Our pals at Watchismo have launched a new store to highlight their kick-ass line of reproductions of LIP diode watches — replicas of Roger Tallon’s 1973 timepieces that were among the first (and coolest) digital watches made. I bought my LIP back in September and I’ve been wearing it ever since.
Watchismo has offered to give away a LIP watch to one Boing Boing reader (and to offer a 20 percent discount to BB readers on the entire store, which includes dozens of superb vintage and new watches — just use the discount code BBWATCHISMO) in a giveaway drawing that’s scheduled for the 22nd of December.
I love watches — my grandfather was a watchmaker and I grew up surrounded by them — and I discovered Watchismo through a friend’s recommendation. Since then, I’ve bought two watches from the site, and been given two more as gifts, and each one is an absolute treasure: beautiful, functional, and distinctive. There’s an early digital that you adjust by rubbing a magnet (hidden in the bracelet) against the back of the case. There’s another early digital whose numbers are actually printed in bright orange LED font on hidden cardboard wheels and then reflected on a disguised curved mirror that makes it appear that they are lit from within.
The craftsmanship and aesthetics of Watchismo’s stocks really hit the sweet-spot for me: they’re gizmos that are meant to last for the ages and be used every day.
Welcome to the BoingBoing LIP Diode Giveaway!