Does anyone know anything about the Gillette LED watch

[DaleS]

This seems to be a very unusual LED watch. The back is signed Gillette, the vendor claims it is a wrist flick watch, and that it has a countdown timer and a stopwatch. Did they make LED watches with those features in the seventies?

[DaleS]

Sorry folks, I am having trouble getting the picture onto the site.
Dale

[digibloke]

Yes they did and a fine piece of kit it is too considering what they usually go for. There's some info here...

http://www.ledwatches.net/photo-pages/gillette.htm

[Majestyk]

It's not a wrist flick per-say. You tilt it towards you and the time displays. You can turn the feature on or off.

Jeff

[DaleS]

Hello everyone,
I just received the Gillette watch. Wore it yesterday. The tilt-on feature is amazingly effective. When you tilt your wrist to just the right position and hold it for a second the display comes on. Shaking it or tilting any other way produces no result at all.
Do any of you know what the mechanics is of this very precise tilt switch? It has only been recently that digital levels have become accurate. I wonder what they did in the seventies.
Thanks in advance for your response.
Dale

[retroleds]

Do any of you know what the mechanics is of this very precise tilt switch?
Dale

Dale -yes, that is a nice feature, no shaking of the wrist. It is a simple mercury switch that bypasses the command button, set at 45 degrees to the circuit board, so when you have th wrist at the right spot, the watch shows time for the normal time period, same as the command button. The switch isn't responsive enough to shake twice and get the date. The Birks with this feature ARE sensitive enought that you can - tip once for time, tip back and down again for date, third time for continuous seconds. Drawback is you need to do it a fourth time to shut it off...or it will quickly deplete the batteries. And the Birks has no shut-off feature.

I have pulled those switches from a number of broken modules...not sure what I'll do with them, but they are too neat to trash.

[rewolf]

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I have pulled those switches from a number of broken modules...not sure what I'll do with them, but they are too neat to trash.

Jeff/Majestyk could probably use them - ask him if he hasn't contacted you already