Here's a design that's over 30 years old, but still looks fresh today – the Braun DN 50 Visotronic digital alarm clock by Ludwig Littmann.
This L-shaped alarm clock was designed in 1975 by Littmann under the design directorship of Dieter Rams, offering some style for your bedside table, not to mention a big digital display and and alarm/snooze.
Described as being 'fully functional' and 'in excellent order', it's currently at just £1.20.
Back in 2008, we featured the original issue and now, two years on, the Furni x Raised By Wolves digital watch has been reissued in new colourways.
It's true to the original design, which is very much straight out of the 1980s and now offered in a choice of grey, yellow and green. Plenty of functionality too, including phone book, stopwatch, countdown timer and multiple alarm features, along with the option of hourly chimes, 12/24-hour time, water-resistance and indiglo-style backlight.
Get one while you can, as these tend to sell through quickly – price is just $28.
It looks good – and this Sankyo Digi-Glo digital alarm clock is still a functional item too.
Dating back to the 1970s and out of Japan, the clock has that 'Glo' of a back light to see the time at night and the 'Digi' of the hours, minutes and a continually moving seconds dial. A loud buzz to get you out of bed too and a design and colour that screams the era.
The condition is described as 'great' and the price right now is a very reasonable £7.51.
Timex seems to be doing very well right now producing vintage styles or styles influenced by its archives – like the Timex Core digital watch for example.
It's a typical 80-style watch, with a choice of 'gold' or steel finish, both with 'Indiglo' night light for reading the digital display in the dark, a digital chronograph (measuring up to 1/100 second), a daily alarm, month, day and date feature and water resistance down to 30m.
Suitable for both males and females of all sizes (due to an expansion bracelet), prices start at £24.99.
A design that could only have come out of the 1970s – this Pfaffle alarm clock lamp, which is up for grabs on eBay for not a lot of cash.
According to the seller, the lamp was designed by Knox for Pfaffle, a mix of chocolate brown plastic for the structure and brushed aluminium for the lamp section. Not just a lamp though – this is an alarm clock too.
We must have shown you hundreds of clocks over the years on Retro To Go, both of the digital and analogue variety. Well, the Digital Clock by Chroma Lab combines the look of one with the mechanism of the other.
Look closely at those numerals and you'll realise that they've been painted onto the clock face and it's digital by name only. This contrasts with the quartz mechanism that enables you to actually tell the time.
Like the combination? Each clock is hand-made and costs $59.
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