I've blogged a few of the Star Wars LCD character watches, but today is the first fully boxed one.
This model is the Millennium Falcon version, and rather than be a flip top watch like the others, this one is just a moulded design. The head is shaped like the Millennium Falcon with a hole for the LCD display poking through the back of the ship. The strap of the watch features printed pictures of the two pilots Han Solo and Chewbacca along with their names (printed on both sides of a transparent strap).
The Millennium Falcon is a spacecraft from the Star Wars movie series. The ship is a modified YT-1300 light freighter and used for smuggling. Han boasts how fast the ship is bragging it made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs". The original design is inspired by a hamburger with the cockpit being an olive on the side.
The watch is part of a range called WatchIt, and seems to have come from a UK company called Toy Options Limited. It was released in 1997 and is copyright to Lucasfilm. The official licensee is to World Wide Licenses Ltd in Hong Kong who started as a licensing company but now work with digital imaging (and own the Polaroid name). Toy Options Limited doesn't seem to exist anymore, and other companies were started using the same name in 2000.
As with the other Star Wars watches, it uses a simple 4 digit LCD display, with 3 modes (time, date, and seconds), using the 2 buttons.
I have the same watch. Still in the package! Good timing thanks to the new Solo movie
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