, I was 19 and working at McDonald's! PS, I lost the magnet but I use a small pencil eraser sized magnet to set it...

@simonjz05 6 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy your videos along with my kids Matt. Many thanks.

@JohnnyParanoid 6 жыл бұрын

I've got 16 watches. Mixed bag of digital, mechanical (automatic and hand-wind) and a couple quartz mechanical. I didn't pay more than $300 for any of them and most were purchased new. I love luxury watches but not in my price range or really applicable for my lifestyle anyhow. I'm always on the look out for one of these Pulsars. They're a really cool part of horological history. Thanks, as always! Cheers!

@TheSpeedygift 6 жыл бұрын

Hi I was bought an LCD watch in 1976 for my 21st birthday for £99 which putting it through the inflation calculator gives £691

@Colddirector 6 жыл бұрын

damn, I bought the casio f91w on my wrist for 20 bucks, which would be even less in USD, let alone adjusting for inflation lol.

@JoeLinnMN 4 жыл бұрын

I had a friend who bought a Pulsar watch when they first came out. It was very impressive at the time. He also bought a Pong (first home video game) when it first came out. It was another marvel at the time.

@orsoncart4327 6 жыл бұрын

The magnet setting was to help make it waterproof, the buttons on the P3 (Date Command) are sealed with magnets inside them that activate reed switches on the inside.

@LordZarano 4 жыл бұрын

And now we have pocket computers with always-on O-LED displays showing us the time. Time set by synchronising with a worldwide telecommunications network.

@palibakufun 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the rise of smart watches, too. My Galaxy watch can make a phone call and send a text, is waterproof, has thousands of different watch themes, and all manner of things. And it's a lot cheaper comparatively to the LED watches in the 70's. Cool stuff.

@TheRealColBosch 4 жыл бұрын

"Mr. Bond, we're going to need to talk about your expense accounts."

@tweakerman 6 жыл бұрын

Another excellent video, I'm learning loads from you, keep them going.

@stargazer1359 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Buddy..You always make me miss the 'Olden Days' of my youth...

@Balc0ra 6 жыл бұрын

I have two modern LED watches from Tokyo watch. One with numbers, one is more of a dot math based system. And I've used the last one more then the first. And handing it over to the jewelry store here that does battery changes on watches. They always ask if they should adjust the time for me to. And I always say yes. But every time I get it back with them saying " we had no clue what the display said" :P Thus it's unusual. Thus why I like it. It always caches a few eyes when I use it.

@DrewHerrema 6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Tokyo Flash?

@RCAvhstape 6 жыл бұрын

Is that the one they were selling on ThinkGeek a while back?

@Balc0ra 6 жыл бұрын

They had many names over the years. But yeah, It's Tokoy Flash. And I know they have sold a few variants of them on ThinkGeek. But not the two I have.

@georgestewart5879 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, only down side no puppets .

@FiXato 6 жыл бұрын

George Stewart needs more childish unfunny puppetry indeed :)

@totih144 6 жыл бұрын

Same story here, need more comedy

@MrJ0mmy 6 жыл бұрын

:( he needs to bring them back

@LMacNeill 6 жыл бұрын

Indeed - been awhile since we’ve had some of those childish unfunny puppets. I miss them.

@billrowse2266 6 жыл бұрын

That's an upside

@lazycalm41 6 жыл бұрын

Another enjoyable trip down memory lane Techmoan! I remember 1 of my school friends getting an early 'Trafalgar' LED watch around 1975 ish, he was the coolest boy at my school & we all yearned to have LED watches, which in time pretty much all my school mates did! however as you say the batteries literally drained down before our eyes & before long all the school kids had LCD watches. Mine was an early 'Ingersol' But my mate still held his LED 'Trafalgar' sacred. I bet he wishes he still had it now ( I know I do)

@byrn 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Found a P3 in barn sale the other day and picked it up on a whim, I had no idea it was so unique.

@presterjohn71 6 жыл бұрын

This video has slightly annoyed me. My Dad had one of those in the mid 70;s back when he was telling the courts he could not afford to pay any more maintenance for my sister and I. Cheap sod.

@ataru4 6 жыл бұрын

His name was either Dick or he was a dick

@UnitSe7en 6 жыл бұрын

Obviously he was telling the truth; He spent it all on the watch.

@spiff2268 6 жыл бұрын

Dammit, that was gonna be my joke. You beat me to it.

@Leroset 6 жыл бұрын

presterjohn71 But look at your pic! You have become everything he was not--a kind and caring father! And his watch deteriorated in value quickly, so he lost doubly on that one!

@jon-paulfilkins7820 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, Maintenance = child support.

@R33Racer 6 жыл бұрын

*13:37* I like it.

@elfidge1 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely nostalgic view of 70s wearable tech. Fantastic work.

@mattsmith9024 6 жыл бұрын

Today when I got into my big rig I decided to put on an audiobook to pass the time. I felt that a good re-read of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was in order. All those references to digital watches! And now, here we are!

@Stijn081 6 жыл бұрын

Better Call Saul is set in the early 2000's.

@maxmustermann1455 6 жыл бұрын

not the entire series. I actually don't noticed the watch when I saw the series, but there were definitely some flashbacks to his "slipping jimmy" times.

@UsernameThomaSS 6 жыл бұрын

Stijn Stevens So?

@AlTheJuggernaut 6 жыл бұрын

It's 2018, so why do watches from the 70s exist? Checkmate, atheists.

@Stijn081 6 жыл бұрын

UsernameThomaSS So nothing. Just a correction. No ill intents here.

@exiles_dot_tv 6 жыл бұрын

Slipping Jimmy wasn't set in the 1970s though. Saul would've been a kid in that decade, not a grown businessman buying expensive digital watches.

@Magicmushroomboi 4 жыл бұрын

2019 hop on that OLED watch flex 😂😂

@16mmDJ 6 жыл бұрын

That note on the back of the watch makes it very special. Nice find

@IntersexGamer 6 жыл бұрын

Its amazing how all of your videos are just so interesting and I do actually learn a lot. I mean you take something id most likely pass over if it were in the pawn shop and you make it so interesting with the history and explanation and all. You are one of few channels that really I can recommend to absolutely everyone as your videos are so great. Ive not seen a single video of yours that I regret watching and with all the junk thats on youtube right now that is saying something.

@wojciechtechtips1602 6 жыл бұрын

In a few years, Techmoan will review the New old Stock Pebble Time ;)

@elifoust7664 4 жыл бұрын

Bought a cheap version in 1976,K-Mart... took it to" war "in Korea,Got wet.......died.

@g.hanson9636 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Eli Foust.😥

@edmund8954 4 жыл бұрын

wait how much is it???

@virgenfj 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. This a novel. Thanks for your service

@thersten 4 жыл бұрын

You got wet and died. That's so sad.

@Enetso 4 жыл бұрын

Did you serve in the demilitarised zone or something? The Korean War ended in 1951 so I'm slightly confused.

@verycarla67 6 жыл бұрын

my uncle had one of these. i don't remember who made it. i should ask him if he still has it, because i thought it was the coolest thing i'd ever seen when i was a kid. thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

@MrWeAllAreOne 6 жыл бұрын

I am 51 and remember my first led watch,Texas Instruments,with great affection. It honestly felt so high tech back then.

@aremedyproject9569 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve got An old LED calculator.

@royd5154 4 жыл бұрын

Would be cool if u tracked him/family down and give them it

@edmund8954 4 жыл бұрын

Dick probably sold it to him or something.

@ravisriram6746 4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Still have my silver Texas Instruments LED digital watch from the '70's. For those of us who grew up in that era this was cutting-edge technology. Having been used to analog watches and clocks we found digital readouts new and exciting.

@thenexthobby 4 жыл бұрын

Mine was a gold Armitron sometime in the mid-late '70s. A Christmas gift, and my first wristwatch. At first, I kept pressing the button like any kid today that can't peel their eyes away from a smartphone ... to the extent I distinctly remember an adult mentioning it to me at the time. After the battery died a few times it become lost to the sock drawer and beyond. A Timex Easy Reader (or equivalent) replaced it for many years. Never had an LCD until very recently.

@crestasboy 6 жыл бұрын

I remember having a six million dolla man led watch and would love to have one again

@mdproductionslimited700 4 жыл бұрын

My Dad bought one for $40 in the 70’s. I thought that was outrageous. A few years later you could get them in gum ball machines for a quarter.

@manualgeorge4349 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this important information about this wonderful LED PULSAR WATCH

@pascaldorland 3 жыл бұрын

Totally dig playing under the sheets with your watch..! I can remember turning on the light of my lcd watch and mesmerize by it.. Wish I still had it..a gift from my uncle..

@BuildItnow 6 жыл бұрын

is techmoan 1337!!

@MarioManTV 6 жыл бұрын

Build It Americans would say that he's 137. PM.

@macartm 6 жыл бұрын

Aww. No puppets :)

@richardtherrien4696 4 жыл бұрын

I bloody love this channel👍🏻

@solcutta3661 4 жыл бұрын

What a bloody amazing channel.

@lxPhilxl 6 жыл бұрын

"Thanks for watching". I see what you did there.

@duartefilipepereiraneves6933 6 жыл бұрын

I'm wearing a LED watch. It's o OLED watch to be more precise (Xiaomi Mi Band 2) I think we can say that LED watches are coming back

@markky3050 4 жыл бұрын

Eh, sort of. Oled is technically a different technology to led. Think of it as Led V2.

@WraythesPlace 6 жыл бұрын

Your description about being in bed under the sheets looking at your Texas Instruments watch in the 70's caused a flood of memories for me. I used to do the exact same thing back then! I bet we even had the same model TI watch to!

@esa062 6 жыл бұрын

That was an intersting era in the history of timekeeping. It is hard to understand today, what a huge thing digital watch was, and how big improvement LCD was. And then in a few more years it had to be a quartz watch with hands, and now it's mechanical again. I think you are right, LED watches are getting a renaissance. Also, today's smart watches are similar in that they can't show time continuously.

@5argetech56 6 жыл бұрын

KOJAK wore one!

@ottowes 5 жыл бұрын

Telly Savalas was so uber cool with his Pulsar! There actually were some scenes where he would depress the buttons to show the time.

@dromex1 4 жыл бұрын

Kojak was my inspiration to buy one. It was very very expensive but I just got to have it :)

@Christopher-N 6 жыл бұрын

Digital watches really were _"a pretty neat idea."_

@uphilliceskater 6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Noel - Hitchhiker's Guide?

@robstammers7149 4 жыл бұрын

omg, I use to sell these when I worked for a well respected High Street jewellers, brilliant video, thanks, customers were constantly bringing them back for battery replacement!!

@MrShahspice 6 жыл бұрын

End credits sequence is a nice touch.

@87percentsure 6 жыл бұрын

“He got picked on, because he had LED watch when everyone else had LCD…” And here I sit and watch this video with my beloved 2 button LED watch…

@Zizzily 6 жыл бұрын

The inscription is kind of depressing. Makes me think Dick either died or hit on hard enough times that he had to sell his retirement watch. Unless he worked at a job long enough to get a nice retirement gift but actually hated the job, which sounds pretty miserable.

@allieboy181 5 жыл бұрын

Zzyzx Wolfe well if he retired in 1974 he was probably already died in the 90’s or early 2000’s

@xxtriplex95 5 жыл бұрын

thank you for the awesome history lesson, what a grate piece!

@lisocampos8080 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your sense of humor. That's why i subscribed.

@svensubunitnillson1568 4 жыл бұрын

wait, hold up... a Commodore LED watch.. ebay here i come

@thersten 4 жыл бұрын

That commodore watch looks badass. Did you get one?

@MrDorkLard 6 жыл бұрын

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two 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.

@MrToradragon 6 жыл бұрын

Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. Am I right? :D