Watches - another passion of ours, it seems...post your pics!
Jun 6, 2016 at 11:54 PM Post #11,581 of 14,268
  I remember everyone at school envying the first kid to get a digital watch.
 
But you had to press a button to display the time in red LEDs, which actually made it less practical than a traditional analogue watch.

 
"“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”"
 
:D
 
Jun 7, 2016 at 6:46 AM Post #11,582 of 14,268
   
"“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”"
 
:D

Spot on! In fact, the school I was at at the time was in Cambridge in the late Seventies, so I would have been only a mile or two (at most) from where Douglas Adams was typing those very words.
 
Jun 8, 2016 at 12:17 AM Post #11,583 of 14,268
 
   
"“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”"
 
:D

Spot on! In fact, the school I was at at the time was in Cambridge in the late Seventies, so I would have been only a mile or two (at most) from where Douglas Adams was typing those very words.

Ha, that's funny. I do kinda feel bad for Paul Neil Milne Johnstone though, haha.
 
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Jun 13, 2016 at 11:42 AM Post #11,591 of 14,268
*gasp!*
 
The watch of t_eh Future!
 
:wink: Looks great.
 
Jun 13, 2016 at 1:03 PM Post #11,593 of 14,268
I just did an image search for NOMOS Glashutte, and found an image that is rather suitable for this website! 
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Jun 14, 2016 at 12:38 AM Post #11,594 of 14,268

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