The nerdiest wristwatches of all time #Watches #Technology @TheLunduke
Bryan Lunduke compiles a list of the nerdiest wristwatches of all time.
I’m going to propose an idea: The nerdy watches of the 1980s (and early 1990s) were far cooler (and far nerdier) than the smartwatches of today.
Google Wear? Apple Watch? No thanks. I’ll take a Seiko from the mid-80s, thank you very much.
What follows are, in my opinion, the absolute best of the nerdy watches. There are more — many more — such nerdy watches (which included calculators, actual transformer type toys, and more)… but these are my top picks.
Included in the list:
The Seiko UC-2000 (above)
The Seiko Epson RC-20 Wrist Computer (video below)
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