
Benrus,
That's kinda cool, but how are those 28 pages different from these 28 pages that you can download for free?:
"Solid State Watch":
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3672155.pdf
If it were a nifty poster print or something, then I could certainly imagine paying for it, but it sounds like they just found interesting stuff in the public domain and are printing it out to sell. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that I guess although is does sort of seem to imply that they have the right to it which is bogus. I've noticed the same thing with things like old Accutron repair manuals etc. I guess there are worse ways to make a buck (cough, "Pigeon", cough, cough).
This patent is actually pretty cool reading material (well, at least to the microscopically small minority of folks you're likely to find around here), so I thought I'd post the link to the free PDF. There are all sorts of cool patents available on this site. For example, here's a slightly later Bergey / Hamilton patent:
"Solid State Timepiece with Liquid Crystal Display":
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3701249.pdf
... and here's the (quite a bit later) Bulova sideview case patent:
"Solid State Electronic Watch Assembly":
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4033110.pdf
"Electronic Digital Wristwatch Case":
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D246230.pdf
-abe.