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Water watches

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  • 09-07-2005 8:57pm
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    BLITZ_Molloy
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    I have some vague recollection these being popular when I was in primary school in the late 80's. Does anybody remember them? They were wristwatches you poured water into and they would run sort of unreliably for a few hours. And you'd spend the day checking the time with other people to try and keep it in sync.


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    Dr. Dre
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    Aye, I had one of these - it was some kind of Smithwicks promotional watch.
    It was very reliable and ran for days on one refill of water.


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    DonkeyStyle \o/
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    Smithwicks? ... did you try putting beer in it? ;)

    Yeah the 80's were a great time for fad watches... the water watch, the radio watch, the calculator watch, and *gasp* the waterproof watch!
    I remember looking in a shop window at a water watch, in a little plastic tank of water, with bubbles going up through it... peolpe looking at it going "no way, that's gotta be fake" ... ah the late 80's what a magical time!


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    KevIRL
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    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:
    Smithwicks? ... did you try putting beer in it? ;)

    !

    They used to flog the water watches in the pound shop and twas actually on the packagew that they would work with beer


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    Larianne
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    Or those watches you'd snap onto your wrist. Dunno what they were called. Think they stopped making them coz they were harming some kids wrists. I dunno, my cousin had one and I sooo wanted one!! That and those Clarkes magic key shoes! :(


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    Kevin_rc_ie
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    didn't those snap watches come out of cereal boxes or something?


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    Larianne
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    Kevin_rc_ie wrote:
    didn't those snap watches come out of cereal boxes or something?

    Don't think so..well not when I wanted them...so badly! :rolleyes:


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    Kevin_rc_ie
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    i thought you were talking about water proof watches and didn't bother reading any of the posts. How wrong i was! watches fueled on water. How incredible. i want one. right now.


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    Larianne
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    Kevin_rc_ie wrote:
    i thought you were talking about water proof watches and didn't bother reading any of the posts. How wrong i was! watches fueled on water. How incredible. i want one. right now.


    Yeah, I have never heard of these either (prob too busy looking for a snap watch!!) but they sound cool!! I want one, NOW!!


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    Kintarō Hattori
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    I remember I had two of them I bought in the local pound shop. It was semi transparent and the sponges used to soak up the water where yellow and there were 3 or 4 spongses. It was also unusual cause it was angled, the top part was the time and the bottom part (below the angle) had the yellow sponges.
    They were kinda crap but cool. I want one now.


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