Watchismo is giving a free LIP diode watch to a BB reader!
Our pals at Watchismo have launched a new store to highlight their kick-ass line of reproductions of LIP diode watches -- replicas of Roger Tallon's 1973 timepieces that were among the first (and coolest) digital watches made. I bought my LIP back in September and I've been wearing it ever since.
Watchismo has offered to give away a LIP watch to one Boing Boing reader (and to offer a 20 percent discount to BB readers on the entire store, which includes dozens of superb vintage and new watches -- just use the discount code BBWATCHISMO) in a giveaway drawing that's scheduled for the 22nd of December.
I love watches -- my grandfather was a watchmaker and I grew up surrounded by them -- and I discovered Watchismo through a friend's recommendation. Since then, I've bought two watches from the site, and been given two more as gifts, and each one is an absolute treasure: beautiful, functional, and distinctive. There's an early digital that you adjust by rubbing a magnet (hidden in the bracelet) against the back of the case. There's another early digital whose numbers are actually printed in bright orange LED font on hidden cardboard wheels and then reflected on a disguised curved mirror that makes it appear that they are lit from within.
The craftsmanship and aesthetics of Watchismo's stocks really hit the sweet-spot for me: they're gizmos that are meant to last for the ages and be used every day.
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Hmmm - not sure I like the direction that this sort of posting pushes BB. OK - so the watches are cool - but doesn't this sort of smack of "give us enough stuff, and we'll post about it?"
I have always thought - "Make" notwithstanding ;-) that BB was a bastion of independence.
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Don't care... I want one, I'm broke LOL
I'm on this like flies on rotting meat!
gross.
"...replicas of Roger Tallon's 1973 timepieces that were among the first (and coolest) LED digital watches made."
A watch doesn't need a battery to be digital. The 'digital' only refers to the fact that only digits are displayed, rather than a hand pointing at them. They date back hundreds of years and were very common just after WWII in higher end wrist watches.
Yay!
I want an Lip Dark Master - who could resist a name like that?
Okay, is the fact that these are led and not just digital the thing that makes them so special?
Better perhaps than a Nose Brown Master!
Oh, this is so cool! LiP are located in the little town 15km away from me in deep rural France, I didn't know that they had reintroduced this watch. FAB - local success story.
I might add I watched THAT James Bond film again the other night and remember so well as a very young boy, gasping with gadget lust when James Bond pushed the button on his wristwatch and the LEDs lit up!
Is it just me, or does that lower-case "lip" logo looks an awful lot like HP's modern lower-case "hp" logo? Which came first?
Wow, Cory bends over backwards to emphasize how he's a customer of the company and not a shill, and the very first post charges "Sell Out!"
I just see this as an example of a company that Cory likes and wants to see stick around. If BoingBoing were truly for sale, I think we'd see a whole lot more posts on Blackberry phones, Nike sneakers, etc. The editors could probably all buy vacation homes on Maui for what they could charge big corporations if they were willing to sell BoingBoing endorsements to the highest bidder.
I love LED watches...they're great in dark movie theaters.
That's why I bought a 1970's Pulsar copy for $30 at Fossil a couple of years ago. Personally I think mine is better looking...
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So, who won?
I did. It's ridiculous and sweet. I imagine they issued these things to all the concorde pilots. Or so I imagine. Mitch at Watchismo was real gracious about it. http://www.watchismo.com/boingboing.aspx