Star Wars Stormtrooper LCD watch by WatchIt

Happy Star Wars Day readers, and May the Forth be with you! To celebrate, I'm wearing another of my Star Wars watches.

This watch is another of the Star Wars character watches by WatchIt. The range of watches was released in 1997, which is when the packaging copyright date is, but the watches themselves were copyright 1996. The watches were made in China for the UK company Toy Options Limited, and made under license of World Wide Licences Ltd (the WWL symbol on the back). As these are Star Wars watches, the trademark and copyright are to Lucasfilm.

This particular model is the Stormtrooper design. The watch case is a Stormtrooper helmet, with the lower part of the strap moulded like the front of the Stormtrooper along with a hand and blaster. The top half of the strap is moulded too, but like the back of the Stormtrooper, so it looks right when you fold that part under.

As normal, the watch is a 4 digit LCD display with time, date, and seconds modes.

Star Wars Millennium Falcon LCD Watch by WatchIt

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.