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'70s Jump Hour Watches
I am always amazed at how long it took for Jump Hour ("jumps") watches to make a big push onto the watch scene - despite being first introduced in some crude forms during the early 1800s. The mechanical "digital" had it's only real flurry of popularity right after the electronic readout digital watches, such as LED and LCD, appeared around 1972. The old line manufacturers wanted to compete against the electronic digitals, but they were all tooled up for mechanicals! Bad for them - good for us. .......Digital Article |
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| DEADMAN QUARTZ JUMP HOUR
I don't understand their name, and they don't seem to make much effort at promoting it. These are super inexpensive as jump hours go.... "Modern of the Month" |
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Casio Chronomath
This month I have another contestant in the, " too big to be a watch, small enough to be a personal timepiece" category. I will resist considering it a calculator as it has three distinct timepiece functions - stopwatch in 1/10 second, time & date, alarm. And yes, it has a basic calculator - no memories, just four functions ma'am. |  | | A little narrower yet thicker than a pocket protector, this was way cooler than carrying a slide rule. "Vintage of the Month" |
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Reproduction Pulsar Jeweller's Case Wrench
I currently only own one Pulsar but I want to look after it as best I can. I planned to buy a flat wrench set so that I could change the batteries myself, when I stumbled upon a forum thread that mentioned Bruce Wegmann has on occasion made to order a tool based on the original Pulsar ones designed specifically to open up P2/3’s and TC1/2’s. ...........HANDS ON! |
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Time seemed to stand still :(
I hope that not too many of you were looking for a new edition on September 1st - that was (a) a Holiday weekend here in the States, and (b) I was pretty ill with some kind of flu(influenza). .....From the Editor.
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Your Driver's License Tells It All
A mother is driving a little girl to her friend's house for a play date.
"Mommy," the little girl asks, "how old are you?"
"Honey, you are not supposed to ask a lady her age," the mother replied. "It's not polite."
.....Humor!! Watch Out! |
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