Thursday 24 October 2013

Alfee & Bose commemorative watch

Keeping up the 90s run today with a watch that has been hard to find out about.

The watch is a special watch that was released "Commemorating the Collaboration between THE ALFEE and Bose Corporation" according to the back. The back has a lot of information showing in the middle "Love All Music, Alfee Bose 1993" and stating that this is an original Alfee/Bose product. It also states that "The ALFEE/BOSE SOUND SYSTEM is a Victory Gained by THE ALFEE and BOSE Corporation".

So following up on this, it seems that there was a speaker/music system released by the high end music equipment manufacturer Bose which was called The Alfee, but this only appears to have been in the far east (and i guess it was from 1993).

The only reference I can find for The Alfee is referring to a Japanese music group founded in the mid 70s. They play various rock styles, being quoted as being prog rock, folk rock, hard rock, and pop rock. The year 1993 saw the release of a special live acoustic album called Confidence, so the sound system release may have been linked.

The watch itself is a 3 hand dial design, but with a very stylised metal case. The watch face is only seen through a smaller window with bars crossing the face. The parts connecting the black leather strap are also designed with a vent design, and the buckle is engraved with Alfee/Bose.

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