Timex is resurrecting its first LCD watch 50 years later

Retro looks and constricted functionality. | Image: Timex

In 1972, Hamilton’s Pulsar Time Computer launched the archetypal commercially sold integer watch, but its LED surface was powerfulness bare and lone showed the clip erstwhile you pushed a button. What helped marque integer watches applicable was the eventual upgrade to low-power, always-on LCD displays, which Timex archetypal introduced connected its SSQ ticker successful 1975. Now, 50 years later, Timex is resurrecting that breakthrough watch.

The Timex SSQ Digital Reissue isn’t an nonstop reproduction of the original. There are modern electronics wrong it, but the functionality remains arsenic minimal arsenic the original. The SSQ Digital Reissue has been updated with a recycled stainless-steel case, a brushed stainless-steel bracelet, and a chunky but retro-looking navy bluish acrylic bezel astir the LCD display. The archetypal SSQ featured conscionable a azygous crown dial but the reissue swaps that for a pusher fastener connected either broadside of the bezel, making it somewhat easier to acceptable the time. It’s besides h2o resistant to a extent of 50-meters, but Timex says its h2o absorption whitethorn beryllium negated if you property those buttons portion submerged.

The timepiece is currently listed connected the Timex Japan site for 28,600 yen, oregon astir $187, with preorders expected to commencement connected October 17th, 2025. It’s besides listed connected Timex’s US site for $159, but is shown arsenic being sold out.