Today, I'm back on the old kids watches again with an old-school Disney LCD watch.
This one is another mystery watch, as the only search hit is for one sold in 2011, and I've not found a single photo online.
The watch is from the Seiko brand Alba, and was made in 1981 (and the model was still on sale in 1982). There are many discussions about these being 70s watches, but as Alba was only started in 1979, most are 80s at the earliest.
Alba had a collaboration with (copyright holders) Walt Disney Productions where they produced a range of Disney watches including Mickey and Minnie Mouse. This model has a Y758 module, and is a melody alarm watch which uses the Mickey Mouse song as the alarm music. The face has a music theme with Mickey playing the flute for Minnie, and their names written across musical staves at the top. The LCD display follows this theme with the markers for days being musical notes above the 3 1/2 digit time display. The LCD also includes Minnie's face and has her winking and blinking every 1/2 second.
The full model number is Y758-5000, and the watch has a plastic construction. The leather strap (which looks to not be original), also has Mickey's head on the buckle. The watch came in 3 different colours (black, red, and brown), and this is the brown version (however the red and on the face has faded). The catalogue number was WK014R and it was originally sold for 7,800 yen.
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