05:32 PM
might get this for one of my brothers
History of slide-rule wristwatches: "Cory Doctorow:
Watchismo has a great pictorial round-up of the history of slide-rule and protractor wrist-watches. Man, these things are bad-ass.
Link
See also:
Early days of plastic watches
Mechanical 'LED watch' from 1970
History of calculator watches
Steampunk watch
Belt-drive watch
Watch guts of great beauty
All-plastic watch movement from the 70s
Awesome, impractical, expensive watch
(Via Boing Boing.)
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