EAGLE SS, Retro 70s Style LED Watch

[aladdin_sane]

not many modern LED's catch my eye but this one sure has.

http://ledwatchstop.com/store/eagle-ret ... -p-85.html

anyone had any experience with these watches? How good are the modules etc?

Thanks muchly.

[bruce wegmann]

Seems to me, if you knock off the two buttons on the right side, you have a passable approximation to the Pulsar Big Time. If you're going to steal [a design], steal from the best...

[Diginut]

DONT DO IT !

The advert pic is a triumph of clever photography over totally crap product and its definetly not a patch on any Pulsar and most other classic LEDs !

The module is one of those awful flickery display ones, using teeny tiny 7 segment displays, each under acutely curved bubble lens, and can only be viewed if you're looking perpendicularly into the watch. At any other angle its just a bunch of led glow.

I know this because a well meaning gf gave me one as a present (even though the vast bulk of my collection is 1972 through to 1980 and I would not personaly buy one these things) and this was tha nastiest looking watch ever. I sent it back and used the refund more wisely. There were a few 70s modules that used similar displays, but i dont bother with them myself.

My gf wasnt that upset, and made up for it in other ways ..

avoid.

[aladdin_sane]

DONT DO IT !

The advert pic is a triumph of clever photography over totally crap product and its definetly not a patch on any Pulsar and most other classic LEDs !

The module is one of those awful flickery display ones, using teeny tiny 7 segment displays, each under acutely curved bubble lens, and can only be viewed if you're looking perpendicularly into the watch. At any other angle its just a bunch of led glow.

I know this because a well meaning gf gave me one as a present (even though the vast bulk of my collection is 1972 through to 1980 and I would not personaly buy one these things) and this was tha nastiest looking watch ever. I sent it back and used the refund more wisely. There were a few 70s modules that used similar displays, but i dont bother with them myself.

My gf wasnt that upset, and made up for it in other ways ..

avoid.

thanks for the warning. The last time I did "perpendicular", I ended up on pain killers for 2 weeks.

It is a shame though. There seems to be very few good modern LED's around. I would have thought the interest in them would have provoked more good makes than what we currently see.

Take the Pulsar, if I was Seiko, I'd be churning them out again to the original spec but with added better energy consumption, rather than peddling out these tacky LCD backlit affairs they seem to prefer.

[Diginut]

Back in the 70s LED watches were expensive and over engineered made with solid design ideals and thought. Pulsar and one or two other qulaity makes strived to produce low volume very high quality designs.

This only changed when bulk manufacturers jumped on the band wagon and started mass producing them in some orrible far east factories, stamping them out by the million. Pulsar didnt lower the quality ideals and sadly fell by the way side as joe public wanted everything for a dollar.


These days everything seems to be made at the absolute lowest possible costs with the bear minimum of quality and for the greatest profit, even if this does mean an eventual price of a few dollars !

These days - you really do pay for what you actually get, and anyone wanting quality has to look hard and pay more, and often look back to the past hence big prices for old LEDs. EG, the cost difference between a mahindra jeepny and a rolls royce is vast. Both do the same job in getting from A to B with a set of wheels nailed onto a chassis, but one does it with more style, and the other will kill you at the first sign of an accident.

Alot of modern LEDs and fake back lit LCD watches masquerading as LED are really naff. The tokyoflash watches are interesting and some are actually quite nice in a modern kind of way, but even they appear to be running out of ideas.

[aladdin_sane]

Back in the 70s LED watches were expensive and over engineered made with solid design ideals and thought. Pulsar and one or two other qulaity makes strived to produce low volume very high quality designs.

This only changed when bulk manufacturers jumped on the band wagon and started mass producing them in some orrible far east factories, stamping them out by the million. Pulsar didnt lower the quality ideals and sadly fell by the way side as joe public wanted everything for a dollar.


These days everything seems to be made at the absolute lowest possible costs with the bear minimum of quality and for the greatest profit, even if this does mean an eventual price of a few dollars !

These days - you really do pay for what you actually get, and anyone wanting quality has to look hard and pay more, and often look back to the past hence big prices for old LEDs. EG, the cost difference between a mahindra jeepny and a rolls royce is vast. Both do the same job in getting from A to B with a set of wheels nailed onto a chassis, but one does it with more style, and the other will kill you at the first sign of an accident.

Alot of modern LEDs and fake back lit LCD watches masquerading as LED are really naff. The tokyoflash watches are interesting and some are actually quite nice in a modern kind of way, but even they appear to be running out of ideas.

yeah I was thinking the same and plus with there being so many NOS 1970's LED's out there, I guess we're catered for to a degree.

What I see in most of the modern ones are that either the technology behind the looks isn't very good or that the technology is great but the looks are way too out of this world or just plain tacky. It seems a bit too much to ask for someone to make something tasteful which is then backed up with a good module. I'm sure there are a couple of exceptions like the M-1, M-2 but then..........oh yeah didn't Diesil make a nice one once?

I do like the look of the Tokyo Flash Geomesh. That's a very sexy looking watch though I'd have to go back in to further education in order to be bale to tell anyone the time with it.

[LEDWatchStop]

Techie..what is your mailing address?

These watches are a new batch that we produced based on the old Eagle watch. True...they have bubble magnifier over the segment display. This is for two reasons....to enhance the display and to reduce the segment size and thus increase battery life (a clear advantage over first generation LEDs). However....they have new and improved LED display with lower profile magnifier and less angle distortion. This is the exact same module used for the better end of the fossil watches.

We don't sell crap...and we are confident of the quality of case band and display. We do not claim that it is high end LED watch...but for an affordable retro LED watch..they are a great value and highly collectible (we have only produced a limited amount).

I would like to send you one. You may judge for yourself.

Cheers!

Troy S.
www.ledwatchstop.com

[LEDWatchStop]

last post was for diginut.

TS

[holly35]

I would also like one of these ,in particular the pulsar inspired version.its currently being discussed else where on this forum. by myself and others i have heard so much conflicting reports that i am being constantly warned not to buy one.
i am hesitant to try ........shame