Eric
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Why Spelling Matters
"Prospex" is a line of Seiko watches. THIS, on the other hand, sounds like what Carrot Top presumably does between the sheets. (Found at https://shop....
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Shoulda-Been Movie Watches: TRON Edition
I posted my blue Armitron Griffy for #wruw yesterday. @Type2Camper wrote that it made him think of "the OG Tron movie." This comment necessitated a qu...
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MJW Knockoff!
Would never have expected to see an AliExpress clomage version of A Perfectly Useless Afternoon, but here we are. There's something almost flattering...
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This is the Detroit Mint Speedy! A thoroughly lovable little mecha-quartz concoction. Build away--I want to see what you come up with! :)
Always seems worried that he's not going to get as much love and/or food as he feels he's entitled to, yes!
Thanks! I think that's part of the enduring popularity. Nostalgia, sure, and value, definitely, but also just the sense of good cheer.
Thanks Ryan! In general, the older I get, the more expensive get my tastes, so it's a special delight when I can score this much delight for $22.88!
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The Red One for Pentecost
You may recall that one of my collecting goals has been to acquire watches in all the liturgical colors. (There are in the neighborhood of seven, depe...
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You know those NWAs that are, like, *double* NWAs?
I wrote a few months ago about my affection for this aluminum-cased Timex field watch with its striking blue acrylic crystal . It hadn't even occurred...
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Get the LED Out
I was born in 1977, at the same moment the brief, bright craze for LED watches was coming to its abrupt end; by the time I was technology-aware, in th...
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The White One for Easter
The last in this round of liturgically-coordinated acquisitions. The color for Easter is white. (Or gold, as @wilfried so stunningly illustrated yeste...
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NWA: The "G" is for "Good Friday"
The ubiquitous GA-1200: as soon as I first saw one, I wanted it. But that was back at the beginning, when I was just looking to buy the $20 Casio Roya...
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Secret Watches?
Have you ever had any? I’m not talking about gifts that you’re waiting to surprise a significant other with. I mean watches you’ve acquired for yourself but that your significant other doesn’t know ab...
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