Another of my boxed watches today, and the second of a series I began to post in July last year.
It is another of the Kamen Rider Transformation Belt watches which were released in 1998 by Japanese toymaker Banpresto. They are modelled on the special belts which the Kamen Rider used to transform into his superhero form. Four different watches were released, and this is the white version of Kamen Rider 1's belt from the first series. The Kamen Rider series (or Masked Rider in the US) was created in 1971 by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, and revolves around a world where terrorists convert victims into mutant cyborgs. Kamen Rider is managed to escape the process before he was brainwashed and fights back against the terrorists.
The watch part is revealed by opening up the watch, and like most novelty watches, it's got a 4-digit LCD display, and can show only time, date, and seconds.
It also states on the box that this is a 'Toru Toru item', and I think they might have been a prize in an arcade.
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