Every autumn, there is an electronic music festival in my town. Today is the pre-party, so I needed a flashy LED for the occasion.
The watch I chose was a D420 module LED watch in the Citizen Independent 1481010 range. I've featured the square leather strap 1481010 that uses the same module, but they also issued a more common rounded version.
The 1481010 range was released in the late 90s and had a large number of interesting designs. More can be found about the range in my overview page (link).
The D420 watches have a matrix of 5x5 small LEDs, which show the time in two ways. The default is an abacus display where the two digits of the hours are the top two rows showing greens for 1 and red for 5, and the bottom two rows for the two minutes digits (orange for one and red for 5). The second mode shows the time in sequential digits with a colon shown between the hours and minutes. After the time is shows, there is a quick animation with the LEDs.
To show the time, you press the large silver button on the front, and if you are still uncertain, the watch sometimes shows an animated arrow pointing at the button.
The model is part of the G.S.D (Graphic Sparkle Display) collection, but does not flicker the same way as the D400 watches. It was released in late 99 or early 00 for 14,000 yen. This particular colour version had disappeared from sale by 2001.
The full model number is D420-S76159, and the catalogue number is IT21-4552H.
The watch I chose was a D420 module LED watch in the Citizen Independent 1481010 range. I've featured the square leather strap 1481010 that uses the same module, but they also issued a more common rounded version.
The 1481010 range was released in the late 90s and had a large number of interesting designs. More can be found about the range in my overview page (link).
The D420 watches have a matrix of 5x5 small LEDs, which show the time in two ways. The default is an abacus display where the two digits of the hours are the top two rows showing greens for 1 and red for 5, and the bottom two rows for the two minutes digits (orange for one and red for 5). The second mode shows the time in sequential digits with a colon shown between the hours and minutes. After the time is shows, there is a quick animation with the LEDs.
To show the time, you press the large silver button on the front, and if you are still uncertain, the watch sometimes shows an animated arrow pointing at the button.
The model is part of the G.S.D (Graphic Sparkle Display) collection, but does not flicker the same way as the D400 watches. It was released in late 99 or early 00 for 14,000 yen. This particular colour version had disappeared from sale by 2001.
The full model number is D420-S76159, and the catalogue number is IT21-4552H.
still also one of my favorites:-)
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