Anything that doesn't pop an advert or change my entire content every time I breathe near it or slightly touch it in the wrong way is impressive to me. Modern phones are useful but I miss buttons! Touch screens are a pain in the arse. :)
Now what would be impressive is if they could have fit the entire receiver into the watch. Otherwise this is just an lcd panel strapped to your wrist rather then being built directly onto the tuner.
Wow! Haven't seen one of these since grade school days! This was considered to be high tech that time. Just imagine the technology back in the 80's. It was really amazing having one of these back then.
We were dying to buy this in 90's but we couldn't afford this as school kids I hardly saw one piece from an uncle who came from abroad.You revived a long lost memory thanks for the review !!!
Hey, I have similar feeling like you. I just watched a video of which the guy placed a mega cd into play station1-4 respectively, of course this didn’t work, it costed me 6 minutes.... At least you could see the ghosts and snow flakes ... in this video :)
When I first saw the watch I was like there's no way they could make a TV watch this small back in 82 then he comes out with the box....ahhh now that's 80s
I came here for the same reason! I was 100% ready to label this a hoax as that level of microtechnology was absolutely unachievable then. It's still damn impressive, but the brick it has to plug into to function makes sense.
Yes, but it might be hard to implement on modern devices, i cant imagine my 6,7" phone, with added room for that kind of design, fitting in the pocket, for instance.. but at least it would look sick, i guess.
When this watch was new you would have no problems finding a station. My Dad had a Sharp or Panasonic portable TV from around 1985 or so. It would pickup all stations with no problems. When I was a kid I would actually watch TV on it all the time because I thought the idea of using such a small TV was really cool 😆
VHF & UHF , came right before the cable wire, so getting a signal on this today, may be impossible. You'd have to be connected to a giant building antenna, or atleast be standing close to catch a signal.
I remember in 1983, in the USSR, in the magazine Young Technician, there was a small column about foreign achievements and there I read an article about this watch , but even then I realized that the watch is only a screen or a monitor by today's standards , and in general it was fantastic then !
By the way, the magazine Young Technician was very popular with Soviet schoolchildren . It was even produced abroad !!! There was one article about how a Japanese man subscribed to this magazine and taking a useful idea from it, he opened his own business and became rich - became a millionaire and as a sign of gratitude transferred some of the money to the account of the magazine's editorial office !!! zhurnalko.net/=sam/junyj-tehnik/1983-02--num34
I remember seeing a watch like this on display at Sears when I was a kid. No doubt the price and the fact that the tuner and speakers weren't self contained kept it from being a success. If you had to plug it into a gadget the size of a Walkman to watch TV, then you were better off just buying one of the similarly sized portable TVs of the time
It's easy to see why it wouldn't have been a big money maker, with the screen just being dead space when not hooked up to the transmitter. So freaking cool, I'm glad they took the swing at it.
This watch was featured in the Australian TV Towards 2000. It seemed so futuristic and forward thinking! Amazing to see this watch in such good condition.
This is fantastic and it reminds me of the movie octopussy . It was a great invention in the early 80s . I am really shocked by how advanced Japanese technologies are back then . I never saw it in india cause it's not affordable back then the current scenario might be different . We imagined this kind of tiny devices in our childhood in late 90s and early 2000 but never think about that this kind of device actually existed back then even before we were born . It must work as a chick magnet back then for sure . I really fell for the swag who wore this that time . Really a fantastic device and it reminds me of my childhood days when we are heavily inspired by james bond movies and we like to imagine ourselves acting like bond . I am really pleased with this video .Thanks for this video🙏🇮🇳🙏
@@johnmonk66 they're different categories though, U.S has always been ahead when it comes to science which is what you're talking about. But Japan has always been ahead when it comes to technology.
@@Coco1477 Need technology to get to the moon, so i don't agree. I ain't disrespecting Japan, they made things smaller and cheaper, but they didn't invent it.
Wow the fact that you were able to get any kind of image on the TV was pretty remarkable. Awesome video, thanks for sharing. I remember stuff like this back when I was a kid. It was really incredibly high tech and incredibly expensive back then!!
@@siivel On my country, Argentina 🇦🇷 , still have analog TV transmitions. And I have two portables TV receivers: *Casio Color LCD TV ST 770 *Smallest CRT Tube Portable Panasonic Travelvision TR-1030P Both them still work very well, and the Panasonic is that have the best performance. Beautiful pieces of engineering vintage. And I would like to get the Seiko DXA-001. 🙌🏼✨
One of THE 'cyberpunk' items (also including the UC data series), the few techs that dragged my fascination into that genre/ideas. I remembered this when got featured in magazines when I was younger, it's mind-blowing for an advanced tech debuted 1 year earlier than me. Hence this is why I have the fondness & respect of Seiko watches...
@@johnmonk66 that's cuzz reception is all digital now.... if you could hook this watch up to digital signal it would pick up close to 15 or 20 free channels. Very clear. Be a fun project for someone that knows what they are doing to play with.. The watches are so damn expensive tho is the problem. You can download mobdro on a smartwatch and get 1000 times the channels for free..
I was 12 when I saw this watch on the film Dragnet in '87. I wanted one so badly I found the address of Seiko UK and wrote them a letter asking where i could get one and how much it would cost. They kindly wrote back informing me that the watch was only available in Japan and would never be sold in the UK. And that was that. I still want one but it'd be pretty useless now.
This is fantastic I clearly wouldn't have had the money for this since I was kid when this came out it's so Dick Tracy, with a George Jetson feel but the style of James Bond... Dam I want this thankyou for showing this off
It was futuristic at that time, Now this days we have smart watches can do anything unbelievable how fast technology is growing. This is a museum peace,
Seiko should definately remake this DXA-001 TV-Watch in this exact design. Still with the old-school LCD on top, the two small red LED's, but with modern electronics and a high-PPI OLED screen.
I love stuff like this. I like the design of consumer electronics. Back in the 80s my schoolfriend's dad often travelled to Japan on business. He would return with toys and gadgets that seemed amazing to us. He was first by about a year to have a Sony Walkman and one of those little Casio keyboards with pre loaded beats etc. He also had a lot of those little lcd Nintendo games like Donkey Kong. The thing I envied most was his collection of Tron action figures with glow in dark weapons and his Black Hole robots.
This was super high tech for the 80s. Literally this is the sci fi stuff, and would fit in in a James Bond or Star Trek film. I believe it retailed for about two thousand dollars in 1982, which is way way way above what the average Joe can afford.
I absolutely agree ... even scientific calculators in Casio watches where super high tech back then, let alone: a television in a watch. Its not only the first watch with a television in it, its maybe even the first lcd-television at all! Back then, there were portable televisions but they were crt, and the smallest ones were around the size of a shoebox and needed a lot of batteries, or 12v from the car battery. So yes, having it in a watch.. in 1982 (that was pre-nintendo era... pre-gameboy! ) , was like scifi... People ''maybe could imagine something like this in the 2000s'' but not in 1982. I didnt even heard of this watch, until now.
Interesting relic. I was always fascinated by the idea of pocket TVs ever since seeing one in a Superman comic in the 1960s and when Sinclair brought out his pocket TV about the same time as this I was off to the shops to buy it - cost as much as a full size colour TV - and I remember pulling over in the car to watch the first Space Shuttle launch on the tiny b+w cathode ray tube screen. Still got it somewhere…
This SEIKO Watch-TV is a LEGEND... Good thing we have Netflix now, so we're not burning out butts scanning-out TV receptions/channels for hours just to get a silhouette or shades on the screen...
My uncle gave me one of these that he had bought for himself because he said it was" too much crap to carry around". I used it for over a decade, and it was the most amazing little thing and held a signal better than a set of rabbit ears. I used to watch March Madness on it at school, and I never told anyone about it except for my close friends. I told the teachers the screen was a solar cell. I only had to have it repaired once, in 1998, and the jeweler was so happy to send it in for servicing, he paid for the repair if he could show it off in the display case at the front of the store for a week. Damn.
James Bond had one! Seiko was very innovative in the late 70s and the 80s: First TV watch, first speaking watch, first pulsation metering watch with wristband, worlds most precise watch (5sec/ year!), dive computer...
Думаю в то время на него можно было что-то поймать, сейчас же ТВ уже почти всё цифровое + много помех от современной техники. Часы смотрятся достаточно современно, так как мода на такой дизайн сейчас как раз вернулась👍
Perhaps it has something to do with analog/digital broadcast. In my country, analog broadcast has been terminated. So old generation TV will never work anymore, except if you install digital decoder.
justaman well, that high quality stuff was x10 more expensive in comparison with today’s stuff. You can also get good quality products today in China, but you have to pay more ofc, and we don’t want rhat
Justaman wrote this comment with his chinese smartphone or his chinese computer... Lol In the 60's people used to think that japanese products were crappy... In the 2040's perhaps people will tell : oh it's chinese so it's good... Happily it's not a crappy indian product... With no offence to the indian people.
Its amazing. Love it, Thanks for sharing. On a side note: "I will try to demonstrate the watch" post the whole process of trying to find a channel which could have been edited "Im going to make sure viewers will feel the whole experience of me not finding any since no one uses analog anymore" But to be frank there are some showing slightly around 9:24 Totally realistic and wholesome experience which is awesome. I seriously love it when he said "A Second-hand price Seiko Watch cost almost the same as Apple watch BUT doesn't have the problem of software upgrade and dying battery" 10:17
Looked impressive until I saw the cable and the pocket receiver. Still looks cool and techie but why not put display in receiver so no cables attached to your wrist and see the time more clearly on the watch.
This watch was ahead of his time,even with this massive receiver that you need to carry around was very impressive gadget. It's a clear reminder how technology developed trough years. Now you can put advanced digital tv receiver and decoder with internal antenna on a chip that is not bigger then a tip of a nail. Crazy.
Wow 🤩 what a futuristic technology. I was born in 1987. But I can connect as in my family we have black and white CRT tv till 1998. Comparing CRT to lcd in 1982 it is literally unbelievable.
Já tinha sim. Tanto que a audiência da Globolixo era enorme na época da copa do mundo de 94. TV era um artigo de luxo nos anos 60 e 70. Nos anos 80 esse item era caro mas era mais acessível, assim como são as TVs 4K hoje em dia.
@@AlexanderPR2 Em 94, fui visitar parentes, numa cidade perto de Presidente Prudente. A noite me falaram "vamos todos assistir tv, ponha a blusa porque está frio!!!" A tv, de 20 polegadas, estava num pilar, no meio da praça!!! Havia 100 pessoas ali!!! Ninguém me falou!!! Eu vi!!! Quando a audiência da redgóbels ser enorme, tenho que concordar, pois aí daquele que tentasse trocar o canal daquela tv.
Wow so interesting. So we had this kind of wrist watch back in 1980s! Although I was a bit disappointed that the TV wasn't working but it took some 11 minutes away like a flash! Good job !
The analogue signal will sooner or later be replaced by the digital. So as I mentioned in the video, the chance of re reissuing this watch with a analogue receiver is very low. Thanks for watching!
TV here in New Zealand is no longer analogue. Sadly cool old vintage TVs and TV watches no longer work. I had a Casio pocket TV which I used to still use in the late 90s before digital took over around 2010ish. Sad, coz these old gadgets had character and class imo.
It takes a simple internet check on what analog TV stations are being broadcasted locally...if any. This thing will work with old stuff that has an RF modulator such as VCRs and game consoles.
I still cannot understand the logic behind this product: You could not use the tv on the watch without the receiver unit. But the receiver was big and heavy as a brick... So why did they not put the screen onto the receiver unit and they could have used a much bigger monitor... Why there was need for the watch? I fully do not understand apart from that it is a crazy and interesting unit from the early 80s...
It's a shame it wasn't backlit...Such a great innovation that lacked one important feature. The bad thing is I can't see why it wouldn't have been possible to give it a backlite that you could turn on or off if you needed it to save the battery....The original Nintendo Gameboy had the same problem.
When I was a boy, I was daydreaming during Mass one Sunday and was thinking about how naughty it would be to watch TV on your wrist. But also how crazy the idea that one day it would be possible. Now that we have the ability, I have to admit that I really don't care for smartwatches. Who knew?
Work of art. Yet again another example of Japanese workmanship. After 35 years still going strong. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
But dose the tv work?
Old but gold 👌👌
Can you imagine seeing someone watching TV on their wrist watch in 1982? 😱 Absolutely incredible technology, back then!
Yeah... but one expensive boat anchor today
completely pointless. A radio with a display would be better since you have to have it anyway
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That and I thinking. It's without imagination, absolutely incredible
Even though everyone is carrying a supercomputer in their pockets today, this watch is still incredible to me.
Anything that doesn't pop an advert or change my entire content every time I breathe near it or slightly touch it in the wrong way is impressive to me. Modern phones are useful but I miss buttons! Touch screens are a pain in the arse. :)
Yeah, digital TV has kinda killed these watches, shame. :(
Now what would be impressive is if they could have fit the entire receiver into the watch. Otherwise this is just an lcd panel strapped to your wrist rather then being built directly onto the tuner.
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Wow! Haven't seen one of these since grade school days! This was considered to be high tech that time. Just imagine the technology back in the 80's. It was really amazing having one of these back then.
Can't believe they had something like this is 1982..
Sam Jackson the 80s were a lot more advanced then people gave it credit for
I would say that many tech where already in development, but it's nice to see real examples of it.
it looks as if there would now be a laser holographic receiver in watch format from the Star Trek.
I was 11 and saw one in Manhattan, NYC it was very expensive that's why you didn't see it often.
i remember dad got me casio mini tv think it was model 400 its always stuck in my mind cause toke it everywhere
We were dying to buy this in 90's but we couldn't afford this as school kids I hardly saw one piece from an uncle who came from abroad.You revived a long lost memory thanks for the review !!!
LOL after 10 minutes of searching for a signal, he finally remembers they're not broadcasting analog television anymore!!
Lmao
Hey, I have similar feeling like you. I just watched a video of which the guy placed a mega cd into play station1-4 respectively, of course this didn’t work, it costed me 6 minutes.... At least you could see the ghosts and snow flakes ... in this video :)
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When I first saw the watch I was like there's no way they could make a TV watch this small back in 82 then he comes out with the box....ahhh now that's 80s
I came here for the same reason! I was 100% ready to label this a hoax as that level of microtechnology was absolutely unachievable then. It's still damn impressive, but the brick it has to plug into to function makes sense.
Very good this watch i like you
80's electronics devices had the best design ever...
Cannot agree more!
By far I love all those
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Yes, but it might be hard to implement on modern devices, i cant imagine my 6,7" phone, with added room for that kind of design, fitting in the pocket, for instance.. but at least it would look sick, i guess.
Sakarias Karlsson i think it is possible. Just look at what htc did with the m7 aor apple with the iphone 5 and probably with the iphone 2020.
Owning such a watch back then must have been cool. It reminds of Michael Knight's watch he used to communicate with Kitt. 80s, what a decade....
That was an incredible piece of technology for the 80s
i literally slept waiting to see if something would appear on that screen
I guess he forgot that we no longer have analog TV.
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Who needs COVID19 when you can die watching this guy looking for a picture
lol
Have you heard of the fast forward feature?
#ChinaVirus
I watched the entire video buddy without skipping a second
Theo Logian 😂
When this watch was new you would have no problems finding a station. My Dad had a Sharp or Panasonic portable TV from around 1985 or so. It would pickup all stations with no problems. When I was a kid I would actually watch TV on it all the time because I thought the idea of using such a small TV was really cool 😆
The idea is so cool even now we still do not have Netflix on Apple Watch ;)
Раньше всё хотели телевизор 3 сантиметра щас хотят 3 метра
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VHF & UHF ,
came right before the cable wire,
so getting a signal on this today,
may be impossible.
You'd have to be connected
to a giant building antenna,
or atleast be standing close
to catch a signal.
I had a 1" Panasonic ...
@@Damon_Fall-Guy_Mitchell Every thing is digital HD now , uhf vhf was analog signal , there are still multiple live broad cast channels even today.
I remember in 1983, in the USSR, in the magazine Young Technician, there was a small column about foreign achievements and there I read an article about this watch , but even then I realized that the watch is only a screen or a monitor by today's standards , and in general it was fantastic then !
By the way, the magazine Young Technician was very popular with Soviet schoolchildren . It was even produced abroad !!! There was one article about how a Japanese man subscribed to this magazine and taking a useful idea from it, he opened his own business and became rich - became a millionaire and as a sign of gratitude transferred some of the money to the account of the magazine's editorial office !!!
zhurnalko.net/=sam/junyj-tehnik/1983-02--num34
I remember seeing a watch like this on display at Sears when I was a kid. No doubt the price and the fact that the tuner and speakers weren't self contained kept it from being a success. If you had to plug it into a gadget the size of a Walkman to watch TV, then you were better off just buying one of the similarly sized portable TVs of the time
It's easy to see why it wouldn't have been a big money maker, with the screen just being dead space when not hooked up to the transmitter. So freaking cool, I'm glad they took the swing at it.
Ya that pocket sized receiver took the wind out of the sails for me.
This watch was featured in the Australian TV Towards 2000. It seemed so futuristic and forward thinking! Amazing to see this watch in such good condition.
Yup this watch is really clean and beautiful.
I loved Towards 2000 tv show, thanks Australia for that gem of tv show, fond memories as a kid
@@androide81 It is surprisingly hard to find episodes of Towards 2000 uploaded to UA-cam, I wish there was more. Loved that show back in the day.
This is fantastic and it reminds me of the movie octopussy . It was a great invention in the early 80s . I am really shocked by how advanced Japanese technologies are back then . I never saw it in india cause it's not affordable back then the current scenario might be different . We imagined this kind of tiny devices in our childhood in late 90s and early 2000 but never think about that this kind of device actually existed back then even before we were born . It must work as a chick magnet back then for sure . I really fell for the swag who wore this that time . Really a fantastic device and it reminds me of my childhood days when we are heavily inspired by james bond movies and we like to imagine ourselves acting like bond . I am really pleased with this video .Thanks for this video🙏🇮🇳🙏
Thank you for leaving message. Yes. I agree.
@@siivel absolutely fascinating 🔥🙏
This thing was way ahead of it’s time.
Если заместо телевизора впихнуть туда датчик пульса и блютуз побегают ещё😂🎉
Sir Roger Moore was quite impressed to see the magnified picture shown on this watch at the lab in 007 film...
Japan is still 200 years ahead of us in Technology... They had this 1982.
And a decade before this we put a man on the moon
johnmonk66 your point?
@@Coco1477 They were not ahead of us because they made stuff smaller
@@johnmonk66 they're different categories though, U.S has always been ahead when it comes to science which is what you're talking about. But Japan has always been ahead when it comes to technology.
@@Coco1477 Need technology to get to the moon, so i don't agree. I ain't disrespecting Japan, they made things smaller and cheaper, but they didn't invent it.
When these came out I wanted one so much
It's amazing to see them again
Wow the fact that you were able to get any kind of image on the TV was pretty remarkable. Awesome video, thanks for sharing. I remember stuff like this back when I was a kid. It was really incredibly high tech and incredibly expensive back then!!
In 1982 my family had a BW tube lamp tv that needed about 8 minutes to turn on.
I saw one of these at a Sears store in the mall. The jeweler wouldn't let me touch it, but showed it to me. I was blown away.
Can imagine that I was in Sears store...
Never thought this high tech tiny thing ever exist 30 years ago? Thanks for sharing
This watch once appeared in James Bond Octopussy!
Almost 40 years (;
*Zooms in on woman's tits*
Yes, it was
Yes, 40 years ago they lived in caves, douche! 😬
And in Dragnet with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks
I was born in 1982 and immediately thought, 'wow, that watch is old!' Then I remembered I'm 38 lol
Wow, that is some fantastic piece of technology.
Imagine how great that would be if it actually worked!
It did back in the day
Thanks for watching. The analog signal is replaced by digital these days. So it won't work anymore...
@@siivel you can't rig it up to a dtv converter box?
@@siivel On my country, Argentina 🇦🇷 , still have analog TV transmitions. And I have two portables TV receivers:
*Casio Color LCD TV ST 770
*Smallest CRT Tube Portable Panasonic Travelvision TR-1030P
Both them still work very well, and the Panasonic is that have the best performance.
Beautiful pieces of engineering vintage. And I would like to get the Seiko DXA-001. 🙌🏼✨
One of THE 'cyberpunk' items (also including the UC data series), the few techs that dragged my fascination into that genre/ideas. I remembered this when got featured in magazines when I was younger, it's mind-blowing for an advanced tech debuted 1 year earlier than me. Hence this is why I have the fondness & respect of Seiko watches...
If they could go in & change the inside of the receiver so it can get digital channels, it would work great today!!
Sinosure convert from analog to digital
@@sunofshangoihate45thihated85 and we would be able to see hot chicks!
I was gonna say the same thing... watch needs digital tuner... Old analogue no longer works..
I have a 12 inch antenna for my tv, it doesn't pick up crap, so you would have to wear an antenna backpack to use this watch
@@johnmonk66 that's cuzz reception is all digital now.... if you could hook this watch up to digital signal it would pick up close to 15 or 20 free channels. Very clear. Be a fun project for someone that knows what they are doing to play with.. The watches are so damn expensive tho is the problem. You can download mobdro on a smartwatch and get 1000 times the channels for free..
Five minutes ago I didn’t know they had this in 1982 just imagine the things we don’t know they have now in 2020
now they have sold most of tech companies to china
I was 12 when I saw this watch on the film Dragnet in '87. I wanted one so badly I found the address of Seiko UK and wrote them a letter asking where i could get one and how much it would cost. They kindly wrote back informing me that the watch was only available in Japan and would never be sold in the UK. And that was that. I still want one but it'd be pretty useless now.
This is fantastic I clearly wouldn't have had the money for this since I was kid when this came out it's so Dick Tracy, with a George Jetson feel but the style of James Bond... Dam I want this thankyou for showing this off
When I was grade 8 in 1997 , once my friend said his father has TV in his watch. I heard watch that but I didn't believe him.
Yes maine bhi suna tha but beleave nehi kiya tha
Even now some people do believe of this... Some think that blue one is a solar panel...
In 1997, I didn’t have a TV in my room..forget about the watch part.
The TV watch from Japanese corporate Seiko was ahead of time.This watch manufactured in 1982 is the big daddy of Android driven smart watches.
It was futuristic at that time,
Now this days we have smart watches can do anything unbelievable how fast technology is growing.
This is a museum peace,
It seems like Seiko started the concept of flat screen tvs. 1982 tv watch? Damn! That's impressive Japan!
Japan technology in the 80s was crazy: walkmans, discmans, game consoles, MD discam. Thank you so much for watching!
Seiko should definately remake this DXA-001 TV-Watch in this exact design. Still with the old-school LCD on top, the two small red LED's, but with modern electronics and a high-PPI OLED screen.
Casio and Seiko watches, key gadgets for growing up in the 1980's.
I love stuff like this. I like the design of consumer electronics. Back in the 80s my schoolfriend's dad often travelled to Japan on business. He would return with toys and gadgets that seemed amazing to us. He was first by about a year to have a Sony Walkman and one of those little Casio keyboards with pre loaded beats etc. He also had a lot of those little lcd Nintendo games like Donkey Kong. The thing I envied most was his collection of Tron action figures with glow in dark weapons and his Black Hole robots.
This was super high tech for the 80s. Literally this is the sci fi stuff, and would fit in in a James Bond or Star Trek film. I believe it retailed for about two thousand dollars in 1982, which is way way way above what the average Joe can afford.
I absolutely agree ... even scientific calculators in Casio watches where super high tech back then, let alone: a television in a watch. Its not only the first watch with a television in it, its maybe even the first lcd-television at all! Back then, there were portable televisions but they were crt, and the smallest ones were around the size of a shoebox and needed a lot of batteries, or 12v from the car battery. So yes, having it in a watch.. in 1982 (that was pre-nintendo era... pre-gameboy! ) , was like scifi... People ''maybe could imagine something like this in the 2000s'' but not in 1982.
I didnt even heard of this watch, until now.
Now I'm watching UA-cam on my applewatch.
It was in a james bond film,octopussy..
I would to have owned one back in the day but I only earnt £4 a week on a paper round
best watch company of japan. dont blame its -lcd quality: signal/ reciever. just imagine the year 1982. where tvs are rare in homes too
No, TV's weren't rare at all. Just didn't have a lot of them like today. Born in 1982 by the way
Rare? In the west you already hat 8 bit homecomputers plugged in small TVs in the childs rooms ... beside the big color TV in the living rooms
Leopard Boas only the rich had tvs in the 60s bro
In the 80s, colour CRT TV were common. But, compact like this was very advanced tech.
wasn't rare.. but common in 21 inches colors.. by the famous pal and secam.. 80s 💕💕
I dreamt of owning this when I was a kid!
was waiting to hear "Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!!!" cool video, thanks for sharing!
This watch looks so gorgeous, it has the depths on its screen, looks so high-tech even it's an old watch.
I had a Sony Watchman. Small enough to carry around and decent picture. But this was amazing.
Wow it must have been way ahead of its time. And those who wore it must have felt very proud. Especially TV in those days...
Interesting relic. I was always fascinated by the idea of pocket TVs ever since seeing one in a Superman comic in the 1960s and when Sinclair brought out his pocket TV about the same time as this I was off to the shops to buy it - cost as much as a full size colour TV - and I remember pulling over in the car to watch the first Space Shuttle launch on the tiny b+w cathode ray tube screen.
Still got it somewhere…
This SEIKO Watch-TV is a LEGEND...
Good thing we have Netflix now, so we're not burning out butts scanning-out TV receptions/channels for hours just to get a silhouette or shades on the screen...
These are the innovation that put foundation for a smart phone, LCD display, receiver its amazing idea. New generation People would not understand.
My uncle gave me one of these that he had bought for himself because he said it was" too much crap to carry around". I used it for over a decade, and it was the most amazing little thing and held a signal better than a set of rabbit ears. I used to watch March Madness on it at school, and I never told anyone about it except for my close friends. I told the teachers the screen was a solar cell. I only had to have it repaired once, in 1998, and the jeweler was so happy to send it in for servicing, he paid for the repair if he could show it off in the display case at the front of the store for a week. Damn.
Thank you for sharing, love it mate 👌🏼😍😂 what a time to be alive, eh?
James Bond had one! Seiko was very innovative in the late 70s and the 80s: First TV watch, first speaking watch, first pulsation metering watch with wristband, worlds most precise watch (5sec/ year!), dive computer...
Думаю в то время на него можно было что-то поймать, сейчас же ТВ уже почти всё цифровое + много помех от современной техники. Часы смотрятся достаточно современно, так как мода на такой дизайн сейчас как раз вернулась👍
Perhaps it has something to do with analog/digital broadcast. In my country, analog broadcast has been terminated. So old generation TV will never work anymore, except if you install digital decoder.
Yes. Nowadays all is digital signal. But he could connect it with vhf transmitter so he can watch something on his watch.
It's been a really long time since I seen these old watches
Amazing to see how far we have come.
This tech is 1 year older than me wow
70s 80s.. they smashed it
The finishing of this watch seems like as new tnx for keeping the watch as new and also like vintage types of watches....
And here I am watching this video in 2023. We need to have so much patience in those days,which we lack nowadays..
Back in those days the purpose was inventions and service to gain trust, then slowly it changed to business and emptying our pockets.
Made in Japan stuff were so awesome and high quality until everything became made in China with crappy quality. No offence to the Chinese people.
justaman well, that high quality stuff was x10 more expensive in comparison with today’s stuff. You can also get good quality products today in China, but you have to pay more ofc, and we don’t want rhat
justaman i agree, corona virus is their new innovation 🦠
Justaman wrote this comment with his chinese smartphone or his chinese computer... Lol
In the 60's people used to think that japanese products were crappy...
In the 2040's perhaps people will tell : oh it's chinese so it's good... Happily it's not a crappy indian product... With no offence to the indian people.
North Koreans are much better!
@@kartoonz82 lol
Back in the 80s: who would watch a tiny screen on their wrist? This will never be a thing.
2022: 😁
Legends says he is still tuning for HD quality video
I remember my old days of tuning channels on our family CRT TV with analog antennas.
2:43 I love how the illustration goes on to style the guy’s hair circa 80s 😂 We don’t see that anymore.
I saw this watch on an article in popular mechanics around 1981 and always wanted to see one working. !
Its amazing. Love it, Thanks for sharing.
On a side note:
"I will try to demonstrate the watch"
post the whole process of trying to find a channel which could have been edited
"Im going to make sure viewers will feel the whole experience of me not finding any since no one uses analog anymore"
But to be frank there are some showing slightly around 9:24
Totally realistic and wholesome experience which is awesome.
I seriously love it when he said
"A Second-hand price Seiko Watch cost almost the same as Apple watch BUT doesn't have the problem of software upgrade and dying battery" 10:17
Looked impressive until I saw the cable and the pocket receiver. Still looks cool and techie but why not put display in receiver so no cables attached to your wrist and see the time more clearly on the watch.
I've always seen the 80s. Like this decade hip retro and innovations and inventions like today
They used to have one of these on display at BEST department stores when I was a kid. Never saw one out in the wild.
This watch was ahead of his time,even with this massive receiver that you need to carry around was very impressive gadget.
It's a clear reminder how technology developed trough years.
Now you can put advanced digital tv receiver and decoder with internal antenna on a chip that is not bigger then a tip of a nail.
Crazy.
I always, always dreamed to buy this.
Wow 🤩 what a futuristic technology. I was born in 1987. But I can connect as in my family we have black and white CRT tv till 1998. Comparing CRT to lcd in 1982 it is literally unbelievable.
I literally dreamt about a tv watch when i was a kid. I don't know why, but today i was curious to know if they ever existed!
I just imagined that kind of thing in my 20's school days
If you thought the tuner was big, the antenna for this was a 4 foot long triple element yagi beam you attached to a backpack
В школе о таких мечтал.. Думая как же здорово будет подключить к ним сегу или денди и играть в школе 😅
Remember seeing this in the Sharper Image catalog back in the day. Futuristic indeed!
Amazing ...thanks for the video on this watch ... very few countries broadcast an analog signals now ....
Nossa!!! Nasci em 83 e já tinha isso no Japão?! Em 94 muitas casas no Brasil não tinham tv!!!
Já tinha sim. Tanto que a audiência da Globolixo era enorme na época da copa do mundo de 94.
TV era um artigo de luxo nos anos 60 e 70. Nos anos 80 esse item era caro mas era mais acessível, assim como são as TVs 4K hoje em dia.
@@AlexanderPR2 Em 94, fui visitar parentes, numa cidade perto de Presidente Prudente. A noite me falaram "vamos todos assistir tv, ponha a blusa porque está frio!!!" A tv, de 20 polegadas, estava num pilar, no meio da praça!!! Havia 100 pessoas ali!!! Ninguém me falou!!! Eu vi!!! Quando a audiência da redgóbels ser enorme, tenho que concordar, pois aí daquele que tentasse trocar o canal daquela tv.
Problem is many areas don't have tv airwaves anymore. Military took most of it.
Wow so interesting. So we had this kind of wrist watch back in 1980s! Although I was a bit disappointed that the TV wasn't working but it took some 11 minutes away like a flash! Good job !
I remember that device when I was young. Time machine! 😉
Nice dude, never knew this existed 👌
Thank you so much for watching!
No analog TV signals exist in the US
The analogue signal will sooner or later be replaced by the digital. So as I mentioned in the video, the chance of re reissuing this watch with a analogue receiver is very low. Thanks for watching!
TV here in New Zealand is no longer analogue. Sadly cool old vintage TVs and TV watches no longer work. I had a Casio pocket TV which I used to still use in the late 90s before digital took over around 2010ish. Sad, coz these old gadgets had character and class imo.
this watch suitable for my country because analog tv still exist and digital tv is rarely available
I think u can use it here in Bali
@@animequotes1088 hahaha ada yang dari indonesia ternyata komen disini 😂 dari bali pula 😁
amazing little piece of technology there it be cool if seiko remade a digital version of this watch .
It takes a simple internet check on what analog TV stations are being broadcasted locally...if any. This thing will work with old stuff that has an RF modulator such as VCRs and game consoles.
Over the years I have gotten an obsession for 80s watches. Seiko watches during that time period are amazing.
I still cannot understand the logic behind this product: You could not use the tv on the watch without the receiver unit.
But the receiver was big and heavy as a brick...
So why did they not put the screen onto the receiver unit and they could have used a much bigger monitor...
Why there was need for the watch?
I fully do not understand apart from that it is a crazy and interesting unit from the early 80s...
a bigger monitor would increase the price by a lot and the market already had those products with better quality -- less people would buy it
Hence why it didn’t last 😂
@thunderbird002 except the Bond's one was most likely fake.
@thunderbird002 for the time those Casio watches were ahead of their time tho.
It's a shame it wasn't backlit...Such a great innovation that lacked one important feature. The bad thing is I can't see why it wouldn't have been possible to give it a backlite that you could turn on or off if you needed it to save the battery....The original Nintendo Gameboy had the same problem.
Great video, well no one thought of a TV watch back in 1982, thanks for uploading
Thank you so much for watching!
Is it colour t.v. screen or b.w screen ?
Black and white screen. Thank you for watching!
I remember seeing Seiko watch commercials as a kid. It was like watching the future.
Turns out, the future is just a faded, unwatchable mess. :)
Propably you can connect the tv - cable with an analog videoplayer to get a picture on that watch !?
I'd love that they make something like that but for digital channels
The signals are broadcast today only in digital. An old NTSC receiver would not pick anything up.
Supper я ещё не родился ) очень интересно спасибо за видео
Seiko's tagline was:
Someday all watches will be made this way.
When I was a boy, I was daydreaming during Mass one Sunday and was thinking about how naughty it would be to watch TV on your wrist. But also how crazy the idea that one day it would be possible.
Now that we have the ability, I have to admit that I really don't care for smartwatches. Who knew?