Category: Watches

Quirky 70s-style watches that might be a little cheaper than you imagine – the Android Radar and Sonic Radar.

Both are available in a variety of colour schemes, with the Radar (to the left) packing a Miyota 2035 Japanese movement, hours, minutes and seconds across two time zones, a hardened mineral face and a leather strap. The Sonic Radar has the same movement, a display showing hours, minutes and seconds, water resistance to 30m and a stainless steel strap.

You can pick both up online, the Radar selling for $89 (£53), the Sonic Radar retailing for $115 (£69).

Find out more at the Android USA website

A watch that's as retro as it is futuristic – the Alessi Daytimer digital watch by Will Alsop.

Very much the original 70s/80s digital, but this Seiko-backed timepiece uses a very modern 3D-like design for the shell and an equally contemporary OLED screen to offer up the time and date, along with nine graphic displays that show when you don't need the time.

Both the strap and case are made of polyurethane, with an acrylic glass screen, selling in various colours for £79. Check out another shot of the Daytimer over the page.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

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It's one of the most famous watches ever made and will be forever associated with Steve McQueen, but you can now pick up a Tag Heuer Monaco watch that's exclusive to you, using the online Bespoke service at Bamford.

It's still the watch made famous by McQueen in the Le Mans movie, the world's first square-cased chronograph and the first watch with a microrotor for automatic rewinding. But you can now customise just about every detail of this 40-year-old watch online, including every detail on the dial and the strap stitching to suit your own colour tastes. Better still, you can do it all online for free to test all the different colour combinations.

But once you get to the checkout, it's far from free – around £5,000, no matter what you choose.

Find out more at the Bamford website

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Cheapo by name, but hopefully these Cheapo calculator watches will not prove cheap in nature too.

But they will offer you some 80s-themed style for your wrist, with an oversized design, LCD display for all your time essentials and of course, those nice chunky buttons to do that important maths on the go.

Take your pick from various colours, all at just £22.50 each.

Find out more at the ASOS website

It's a modern timepiece, but slap the Vestal Datamat calculator watch on your wrist and it will look every bit like a relic from the 1980s.

Retro colours schemes and some nice retro detailing – even the font used is reminiscent of the A Team! Outside of that you'll find an LCD display with 16-button keypad for doing your maths basics, all houses on a polyurethane band.

Watchismo is selling them in three colour options, yours for $59, which is around £35.

Find out more at the Watchismo website