Over the years, I've amassed many different watches, and a fair amount of them are robot watches. From these, there are the main known names such as Tokima and Kronoform/Watch-Q, and there are many brands that are variations on the main brands.
Today's watch is one by a company called Quintel. They are a Hong Kong company who were around in the 80s (at least - but some links suggested much earlier instances of their existence).
The watch looks almost identical to the Kronoform watches (which I'll blog somepoint soon), being a rectangular watch which transforms into a robot. The name printed on the front of the watch states Quintel Robot Watch.
The robot head is just rotated round when in watch mode, and to transform it from the watch into the robot, you just fold out the arms and pull down the legs to get the robot. Sliding the hands out of the arms is the last step (assuming you turned around the head at the start. The robot is held onto the strap by two hooks, and squeezing the two buttons at the back releases the watch head. Compared to the Tokima watches, these are more angular, and have hinged legs as well as arms (making them a little more unstable on their feet).
As for the watch part, it is just a standard 4-digit basic LCD display with two buttons. One button switches the display between time, date, and seconds, and the other is for setting the watch. Unfortunately, this one has a damaged module and so won't work anymore :-(
i had one similar watch when i was young. it was black.
ReplyDeleteI just found one like this in a box of old stuff from my childhood. It is slightly different. It says "IMPULSE Robot Watch". It also attaches to the band differently as well.
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