What was your first watch?
What was your first ever watch? For me it was this lego clone trooper watch I got when I was in kindergarten. I wore that thing everyday and I don’t remember if I was even able to read it. 😂
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Laird
A 16 year old who loves watches.
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It was an LED digital Star Wars watch. (LCD hadn't been invented yet.) It was before The Empire Strikes Back, so I think it was christmas 1979. (Could have been 1978, but I hadn't seen SW yet then.) The watch itself was blank, it came with Star Wars stickers to give it personality. A sticker would last about a month. Because it was LED, which used a lot of battery, you had to press a button to get it to display the time, which would be there for about 1 second. Like everything I owned, when the battery died my parents refused to get me a new battery, so the watch got thrown out as "broken". (I wish I still had it.)
I later got a Helbros quartz thing with an un-lumed dive bezel (so it was a desk diver). I thought it was long since gone. I recently found it and thought "I used to like this? It's horrible!"
It was an LED digital Star Wars watch. (LCD hadn't been invented yet.) It was before The Empire Strikes Back, so I think it was christmas 1979. (Could have been 1978, but I hadn't seen SW yet then.) The watch itself was blank, it came with Star Wars stickers to give it personality. A sticker would last about a month. Because it was LED, which used a lot of battery, you had to press a button to get it to display the time, which would be there for about 1 second. Like everything I owned, when the battery died my parents refused to get me a new battery, so the watch got thrown out as "broken". (I wish I still had it.)
I later got a Helbros quartz thing with an un-lumed dive bezel (so it was a desk diver). I thought it was long since gone. I recently found it and thought "I used to like this? It's horrible!"
Sounds cool! Was this it?