"It's me or the Friday chips and milkshake special:" Lambda LCD Quartz review

Yeah. I like this one. It oozes early 80s vibes. I'd imagine a synth player wearing something like this. It could only be more 80s if it was made out of solid gold and came with a powder blue blazer with more shoulder padding than the things that American Football players wear.

It came from a bag sentenced to the dustbin. I pulled it out and shoved a new battery in. One bracelet clean in the ultrasonic cleaner later, and it's looking good.

We're used to quartz LCD watches being packed with more functions than one could ever ask for. My Casio Outgear Fishing Gear, which is ana-digi, comes with a perpetual calendar, chronograph, timer, three alarms, dual time, moon phase and fishing time, which basically tells you when the fish are out in the water. You'd be even more surprised to find out that it actually works. Anyway, this Lambda isn't on that level. Its default screen is the time in hours and minutes. Push the top pusher once and you get the month, which is displayed as a number, so you need to know your twelve months off by heart, and date. Push it again and you have the running seconds. That's it. That's all that there is to it. There's also a backlight, which is one beige LED. You hold down the bottom pusher for that, although you need to press hard to make it consistent. It makes the screen somewhat legible in pitch black darkness, but you have to focus on it and sometimes adjust your viewing angle. I really am struggling to write something more. My reviews in a nutshell are normally an anecdote, some hyperbole, a brief review, a very weird metaphor or simile, and then some more hyperbole. You set the time and date by switching to the respective screens and then pushing this recessed pusher with a small screwdriver, toothpick, or end of a takeaways plastic fork. It makes me feel like I'm adjusting something on the Breitling Premier B25 Datora, which has a similar recessed pusher thingy. I don't know what to call those things, they kind of look like tiny inverted metal nipples.

Lambda is a cool name. It's also the symbol for wavelength, which is really cool and sciencey. It's a letter of the Greek alphabet, so it's also basically an Omega. The bracelet is fine. It's very 80s and somewhat difficult to get on and off if you like to wear your watches tight like I do. It doesn't taper much, if it even tapers at all, so if you wear the watch head on the inside of your wrist (i.e. wear it upside down) it can pass as a bracelet, apart from the clasp now sitting on top of your wrist. It might be an incognito way of tracking another timezone if you want.

That's it. A nice vintage digital watch. Other Lambda models are for sale for dirt cheap across the web. By dirt cheap I mean seven British Pounds. Which is why I'd never sell mine. A meal for one person at the local takeaways place, or a vintage digital watch? This thing has given me more enjoyment than some chips (NAmEng: "fries") and a runny milkshake can.