Citizen GlassD Ana-Digi Temp - 8989 module

As I've mentioned before, the Ana-Digi Temp range of watches have been released under many of the lines of Citizen watches. This one is the GlassD variant.

The GlassD line is one of the most elusive of the Citizen lines, with no real information on when it was around, and who the target audience were.

The Ana-Digi Temp watches were the first watches to include a temperature sensor in the watch. As with all of the others, this has two electronic dials, and 3 LCD displays. The A1 dial covers time, and the A2 dial has seconds, alarm, dual time, and chronograph options. The digital displays show the other settings and have time, date + temperature, alarm, dual time, and chronograph functions too.

This GlassD version has a one piece resin case and strap, with the rectangular front of the module in the middle, and the buttons functions engraved into the plastic. The inside of the strap is covered in small raised blobs, which hold the watch in place, but leave you with indents in your wrist (as shown in one of the photos).

This watch also uses the 8989 module as with several of the others I've blogged. The full model number is 8989-S78551.

More information on the Ana-Digi Temp watches can be found on my summary page here

Inside view showing texture on the strap

Indents on my wrist resulting from the strap texture!!

Banpresto Super Robot Wars 10th Anniversary Watch

Super Robot Wars is a tactical role-playing game featuring fighting robots from various anime and manga titles. Known as Super Roboto Taisen in Japan, it included robots from Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Evangelion, and Mobile Suit Gundam.
The series was originally published by Banpresto, who are now part of Namco Bandai.
The various web articles suggest the series started in 1991, however this watch was released for the 10th anniversary, and states Super Robot Wars was "since 1989". The watch was released as a limited edition of 1000 watches.
The mechanism on the watch is a quartz movement powered rotating disc. The hour dial on the outside shows the hours, as well as the half hours, and markers for every 10 minutes. That is good because it is the only dial you can tell the time with! The minute dial features pictures of the heads of various robots from the series, so over the hour, you get to see all of the robots, but unless you memorize which one corresponds to what time, the dial doesn't help!
The watch back shows the Banpresto logo, the series name, and the various copyrights (6 in all, with the only non-Japanese text being Gainax / Project Eva).
The metal strap has a expanding metal clasp, and can be adjusted in size by removing links, but also with an unusual ratchet mechanism to allow additional adjustment.

Star Wars Boba Fett character watch

Another Star Wars watch today, as I was going to see some Star Wars fanatical friends, and this time featuring the Mandalorian warrior and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
The watch is one of a series of character watches released in 1996, which was the year The Phantom Menace (episode one) went into pre-production. The watch head is Boba's helmet, and the strap shows his chest plate, hand, and blaster on the lower half, and his jetpack/rocket launcher and hair on the top half.
The helmet lifts to reveal the time, which is a simple two button LCD module that can show time, date, or seconds.
There is no info about the maker (except it says WWL who may be involved in the manufacture), and all it says on the back is the copyright "Lucasfilm Ltd", WWL, and that it is made in China.

Dual Power Bug Scare watch

This watch is one I thought useful while going out for a walk in case there were bugs about.

The watch has another use as well as showing the time - it has a built-in bug scarer. When the start button is triggered, the scaring is switched on, and the watch emits a very high pitched noise. The noise is of a pitch which is meant to scare away insects such as midges and mosquitoes.

Apart from the bug scare, the watch is a basic LCD, with dual time and alarm. It also has an el-backlight with the same button as the date.

Style-wise, the watch is meant to look like the G-Shock watches. I don't know who the watch is made by, as there are no makers marks at all.

Casio ME-100 Tomato and United Future Organization limited edition

This weekend I'm at a Tomato festival, so I wanted to wear something Tomato themed.

This watch is a Casio ME-100 made for the United Future Organization and features Tomatoes in the design (for reasons I will expand on later).

The United Future Organization formed 1990 production team collaborating with DJs in Japan jazz Latin hip-hop electronica. For one of their works, they worked with a collective of artists, designers, musicians, and writers, called Tomato who work on cross-platform multimedia projects and were founded in 1999. This watch is United Future Organization limited edition from Casio, and was done in collaboration with Simon Taylor from Tomato hence the Tomato link!

The watch is a ME-100 data memory 30 watch. It has dot matrix LCD, in an oval faced case which is offset from the band. Being a data memory watch, one of the modes is a data bank (with 30 slots). Other modes are alarm, stopwatch, and world time.

The tomato theme also follows in the design, with 3 red circles (tomatoes) being visible when the el-backlight is used. The back also states Tomato, and United Future Organization, and has 3 circles engraved too. The last bit of special engraving is on the straps (part number S-695L) clasp, which shows the United Future Organization name, and possibly their logo.

Casio B817 LCD watch

Today is one of the simple classics.
It is a Casio LCD watch with the model number B817, and was released in 1984.
The watch is a very simple LCD type, with no modes or alternative displays. It just shows the time (6 digit display to include seconds), the date (above the seconds), and the day (as a marker along the top of the display). The module powering this simple watch is a 155 module. As there are no modes, the buttons along the side do not protrude, as they are only used for setting the time.
With all of the weird and wonderful watches in my collection, it's actually quite refreshing to wear something so simple and normal for a change!

Citizen Independent G300 with retrograde 24-hr dial

The retrograde watch movement is an interesting concept. Instead of using a continuous dial, the hand moves to the end of the scale, and jumps back to the start.

This watch has a normal 3-hand dial for the time, but also includes a second 24-hr indicator with the jump-back / retrograde action. There is also a date marker above the 12 position in the same font as the hour markers.

All of this is run from a G300 module, and the watch was made in 2008.

The full model number is G300-002783-02, and is part of the Citizen Independent range released in the late 2000s as a line of trendy fashion watches.