Hello All!
Quite a while ago, in my teens, I saw a Synchronar on the hand of one of my father's friends when he came by. I was instantly fascinated by its look. With a mischievous smile, my father's friend challenged me to find out how he could tell time from it; I must say that it took me a while to find out that the time appeared to the side of the watch...not on the red watch face(now I know that as the Lexan cover for the solar panel). I was instantly smitten by this neat watch and wanted to own one some day.
Some time later, I was searching the internet for this in vain thinking it was something made by Texas Instruments(the closest looking thing to it was a LED calculator made by them, in my fathers study).
Rather recently, I stumbled on the facts that it was invented and produced by Mr.Riehl. I wanted to collect a working Synchronar 2100.
I've come to realise that this endeavour is going to be an elusive dream; a fully working, unmodified Synchronar 2100 would indeed be a super rarity and the ones touted on eBay as "fully-working" would turn out to be ones that had the module repaired/replaced/modified,etc. Also, anybody parting with a "working" Synchronar 2100 nowadays would know in his heart that its lifetime is already up by now. Any watch that would be working up to now would be liable to go dead in the very near future, due to its age and the inherent wear-out of the NiCads. Suddenly, investing $1000+ for such a flawed gem sounded unappealing.Then there was this constant maintenance factor of charging up with sunlight,bright lights,etc.
Determined to collect a vintage LED watch, I looked at other options. The Bulova Computron looked neat but again the state of the surviving watches on offer left me cold.
Now I am going the slacker's way and getting my LED watch fix by the Adidas HSD602, a modern-day replica of the Bulova Computron, made by Fossil.
I know the true collectors would surely give me a thumbs down for this choice but I just could not afford to have a fancy paperweight around after spending a grand on it.
Quite a while ago, in my teens, I saw a Synchronar on the hand of one of my father's friends when he came by. I was instantly fascinated by its look. With a mischievous smile, my father's friend challenged me to find out how he could tell time from it; I must say that it took me a while to find out that the time appeared to the side of the watch...not on the red watch face(now I know that as the Lexan cover for the solar panel). I was instantly smitten by this neat watch and wanted to own one some day.
Some time later, I was searching the internet for this in vain thinking it was something made by Texas Instruments(the closest looking thing to it was a LED calculator made by them, in my fathers study).
Rather recently, I stumbled on the facts that it was invented and produced by Mr.Riehl. I wanted to collect a working Synchronar 2100.
I've come to realise that this endeavour is going to be an elusive dream; a fully working, unmodified Synchronar 2100 would indeed be a super rarity and the ones touted on eBay as "fully-working" would turn out to be ones that had the module repaired/replaced/modified,etc. Also, anybody parting with a "working" Synchronar 2100 nowadays would know in his heart that its lifetime is already up by now. Any watch that would be working up to now would be liable to go dead in the very near future, due to its age and the inherent wear-out of the NiCads. Suddenly, investing $1000+ for such a flawed gem sounded unappealing.Then there was this constant maintenance factor of charging up with sunlight,bright lights,etc.
Determined to collect a vintage LED watch, I looked at other options. The Bulova Computron looked neat but again the state of the surviving watches on offer left me cold.
Now I am going the slacker's way and getting my LED watch fix by the Adidas HSD602, a modern-day replica of the Bulova Computron, made by Fossil.
I know the true collectors would surely give me a thumbs down for this choice but I just could not afford to have a fancy paperweight around after spending a grand on it.
Last edited by scytherman on 27 Mar 2014, 09:13, edited 1 time in total.