Hi, looking into my drawer I have found a watch like this: a Q&Q with DOT MATRIX display, made around Year 2000.
The watch may look cheap and quite ugly designed, but its capabilities are quite impressive for a cheap Q&Q watch, made probably more than 15 years ago:
One can see the nice animations for various functions and the simple driver game on that tiny Dot Matrix display of the watch, in the short movie below (the movie is not mine!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bljc_U1Uruk
FUNCTIONS:
TIME: Hour/Min/Sec (AM/PM or 24-hour display)
CALENDAR: Year/Month/Date/Day (Years 2000 - 2040)
WORLDTIME/ZONE SETTING: 28 cities/time zones (+ individual Summertime setting for for every city!)
DATA MEMORY: Memos for 576 letters
TIDE GRAPH: Graphic display showing tendency toward spring tide or neap tide
ALARM: 5 different alarms ( Hour/Min - AM/PM or 24-hour), Chime, Beep
STOPWATCH: Hour, Min, Sec, 1/100 sec; memory for last 10 out of 100 laps/splits!
GAME: Drive game
MOONPHASEs: Graphic display of the stage of the lunar cycle
7 LANGUAGES: Day-of-the-week display; function messages
ELECTROLUMINESCENT LIGHT
So, my question is if somebody may know more details about this watch and if there are available other known DOT Matrix watches with the same or a similar Dot Matrix LCD module, from the same timeline?
I already know that Q&Q is a brand of Japan CBM Corporation - which is a division of Citizen Corporation, so I wonder if there are available some (Citizen?) dot matrix watches with a similar Dot Matrix module, but a better and more appealing design?
Thanks in advance for Your kind answers,
Regards,
The watch may look cheap and quite ugly designed, but its capabilities are quite impressive for a cheap Q&Q watch, made probably more than 15 years ago:
QQ_dot_matrix_year_2000.jpg
One can see the nice animations for various functions and the simple driver game on that tiny Dot Matrix display of the watch, in the short movie below (the movie is not mine!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bljc_U1Uruk
FUNCTIONS:
TIME: Hour/Min/Sec (AM/PM or 24-hour display)
CALENDAR: Year/Month/Date/Day (Years 2000 - 2040)
WORLDTIME/ZONE SETTING: 28 cities/time zones (+ individual Summertime setting for for every city!)
DATA MEMORY: Memos for 576 letters
TIDE GRAPH: Graphic display showing tendency toward spring tide or neap tide
ALARM: 5 different alarms ( Hour/Min - AM/PM or 24-hour), Chime, Beep
STOPWATCH: Hour, Min, Sec, 1/100 sec; memory for last 10 out of 100 laps/splits!
GAME: Drive game
MOONPHASEs: Graphic display of the stage of the lunar cycle
7 LANGUAGES: Day-of-the-week display; function messages
ELECTROLUMINESCENT LIGHT
So, my question is if somebody may know more details about this watch and if there are available other known DOT Matrix watches with the same or a similar Dot Matrix LCD module, from the same timeline?
I already know that Q&Q is a brand of Japan CBM Corporation - which is a division of Citizen Corporation, so I wonder if there are available some (Citizen?) dot matrix watches with a similar Dot Matrix module, but a better and more appealing design?
Thanks in advance for Your kind answers,
Regards,
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