You can read a bit more about the rare watch here on Retro Thing, but again it is a thing of sheer beauty too. I don’t know too much about it, so it’s not officially on my list but I thought I would mention it alongside the other Sinclair watch. It came as a kit that you had to assemble yourself and the advert said, “It’s simple – anyone who can use a soldering iron can assemble a Black Watch without difficulty.” So… that’s maybe about 5% of the population then.Ĭlive Sinclair (bit of a legend in my eyes) is mostly known for his Spectrum computers and the infamous C5 but his company Sinclair made some very cool gadgets including the Sinclair Pocket TV, Sinclair Calculators and another watch, the Sinclair FM Radio Watch, which was actually designed by my University lecturer Dagfinn Aksnes. I love the leather strap mixed with the sci-fi front. Looks like something out of an Arthur C Clarke novel or a Batman comic or something. Although this was released in the late 70s I’m sure there were some floating around in the early 80s. I was too young to remember this one as it was actually released in 1975, one year before I was born, but I had to include it as it’s so cool and Sinclair is such an 80s company.
#SWATCH WATCH 80S SERIES#
I think there was a whole series of watches in this style but it was the Forever Friends one that she remembered, and in my study of old Argos catalogues I do have to say that Forever Friends does tend to appear a lot in the watch, houseware and jewellery sections. I also just stumbled across this in my research. I never knew these existed and have only found them in my research for this blog post. They were pretty big in the late 80s over here in the UK, but I was never particularly aware of surf watches like this one. I loved all that surf culture like Ocean Pacific t-shirts etc. I have to say it does look pretty damn cool to me. Surf watches were supposedly big in the US and this was Shawn’s personal favourite. I have personally never heard of this one but when Shawn Robare says that something was cool in the 80s you have to add it to the list. Have I missed out any major ones that you loved?Ī lot of the images below are from my extensive Argos catalogue collection. Take a look and see how it compares to your list. Not all the ones listed here are digital but they’re all from around that era. But I’ve always had a particularly big love for 80s digital watches. I’m still stunned that people can make those tiny intricate mechanisms in analogue watches now, let alone over 100 years ago. This post is in response to the Pop Culture League’s Challenge on Listicular Fortitude.
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