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)
  • The Seiko TV Watch
  • The Many (cheap) Video Game Watches
  • The Timex / Microsoft Data-Link

You can read all the details in the article in the blog and also see the Epson RC-20 in action playing a T-Rex game:

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