Timex Watches 1977
Published October 19, 2010 | 
Timex Watches 1977
In 1854 Waterbury, CT-based brass manufacturer Benedict & Burnham created Waterbury Clock Company to manufacture clocks using brass wheels and gears. Waterbury Clock Company was legally incorporated on March 27, 1857 as an independent business with $60,000 in capital. The American clock industry, with scores of companies located in Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley, was producing millions of clocks, earning the region the nickname, “Switzerland of America”. The Waterbury Clock Company was one of the largest producers for both domestic sales and export, primarily to Europe. Today its successor, Timex Group USA, Inc. is the only remaining watch company in the region.
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Voyage of the Damned Trailer 1977
Published October 18, 2010 | Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1974 book written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. It was the basis of a 1976 film drama. The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St. Louis ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939.
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Leave a commentSekonda Watches 80s (Harry Enfield)
Published October 15, 2010 | Advert for Sekonda Watches from the 80s featuring Harry Enfield.
Sekonda is a British distributor of fashion wristwatches. Sekonda is the best-selling watch brand in the United Kingdom.
Originally a company which marketed Soviet-made times pieces in the West, Sekonda’s Soviet ties ended with the break-up of the USSR. Most Soviet-era Sekondas were re-badged Poljot and Raketa models produced respectively by the First Moscow Watch Factory and the Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
Since 1993, the company has imported its products from factories in Asia, as it no longer has ties with the Russian Producers. Since 2004 the First Moscow Watch Factory is not producing anymore, though the Petrodvorets Watch Factory is still producing the Raketa watches
Sekonda also markets watches under the sub-brand SEKSY for Ladies Fashion, ONE for men’s fashion and Xpose for rugged outdoor lifestyles of either gender.
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Posted in Uncategorized | asia, harry enfield, ladies fashion, models, moscow, poljot, raketa watches, russian producers, sekonda watches, seksy | Leave a commentSeiko Watches 1980s
Published October 15, 2010 | Seiko Watches advert from the 1980s.
The company started in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called “K. Hattori” (服部時計店, Hattori Tokeiten?) in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the name Seikosha (精工舎, Seikōsha?). According to Seiko’s official company history, titled “A Journey In Time: The Remarkable Story of Seiko” (2003), Seiko is a Japanese word meaning “exquisite,” “minute,” or “success.” (The meaning “exquisite” is usually written 精巧, while the meaning “success” is usually written 成功.)
Posted in Uncategorized | hattori, jewelry shop, quartz chronograph, quartz watch, seiko, seiko watches, time, timepieces, tokyo japan, watches, wrist watch | Leave a commentParker Harlequin Pen 1980s
Published September 29, 2010 | Parker Harlequin Pen advert from the 1980s
The Parker Pen Company is a manufacturer of pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. It is currently owned by Newell Rubbermaid.
George S Parker, the founder, had previously been a sales agent for the John Holland Gold Pen Company. He received his first fountain pen related patent in 1889. In 1894 Parker received a patent on his “Lucky Curve” feed,[1] which was claimed to draw excess ink back into the pen body when the pen was not in use. The Lucky Curve feed was used in various forms until 1928.
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