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.
Not just a name, the Axcent Tank LED watch is built like an armoured vehicle too.
Designed by Daniel Jakobsson, the Tank is also built like a 1970s digital timepiece too, that retro-style LED display peaking out from that chunk of stainless steel on your wrist, available with a natural finish or in gold if you want some added bling, both with a mineral glass screen and water resistance to three metres.
Watchismo sells the Axcent of Scandinavia watch range, with both of the above available for $139 or £84 if you prefer.
It certainly isn't in 'as new' condition, but the Braun DW30 digital watch is certainly a rare and collectable timepiece – and it's on eBay right now.
Designed by hugely influential industrial designer Dieter Rams, along with Dietrich Lubs back in 1978, it really is classic Rams – style, simplicity and functionality, with the smallest detail every bit as important as the largest. All the (fairly basic) functions still work on it and according to the seller, the watch has been professionally cleaned and given new batteries.
Just a shams about the worn condition really – not really bad, but you would ideally hope for better, especially in view of the price. it's on a 'Buy It Now' for £750 or a 'Best Offer' if you want to chance your arm. See below for more images and background detail.
The Omega Speedmaster watch is over 50 years old, but this version celebrates something from 40 years ago – the Moon Landing on 21st July 1969.
Described as 'the first and only watch worn on the moon', this Speedmaster packs a similar, but updated mechanism to the 1960s version, as well as offering a stainless steel case body, a stainless steel bracelet (now with Omega's patented screw and pin system), a medallion featuring an adaptation of Apollo 11’s famous mission patch and on the dial, '02:56 GMT' – the exact time that Neil Armstrong made his “one small step” onto the Moon.
The Apollo 11 'Eagle' mission patch is also stamped on the caseback along with the words 'the first watch worn on the Moon” and a limited edition number (7969 made in keeping with the original date). Price? We've not actually seen a price as yet, but would guess around the £2,000 mark.
We love Furni watches, you may remember we've featured both the Cool Hunting and Raised by Wolves collaborations in the past. And now we have another new one, offering the same 80s styling and the same value for money – the Furni x Mumble digital watch.
An eye-catching timepiece, it offers that 80s styling, along with 'bling' gold buttons, clasp and watch back, stopwatch, alarm, 12/24-hour time, some water resistance and a clear plastic case with a 1-inch 'I am a Contributor' button.
The watch has been made in association with Club Mumble, which features influences of contemporary art, skateboarding and street culture, with a portion of every watch sale going to a campaign that gives skateboards to underprivileged youth across Canada. And that price? Just $24, which is a ridiculously cheap £14.50. See over the page for another image.
Straight out of the 1970s and into 2009, the Omega Ploprof watch is being reissued, albeit for a price as chunky as the timepiece.
It's a large diver's watch, designed in collaboration with legendary sea adventurer Jacques Cousteau and reissued with more or less the same looks as the original (aside from a little bit of added colour). In terms of features, it offers up a Co-Axial Caliber 8500 movement, stainless steel case, water-resistance to 1,200m, a sapphire crystal and bezel (with push-button lock) and what everyone needs on a watch – a shark-proof bracelet.
Look out for it later in the year, priced around £5,000.
Via Watchismo
