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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !!!
@@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.
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.
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
@@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..
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🙏🇮🇳🙏
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. 🙌🏼✨
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.
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.
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,
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👍
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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…
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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 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...
@@magomedmagomedov454 сильно. но, я думал что и приёмник в часы запихнули. а тут ещё такая приблуда снаружи и провода... такое себе решение, даже для 80x. ;)
What's the advantage of having a tiny screen on the watch when you have to carry that bulky receiver around? Are you not better off having a big screen on the receiver if you have to carry it anyway.