I'm working at the opening of a library today so thought that a comic strip watch might be appropriate. The comic also mentions the movies, and as the library shares the same building as a cinema, it makes it especially right.
The watch is a Disney Mickey Mouse comic strip watch which works from one end of the strap, across the face, and down to the other end. The story tells of Mickey going to meet Minnie for a trip to the movies. She is running late, so Mickey let's on that he new that would be true and so told her that he'd said an hour early as he knew that was likely (which is told on the watch face). This backfires, as when Minnie finds she has more time, she uses it to get changes again!
The watch part is a 3 hand dial design by Lorus. Lorus is an company under the Seiko Corporation, and this was one of multiple watches that Lorus made for Disney. It uses a V515 module and has a full model number of V515-6610. On the back it also says Shiojiri Ltd (probably named after the city of Shiojiri in Nagano). Shiojiri Seiko make a range of watch movements and would have been the supplier of the V515. I don't know when the watch is from as there is no serial number, but I'd guess it is from the 80s.
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