lack of 70s leds?

[Sully008]

I'll usually search "vintage led watch" and it cuts it down to ~240 worldwide. It still shows up with a bunch of new stuff, but it's better than 600.

As for sites other than eBay? Well, there's retroleds.com , plus in the links section of thedigitalwatch.com Ed has a bunch of sites that sell vintage LEDs. Keep in mind that you will probably be paying more for the watch, but it's usually been restored to it's original glory. I've bought 2 Hamilton's from Ed and I'm very happy.

[rewolf]

...rewolf - if you are not looking for LED watches on ebay, may I ask where you are looking for them?

Nowhere else, to tellthe truth. I don't actually collect any more, only look. I tried a few other sites, but never found anything - besides a defective NSC calcualtor watch recently on hood.de.

@Sully008: including "vintage", this rules out about half of the interesting items (at least it did in the past).
@retroleds: I search in watches/jewelry only. Searching "watch" rules out non-english sellers, excluding "dual" probably the "Gemini", and "retro" is dangerous too. It's a difficult matter...

Here's my search string, grown with time:
led -casio -bin* -magnif* -illum* -farbw* -zep* -ecko -loupe -policarbo* -swaro* -wecker -"watch ltd edition" -dakota -dogtag* -schlü* -cw -knife -thermo* -termo* -wanduhr -heart -uhrban* -galaxy -ultrahell -goth -"dog tag" -colori -neck* -identity -fashion -stefani -chronog*
Plus excluded sellers: buy.watch,dailyetrade,watch-your-time,shamankinganna,kong91666,costcocity002,gamspace,need2u,pystan,coolwatches2008
But still 2000 items worldwide...

[bucko170]

Looking on the positive side, lots & lots of watches being listed may mean that one or two originals get overlooked and therefore there is a greater potential to pick up a bargain

The danger with using the filter is that the bargains can also be excluded.

I tend to search on a regular basis which means I can just scroll through the newly listed items.

I think that there are more people selling crap or misrepresenting watches on ebay than there used to be - or am I just more alert to it nowadays?

Other sellers - Agree with Sully008, also brought a couple of nice ones from Peter Wenzig http://www.digitalwatches.de/ENGLISH_INDEX.HTM

[Majestyk]

It's been awhile since I posted here.

I think the biggest reason for the lack of vintage LED's is quite simply the fact that when joesixpack finds an LED watch and goes to ebay to see how much it is worth, he only sees the cheap Chinese shit, with the $0.01 starting price and $1.99 BUY IT NOW price. He then thinks that there is no point to putting it up and that's that. As a result, it's possible people are throwing them away.

If you ask me, the Chinese are shooting themselves in the foot by marketing their own watches...If you call losing money, marketing. No one is going to go to them to have a watch made anymore after this. If they start doing this with other goods then the manufacturing sector is going to be greatly affected there.

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[Sully008]

@Sully008: including "vintage", this rules out about half of the interesting items (at least it did in the past).

Hey rewolf,

You're right, I did a search excluding "vintage" and I got quite a few more hits, including some interesting ones. I'll have to "unrefine" my search from now on. It's funny, but weeding through all the new stuff is fun. It's like finding the proverbial "needle in the haystack".

[rewolf]

It's been awhile since I posted here.
...
If you ask me, the Chinese are shooting themselves in the foot by marketing their own watches......

Hi Jeff, nice to see you again. I was already wondering what happened...

Yes the Chinese are shooting themselves in the foot - not only with watches, but also with their environment (etc.). They are making the same mistakes as the western countries did from the 1950s and 70s - only they do it on a larger scale. Let's hope they learn faster than the others did...

[bucko170]

It's funny, but weeding through all the new stuff is fun. It's like finding the proverbial "needle in the haystack".

For a general browse around I find interesting items with searches for.... 1970s, 70s, vintage digital, vintage lcd, also brand name Pulsar, Compuchron, Mercury etc.

I have also noticed that on ebay.co.uk (but not on ebay.com) searching for L E D brings up different results to a LED search

[Led-Time]

I agree, searching for watches on Ebay just now is a nightmare I usually look no further than two days to go on the auctions.

There’s not the bargains out there either with the pound as week as is it, $1.45 last night from Paypal...

[LEDluvr]

Thanks for the search string suggestions guys.
I also usually cast a wide net and go through the junk to find that 'gold nugget' hiding in the 'mud' of mediocre listings. It's worked pretty well for my LCD watch searches. I've found a few good deals that way.
That's almost as fun as getting the watch!

As for the weak Pound- at least it's still stronger than the USD.

[Planet-LED]

The DHNY 1367 OLED watch has a very nice red display - but impossible to read in daylight, outside.

Ed, that watch looks to be very similar to the Fossil OLED watch that was sold. I believe DKNY is made by Fossil. I own the Fossil OLED, but it is so heavy that it isn't a watch I would wear all day. Is the DKNY a comfortable weight? Other than for collecting purposes, I wouldn't recommend anyone buy the Fossil OLED as a daily wear.

[retroleds]

The DKNY 1367 is FOSSIL inside - and heavy as a boat anchor. I threw the case away - planning a magnificent hybrid. As time permits.

[Planet-LED]

The DKNY 1367 is FOSSIL inside - and heavy as a boat anchor.

Ed,
The quality of the watch is very good to excellant. But the weight-- I just don't get it. Who is their target audience? I tend to think it is young men, but most of them are still tall and lanky. Because I know you-- large boned, bigger and stronger than average, and I'm not small-- if it is way too heavy for us, who did they think could comfortably wear it?

They take what is otherwise a well made watch, and then make a marketing blunder by manufacture it the weight of a boat anchor. Although, the Fossil OLED version does tend to look like a video game on certain settings. Dumb!

[Fin]

[quote="Klippie"]The colon between the hours an minutes flashes once a second...

You see that there Litronix with the flashing colon? Thats very similar to mine that I can't get working! Klippie, is there some special combination of button presses you have to do to get it working after it's been batteryless for a while?

[Led-Time]

There is two setting buttons on my watch and one command button, I think you need to hold in the setting buttons to fully re-set the watch and then set as normal but I'am not 100% sure.

I'd try mine but I don't like playing about with these watches because if you look at them the wrong way they pack in...