Vintage Computer Automatic Watch Founders Limited Edition • AndoAndoAndo

A vintage computer on your wrist?!

Vintage 9-Track Computer

When I was small, sci-fi shows and movies I saw sometimes had those cabinet-sized computers and gigantic tapes.

When looking at the Vinyl Record Watches I designed, that memory came into my mind. And so I took an inspiration from this old computer IBM System/360's 9-track tape, which is a magnetic-tape data storage format.

I was born in 1985, so I never saw that kind of big computer systems in my real life. So that memory always stayed in me as something that gives me classic sci-fi vibes.

And I wanted to bring that into reality. A vintage computer on your wrist, how sci-fi-cool is that!

The Design

And so I wanted to make it like this, utilizing both the case and the dial of the Vinyl Record Watch, but with a new chapter ring and the second, minute, hour disks.

The second disk and the chapter ring are in off-white color. This is the color that reminded me of these old plastic casings of the computers (well maybe old personal computers, rather than cabinet computers) back then.

(above image is of a prototype with badly hand-painted hour disk :D )

The chapter ring has a slightly shiny texture. There are white color on the 12, 3, 6, 9 o'clock. And red, green, blue colors are above 9 o'clock indicator. The minute and hour indicators of the chapter ring were inspired by buttons / light-up indicators of computers and panels of that era.

(IBM 2401 tape drives at the Computer History Museum, Photographter: Don DeBold)

Like the indicator lights on the top of these tape drives on the picture above! And these white, red, blue, green color are hand painted each pieces!

What Time is it?

It might actually be slightly easier to read the time compared to the Vinyl Record Watch. For example, this below image reads: 10:10

Hour: The disk you can see at the center is the Hour Disk*, with a dark element being the hour indicator. The hour disk you of the prototype you will get will be replaced with a silver colored electroplated disk, with a longer matte line, like this image:

Minute: The off-white element you can see on the outer edge of the dial. When the second disk rotates, you can also see the "A" logo pointing the minute direction.

Second: The big off-white disk with three holes, that looks like a tape casing structure.

The strap would be like this:

Caseback:

Yes this fully functioning "Prototypes" are limited. The case back states 50pcs, that's the total number of this Founder's edition.

We made 30 pcs of the creme white second disk version, and 20 pcs of the silver second disk version, making this total 50 pcs.

Specs:

Movement: Miyota 9039 Premium Automatic, made in Japan

Accuracy: ｰ10～＋30 sec/day
Vibration Frequency: 28800 per hour
Power Reserves: 42 hours

Water Resistance: 5 ATM

Strap: Genuine leather

Dimensions:

Lug-to-Lug: 36 mm
Lug Width: 22 mm
Case Width: 41 mm
Case Thickness: 10.7 mm
Case Top: Case Top with Four Screws and a Sapphire Crystal, with inner Anti Reflection coating
Case Back: Case Back with Four Screws and a Sapphire Crystal

Package: Just the usual AndoAndoAndo recyclable, cool, small, fun, cardboard package!