The watch that should have gone to space

Does anyone know a guy or gal with a rocket and a time machine? I'm guessing not.

This is my Lucerne Digital Jump Hour. It was a budget watch from the '70s, with most of the price going towards the aesthetics of it as opposed to the actual workings.

These old jump hours have a style unlike any other watch. They just scream "space age." I've never wanted to get crushed by Jupiter's gravity more. I've never wished for death by vacuum until now.

What this watch reminds me most of is old SciFi media. My uncle was about my age in the '70s and he was as much of a nerd as I am. I got that trait from him. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest film of all time. I will not entertain any arguments, because I know I'm right. The '70s was an era where the "retrofuturism" aesthetic was very prevalent, at least my understanding of it. A lot of the SciFi from the 1950s is also "retrofuturism," so I'll try my best to refrain from using the term. I remember a full colour, two-page picture of proposed life on Jupiter in one of his old books. For the life of me, I can't find it, despite taking over fifty of his books when clearing out my grandmother's storeroom.

This is that picture, an artwork by Adolf Schaller. Why did the Moonwatch go to the moon? Specs, probably. Why didn't my Lucerne go to outer space? Specs, probably. It was also a decade late. But, as attractive as the Moonwatch is, I would have loved to have seen this on the wrist of Buzz Aldrin. Hell, I'd settle for a '70s SciFi hero wearing this on the outside of his highly reflective spacesuit covered in lights and transistors.

We need a modern version of this, one without a one-jewel pin-pallet movement. Luch made something similar, although it had a Chinese quartz movement, which is the modern equivalent of a one-jewel pin-pallet movement.

When it gets late and the whole house is asleep, I am plagued by dirty thoughts. At least seventeen jewels. Automatic, maybe even a micro-rotor. A digital display with lumed digits. A stainless steel case. This watch needs to happen. When we defeat the green-skinned Zorvloiks on Mars, I want to see this watch on an astronaut-soldier's wrist as he raises the Earth flag in the red sand.