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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It announces the time in a clear voice. Fancy at this time.

I found it and took the picture at the international watch museum.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Oh no. Im old.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I didn't know about this community. I crossposted there.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It looks like a $5 watch today, but I'm sure back then it cost like $200 because of new technology.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It sells nowadays online for 10-15$.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I am pretty sure I know exactly what it sounds like. I had a talking alarm clock from the same era and everything that made sound electronically back then did so by using the same chips with the same samples as everything else. (Including pocket 'trick noise makers' and car alarms - those two categories even had some overlapping samples if I remember right)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Boong it’s two fifty nine peee-em

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yup. And of course the slightly staticy

"Er Er Er-Er Errrrrrrr!"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, had the rooster alarm. I had one too

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Museum. Museum! i don't doubt you (especially given how special they stood it up), but they sell these at the convenience store down the street from me. it's not a "clear voice".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The museum display this watch inside a timeline to show you the evolution. It's actually neat of them to put cheap watches in the general exhibition. You have a broad range from this cheap watch to an old disused atomic clock.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

sorry, my tone is a bit harsh tonight. it's actually a really cool display - i think i'm just getting a little defensive about my age.

i have a friend who goes to flea markets and collects old radium clocks and other stuff that glows his gieger.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I know a lady who is totally blind who uses one of these to tell the time. Pretty awesome.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What has four legs and ticks?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

These are still pretty popular today. Maybe not this particular model, but talking watches are still used by many blind people.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Dammit I had one of those.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mine spoke German, which I don't... Es ist acht und zwansig Minutten bis zehn

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I still have mine in a drawer somewhere. I wonder if a new battery and it would work? Probably....

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