I've talked before about things I realised about my collection through blogging, and today I realised that I have quite a few watches for surfers!
Today's watch is by Body Glove which is a family business started by two brothers in 1953 at Redondo Beach California. They were looking for a way to get protection from the cold water, and came across using neoprene, resulting in the first practical wetsuit. The company has now expanded to cover more elements of water sports, and today's watch is one of those additional products.
The watch is the BGE-2000, and is an LCD watch with digital compass. It has a large round high visibility LCD display with 3 lines of information. The middle line has the largest digits and is the time. Below are the seconds, and above the day and date. Around the outside are 16 blocks that fill and empty clockwise in pairs. When the compass is activated (by holding the mode button), the blocks are used to show where North is (like a compass needle), and the date area shows your compass direction, and heading in degrees. It also has a stopwatch, timer, 4 alarms, and dual time, and there is an el-backlight.
Googling the watch gives only Japanese sites, so this particular version may have been a Japan only model. Don't know when it came out, but I think it will have been from the 2000s or 2010s.
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