Vintage Watch Site

An online resource for LED, LCD and digital watches

Here are the LCD watches.

Accurist

Countdown 2000

1997. Watch modelled on the official timepiece of the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich to countdown to the year 2000.

Accurist

Gold Band

1979. A must for the late 70's adult movie star or blinged rapper? Wide gold tone band and simple display make this watch something else.

Advance

Melody

1983. Hong Kong made watch with two front and two side buttons featuring a time only display and a rather nice (unknown) melody tune alarm.

Beltime

28477SHC World Time

1978. Copy of Seiko M158 in face only. It actually does not have world time option despite markings.

Casio

WQV10 Camera

2005. Camera watch with 176 x 144 pixel images in 16770000 colors (JPG format) on 1Mb memory. 20 x 20mm color STN display and Infrared.

Casio

Hotbiz Memory Protect 200 Touch

Early ninties edition from Hotbiz (Japan only release?) of Casio Memory Protect 200 with Touch Screen.

Casio

Memory Protect 200

Early ninties edition from Hotbiz (Japan only release?) of Casio Memory Protect 200.

Ching Cheong

Water Watch

1990. Hong kong made watch that 'runs' on water. Simply place in water overnight and the watch will work for 3-4 days.

Croton

Terrestrial Quartz

Very early (1974?) hand soldered field effect module cased in large gold tone case with blue face and traditional crown for setting.

Gruen

LCQ

Very early (1974?) hand soldered field effect AMI 535A module in large gold tone case with signed crown for setting.

Gruen

LCQ 3102

1979? Swiss module in gold tone case with constant display of time with seconds and also day and date function.

Gruen

Pacemaker (LCQ-1-520A)

Early (1975?) field effect module. One of the first LCD watches featuring night light

Gruen

Teletime

1974. Very early (one of the first) watches using field effect LCD display. Basic operations with crown for setting.

Gruen

Teletime

1974. Very early (one of the first) watches using field effect LCD display. Basic operations with crown for setting.

Henderson Sinclair

Quartz LCD

1981? Looks and feels like a far east watch but would like more history (with the name Sinclair in the maker) anyone?

Instar

Solid State

Not too sure on the origin or history for this watch. Anyone offer any aditional information? Looks fairly early (mid to late 70's)?

Longines

Gemini II

1976. Wonderful watch that mixes both LED and LCD technology by having two display areas so the time can be read day or night!

Longines

LCD 133

1980. Swiss made (ESA) module with spit screen hours minutes seconds and date display that also features an alarm.

Longines

L7871

1978. Early split screen display featuring chronograph in unique case with chunky square buttons.

MBO

0751 World Time

1979. Copy of Seiko M158 in looks only. Actually does not have world time option despite markings on face.

Medana

Black Jack 21

Watch with Black Jack (21) game. Not very exciting when compared to modern games but still provides excellent retro portable entertainment.

Mercury

Unknown

80's LCD with basic design and build but very neat dot matrix display with scroll feature.

Microma

Black and Gold

1974? Good looking watch in matt black with gold trimming showing time and seconds with date function.

Microma

MD-020-Y

1979? Unusual split screen where top shows hours and minutes while lower show running seconds and day. This model also features an alarm.

Microma

MD-014-Y

1979? Split screen display with hours minutes seconds and day. This model also features a chronograph.

Microma

Black and Gold

1974? Good looking watch in matt black with gold trimming showing time and seconds with date function.

Microma

Continuous Display Digital

1976. Fairly early LCD watch from Microma (then owned by Intel).

Microma

Solid State

1974 - Early field effect LCD from silicon valley digital watch pioneers Microma (who were part of Intel).

Microma

Quartz Solid State

1975. Fairly early round faced LCD from Microma who were under Intel control by this time.

Microma

Solid State (Ladies)

1975. Small (ladies) digital with no buttons (it's a magnet set system!)

Microma

Ladies

Ladies digital from late 70's with basic module and tiny LCD on small watch face

Microma

3 button dress watch

1980. Simple dress watch featuring stopwatch (3 button) module

Micronta

LCD Pen 63-5077

1985. Wonderful pen in stainless with LCD panel displaying time and day/date. Made by well known maker (part of Radio Shack).

Micronta

Quartz Chrono Alarm

1981. US firm Tandy decided hong kong was the place to manufacture this Seiko copy and why not.

Montana

16 Melody Chrono

1991? Horrid cheap and nasty plastic feeling watch. Only good point is 16 melody module.

Motorola

Pager 714BSS22V4

1991. Wristwatch incorporating a pager. Introduced before the mobile phone was portable.

National Semiconductor

909 LCD

1980? Far east made case does not do justice to american made module.

Nepro

Quartz Solid State DSM

1974. Early DSM with Microma module sold by Nepro in europe

Optel

Optcom I (Jules Jurgensen)

1975. Early field effect LCD from pioneers Optel. Basic hand soldered module and crown set operation.

Optel

Quartz DSM

1974. Very early LCD using dynamic scatter module from the company that invented the technology.

Optel

Optcom I (Jules Jurgensen) DSM

1974. Very early dynamic scatter LCD from pioneers Optel. Basic hand soldered module and crown set operation.

Optel

Optcom I (Jules Jurgensen)

1974. Very early field effect LCD from pioneers Optel. Basic hand soldered module and crown set operation.

Pulsar

Calculator Y739

1979. Truely wonderful calculator watch in gold on stainless. In true Pulsar style this watch contains a handy button pointer in the clasp.

Segtronic

Segtronic Quartz Gold

1975. Early field effect LCD sold by Segtronic by manufactured by Optel. Basic hand soldered module and crown set operation.

Seiko

0124-0049

1976. Very large and heavy transitional style LCD watch with separate window for date and linear seconds display.

Seiko

0124-0049

1976. Very large and heavy transitional style LCD watch with separate window for date and linear seconds display.

Seiko

0139-5029

1977. Early transitional style with crown for setting that includes seconds and day indication on the display plus dual time feature.

Seiko

0439-5007

1977. Early model with two front buttons. This watch has excellent shape and proportions.

Seiko

0634-5000

1975. Very early watch featuring a chronograph (stopwatch) and two front buttons plus unusual split window design.

Seiko

A029-5010

1978. Early LCD featuring chronograph (stopwatch) timer (countdown) and alarm.

Seiko

A128-5009

1978. Very heavy early 4 button design featuring chronograph (stopwatch) and day display.

Seiko

A229-5010

1978. Full day and date display with chronograph (stopwatch) feature and champagne coloured display back.

Seiko

A257-5009

1980. Full day and date display with chronograph (stopwatch) alarm and classic 4 button case.

Seiko

A914-5010

1984. Featuring chronograph (stopwatch) alarm large and simple day and date display and classic four button case.

Seiko

C153-5007

1977. The calculator feature merges with the day and date display on this iconic watch from the late 70's.

Seiko

C515-5009

1983. Chunky calculator memory watch with large buttons (can even be used with a finger)

Seiko

D410-5000

1986. Dot matrix display super weight and feel on the wrist memo schedule alarm and stopwatch features and it tells the time too.

Seiko

M354-5020

1979. Wonderful watch with dual layer overlayed LCD display one featuring normal time day and date the other with memory bank calendar.

Seiko

Data 2000 (UW01-0020)

1984. Classic Data-2000 'computer' watch with dot matrix display in black with separate contoller keyboard.

Seiko

Data 3000 (UW02-0020)

1984. UC-3000 'computer' watch with dot matrix display in black with separate contoller keyboard.

Seiko

E029-5310

1982. Ladies dual display analogue and digital watch in gold tone with alarm.

Seiko

C359-5000

1979. The second attempt at a calculator from giants Seiko. Not there best but still a good watch.

Seiko

A714-5080

1984. Split screen watch featuring alarm and chronograph. This is silver wave version (with chunky buttons).

Seiko

M158-5009

1977. World time watch with yellow LCD backing (to make it easier for pilots to read in low light suroundings).

Seiko

M158-5009 (Stainless)

1977. World time watch with yellow LCD backing (to make it easier for pilots to read in low light suroundings).

Seiko

A239-502A

1979. World time watch featuring dual layer LCD panel (either normal date and time or world map are shown)

Seiko

M354-5019

1978. Memory bank calendar watch featuring dual layer LCD technology (time and date or calendar are shown)

Seiko

H239-5040

1980. Watch featuring LCD panel and analogue display. Many neat features. I really like this watch!

Seiko

M516-4009

Seiko M516-4009 voice-recorder from 1983 with the ability to record two messages

Seiko

G757-4010

1981. One of the many Seiko watches made famous by one James Bond (007). The G757 is a superb LCD multifunction watch.

Seiko

A159-4029

1977. Early Seiko featuring an alarm. Simple design using 4 button case makes this an understated classic.

Seiko

F039-5010

1980. Fairly basic and simple watch with only minimum of functions but good clear display.

Sekonda

World Time

1979. Copy of Seiko M158 but unlike most copies this does have yellow (tinged) LCD panel AND world time feature.

Sensor

TriLite

1980? Basic 6 digit LCD but features Tritium backlite. Good solid watch from good solid maker.

Sensor

LC

1979? Basic 6 digit LCD with day date feature. Simple but effective and feels very solid and dependable.

Timex

Analogue/Digital

1983. Classic 80's dual Analogue and Digital displays merged together by the manufacture of 80's watches.

Timex

Gold Dress Watch

1976? Basic early module (only displays time and seconds or date) in very flashy gold colour dress watch

Timex

SSQ

1978. Simple but very sold watch from the SSQ series by Timex.

Tissot

Data Recorder

Late 70's multifunction LCD watch by Tissot using a Casio (Casiotron?) module.

Tissot

F1

1985. Top quality digital (using Omega movement) that has many features most notably touch sensor panel to select mode.

Tissot

T026.420.17.281.03

2012. Really big and heavy diver watch with good feature set and looks to match

Tokima

Digirobo

1983. The one and only original transformer watch. A classic piece of form and function.

Tokima

Steamhead

1998. HUGE and very heavy robot transformer watch with neat scrolling message display.

Tokima

Digirobo

1983. The one and only original transformer watch. A classic piece of form and function.

Unknown

Droid

1999. LCD watch in battle droid (episode 1) shaped case with flip open feature.

Unknown

Thomas Tank

2004. LCD watch in Thomas the tank shaped case. Thomas flips open to display time. Comes with very bright band.

Unknown

Smarties Bubble

Advertising watch with large bubble front containing liquid three smarties and a LCD watch panel. Fairly pointless but very bright and fun.

Unknown

Spot Beam Torch

Here we have a funky plastic watch from the far east. Has simple time date and second functions plus a built in torch function!

Unknown

LC Quartz

80's. Mass produced far east LCD shown here as typical of the type example.

Unknown

Darth Maul

1999. Merchandising from the Star Wars film Phantom Menace featuring the Darth Maul character

Wesco

Wallace and Gromit

2007. Basic LCD advertising Curse of the Were Rabbit film. Comes with interchangable front covers. Excellent.

Westclox

QuartzMatic (35360)

Early (1974?) field effect LCD with hand solder module

Why?

Port Hole Watch

Large rubbery LCD watch with magnification through port hole style front. Seconds appear HUGE with time below.

Wittnauer

LCD Watch

1977. Cheep and cheerful LCD with simple time date month design.

Zentra

Savoy Chronoquartz LC

1980. Big square LCD in a style very popular with swiss makers during the early 80's