Vega 9478 LCD Pendant

It's felt weird today not having anything on my wrist, and even weirder wearing something around my neck.

This watch is a a pendant watch, and so is designed to be worn around your neck. It comes with a gold coloured metal chain which is long enough that it sits in the middle of your chest. The pendant is more or less rectangular, but with curved cut off corners so it is really an octagon.

It was made by the Citizen brand Vega, and the back mentions the maker Adec (which is also a Citizen subsidiary). The Vega line was started by Citizen in around 1980 to market low priced digital watches, but was dropped in the mid/late 80s when Citizen moved to concentrate on the mid range watches instead.

Inside the pendant is a 9478 module which powers a 4 digit LCD display. The display is split over two lines with the top for hours (and a flashing star for seconds), and the bottom for minutes. There are two buttons on the bottom, one is hidden for the time setting, and the other changes the display. The display can cover time, date, and seconds, and when the date is showing, it also shows a line between the two numbers so you can see at a glance which mode is displayed.

The full model number is 9478-391349, and from the serial number, I think it may be from 1981 (although the serial number has one more digit than I was expecting).

Woodstock & Snoopy Pop-up watch by Vega

I'm back wearing a cute kids watch again today, but it's old enough that the kids who had it when it was released would be adults now...

The watch is a yellow block which features the Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock as moulded figures on the front. Japan is quite Snoopy mad, and has large Snoopy Town stores to sell all manner of Snoopy merchandise.

Also on the front is a little white button with a dogs paw print on. This button releases the pop-up module and the LCD display appears out of the top of the watch. The watch module is as normal for a novelty watch with 4 digit display and time, date, or seconds mode. For battery replacement, the module slides out of the side of the pop-up block. The instruction booklet also says you can remove the strap to use it as a clock, and you can also attach a chain to make a pendant.

The watch came in a Vega box and has the manufacturers name of Adec on the back. This means it was made by the Citizen owned Adec brand, and is part of the Vega range (as although there is no mention of Vega on the watch itself, the instruction booklet states it as Vega quartz). The module number is 4971 with a full model number of 4971-393953.

Vega Popeye LCD watch

Today it's another retro LCD, and also a novelty character watch.

This watch is by Vega, which was a line of watches by the ADEC watch company. Adec was owned by Citizen watches, and used Citizen modules.

This watch is one of the Vega Popeye watches (-there were several different types), and is an LCD watch with a 9538 module.

It has a 6 digit time display and will show the date when the button is pressed. The bottom half of the LCD is 9 groups of segments showing Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oyl. There is also a bulb based light.

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon character who initially started in a comic strip Thimble Theater by Elzie Cristler Segar. Popeye was introduced in 1929 (10 years after the Olive Oyl character was invented), and became so popular, the comic was renamed after him.
On the watch, Popeye is shown (painted) sleeping on the bottom of the face. Olive appears on the LCD floating above Popeye (with flapping angel wings) and appears segment by segment (wings first) until she is completely showing (with flashing hearts).

The watch has a full model number of 9538-392311, and a catalogue number of KKR-057.
The back of the watch shows the Adec name along with the model number.