In 1976, Texas Instruments announced a $19.95 LED watch, ... The digital watch had gone from the wrist of presidents and royalty to the supermarket checkout aisle. In 1977, ...

Yema, which produced LED watches in the 1970s, launches the watch as a Kickstarter on March 18 with three available buy-ins starting at €195 (approximately $215 USD). In other watch news, Pierre ...

Founded in 1975, Armitron made digital watches during the heyday of the LED screen, updating to LCD technology and using Japanese-made quartz movements throughout the 1980s.

At this year’s Baselworld, Bulova released a re-edition of the Computron, a unique LED watch with an angled display that allowed for ease of reading while driving. One of the three variants is this ...

And it didn’t bother James Bond, who showed off his own Hamilton Pulsar P2 2900 LED digital watch in the Roger Moore-era Live and Let Die (1973).

Hamilton is bringing back its Pulsar digital watch — a remake of the first digital watch that was announced 50 years ago. It’ll cost $750, and it uses modern OLED technology together with LCDs ...

Not until 1976, when Texas Instruments made plastic LED watches that sold for $19.95, did digital watches start appearing on the wrists of everyday people. But even by then, success was no sure thing.

Oh, to be alive during the Computron's heyday. For the unfamiliar, in the free-spirited, forward-thinking 1970s, LED watches were blowing up. One the best-known models in the wake of the 1969 ...

Hamilton’s new PSR digital watch — a recreation of the original Pulsar Time Computer, the first digital watch ever sold — had the same battery life problems as modern smartwatches like the ...

World’s First Digital Watch, Seen on James Bond in ‘Live and Let Die,’ Is Back. Hamilton is debuting the new PSR, a nearly faithful reinterpretation of its space-age-style "wrist computer ...