I am old enough to remember and have owned several LED watches in the early to mid 1970’s. Unfortunately I was not longsighted enough to keep hold of any of them after their rapid rise was followed by an overnight decline.
These watches were one of the first commercial incarnations of the then new digital LED technology, but when Light Emitting Diodes were superseded by the liquid chronograph display, these watches disappeared – literally in weeks.
The big name (as I remember) in these watches was Pulsar who made a number of stainless steel stylish models. Some had a gun metal finish and the initial red displays were later supplemented with the alternative blue displays. Even Omega brought out an LED watch and anyone without one was seriously out of fashion.
Today the originals of all of these LED watches can fetch considerable sums of money, but there are alternatives for anyone seeking a retro copy.
A company called “Connect” manufacture copies of the most popular “Pulsar” model and other manufacturers do the same with a range of designs that replicate the watch fashions of 1971 to 1978.
If you want one of these watches, then the internet is the place to buy and they start at less than $50 (or £40) and arrive in a presentation box.
Here are a couple of links to sites offering these legacy products although most will be out of stock having just seen the Christmas rush.
They are, http://www.shopwiki.co.uk/detail/q=Retro+LED+Watch+-+Blue/d=Retro+LED+Watch+-+Blue/jumpToFirst=t/ and http://www.led-watch.com/index.htm - enjoy!
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