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Thursday, January 4, 2007

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, January 4, 2007 Early days of plastic watches The Watchismo Times has a little roundup of the early years of plastic watches, starting with 1971's Tisson Astrolon. It's amazing what a dose of "Delrin, Polyamide, Polyacette, Hostaform, Polystyrol, Lucite, Acrylic, Perspex and Bakelite" did to the stodgy world of watchmaking. Link See also: Mechanical "LED watch" from 1970 History of calculator watches Steampunk watch Belt-drive watch Watch guts of great beauty All-plastic watch movement from the 70s Awesome, impractical, expensive watch posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:56:10 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: