Yes, mechanical watches with slide-rule bezels made a number of calculations possible, but the Casio calculator watch brought push-button convenience on the wrist, to a far wider watch-wearing public, and made announcing your nerd status not a mark of shame but a badge of honor. 80s Swatch Watch w/ Color Block Face, Red Bezel, Yellow & Green Band 15.00 1 bid 3.75 shipping 5d 5h SWATCH SUPER LEGEND YAMAHA RACER GJ700 FAULTY WATCH ( 1985 RARE COLLECTABLE) 16.69 3 bids 12.24 shipping 2d 5h Vintage 1985 Swatch Watch PINSTRIPE Swiss Unisex Quartz Plastic Originals E127 25. Swatch watch 1999 Ladies Gardening LN129 Designed by Emily Thompson Diameter case 25 mm. "Think of it as a microcomputer on your wrist for handy operation wherever you go," an advertisement suggested. And Casio's calculator watch was the undisputed king, to the point that even today, it's synonymous with this quintessentially '80s design. swatch watch 80's for sale eBay Get the best deals for swatch watch 80's at. One type of watch that would have been unthinkable before the era of the electronic multifunction quartz watch is the calculator watch. The crowds that gathered as salespeople put new Swatch watches out for. The number of complications possible with an electronic watch, on the other hand, is limited only by display technology and the ingenuity of the engineers and programmers who design it. A curious sight surrounded retail watch counters in the 1980s and early 1990s. The perpetual calendar, the chronograph, the moon-phase, and others have innumerable variations, but each type basically does the same thing. For all the complications in mechanical watches, the traditional repertoire is fairly limited.
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