ROTARY DIGITAL WATCH RETRO ADVERT

THE 1ST DIGITAL WATCH ADVERTThe first digital watch, a Pulsar prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data. John Bergey, the head of Hamilton's Pulsar division, said that he was inspired to make a digital timepiece by the then-futuristic digital clock that Hamilton themselves made for the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. On April 4, 1972 the Pulsar was finally ready, made in 18-carat gold and sold for $2,100 at retail. It had a red light-emitting diode (LED) display.

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• ROATRY
• PULSAR
• WATCH
• DIGITAL
• HISTORY

[rodybolands]

She's cute...well.....probably an old trout these days...

[seesnap]

handsome face she aint talking about u askmearsebolandssweebooanyes

[FILTHYFAKE]

wow.. many years ago.. (pos late 60s) a watch maker told my mum that in the future there will be watches like this that would light up and some will have a built in alarm.. my mum looked at him laughed.. now here we are in 2007 and its history..

[seesnap]

crazy..

[seesnap]

would ya

[anyess1]

Is this a new commercial ?...........

[seesnap]

no its old

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[wellbeing100]

i remember when they first come out ,before if you asked someone the time say

2:57 they would say its just gone five to with the old type of watch after the digital watch they would give the precise time 2 :57 its ironic a lot of people have gone back to the analogue strange

[thephilchannel]

I saw this in the quartz watch episode of the secret life of machines.

[killerjunior23]

was this the first ever digital watch? and do u know more about the history of digital clocks?

[scotpens]

To conserve the battery, the digital display only lit up when you pressed a button because those early LEDs used so much power. Today's liquid-crystal displays (LCD's) use much less energy.