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Hi,
as You may already know I am trying to present here some not very common watches (without any concerns related to their past or actual market value
) , but with their quite documented timeline/(hi)story":
And now I will try to present another recent acquisition:
The multi display (Multi Graph???) LCD Zeon Moon Graph Watch, made cca 1989:
![Image](http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz199/cybr/watches/zeon_moongraph_1mm_zpsj1zdwchh.jpg~original)
As I have told You in other post regarding the Madison's FM Radio watches, Zeon is a UK based retailer quite active in the 80's to "borrow" watch designs and releasing "high-tech" watches the UK market (pls see the early 90's Zeon copy of the rare Madison WT/FM Radio/Calculator watch on the below post):
viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8378
But I think that the "design" of Zeon Moon Graph watch may have quite an interesting story behind it:
1. It was made in the late 80s (probably cca 1989) and was sold mostly for the UK market as one may read in the URL below:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/v ... -310701832
2. The watch has some interesting approaches:
i) It has a dual time/DUAL DATE (!)/Chrono/TIMER capabilities. Thus, what I want to underline is that it may DISPLAY NOT ONLY dual time, but also DIFFERENT Dates for that dual times (e.g. if You are an British citizen having a holiday in Hawaii, your London time/date may be e.g. 8:00 AM/February 17, while in Honolulu is UTC-10, 10:00 PM/February 16 and the watch can display both dates not only both times!)
ii) It includes also Stopwatch, Timer and Alarm/Chime functions and an interesting Sun/Moon display for the T2
![Image](http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz199/cybr/watches/zeon_moongraph_2mm_zpssggdplqc.jpg~original)
3. When I first saw it, with its 5 display areas (the main one grey, other 3 being green and the Sun/Moon display - blue) I was started to think at my favorite Casios "GRAPH" series from TGW, DGW, PGW, CGW, GMW (Moon Graph!) lines, most of them launched and labeled as "Wrist Instruments" also in 1989, as one may see in the Casio 1989 Catalogue on Adam's excelent website:
Casio Wrist Instruments -part 1
http://www.digital-watch.com/casio89gal ... full/2190/
Casio Wrist Instruments -part 2
http://www.digital-watch.com/casio89gal ... full/2191/
As one may see on the above catalogues, Casio have launched in 1989 a lot of very interesting (multiple displays area = Multi Graph?) watches such as the following series TGW (T=triple, GW=Graphic Watch), DGW (D=Data/Digi), CGW (C=Cosmos), GMW(GM=Graphic Moon), FT100W (FT=Fish Time, not Forester as FT of the the late series from 1992) etc etc , reunited only in the 1989 catalogue as the "Wrist Instruments" for various amateurs/professionals (various sports referees, amateur astronomers, fishermen etc). All of this watches had a price of about 49.95 USD in 1989 for the resin case/bracelet variant, while the Stainless Steel (SS) case had a price of about 79.95 -89.95 USD (depending probably if the bracelet was resin or SS also).
Thus, an educated guess may be that in 1989 Zeon (as a big Casio rival on the UK market!) have tried to "imitate" Casio and to put on the market a watch "having apparently most/all the functions" of the new 1989 Casios MultiGraph series
- labeled ZEON MOON GRAPH (a similar name with 1989 Casio "Moon Graph" GMW watch!!!
, even if it has only a daily SUN/MOON display not all the Moon Phases! ) - with Multi Graph displays (like Casio TGW/DGW series) and even 2 "Marlin" fishes on it (pls see the Marlin fish on Casio Fish EN Time/FT100w watch in the above 1989 catalogue).
But Zeon tried to "pack" it in a Stainless Steel (SS) case + Goldplated Bezel instead a resin case (only the most expensive Casio Wrist Instruments watches had a SS case) and with a nice brown leather bracelet.
Now, Zeon Moon Graph is a not very common watch (one may rarely find it on Ebay and mostly on the UK one) - so we may presume that it was not sold in large quantities back in 1989.
I will greatly appreciate any other information/photos related to such early LCD Moon-Graph watches from various other brands than Casio or Zeon. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
![I love dwf! :dwf:](./images/smilies/dwf.gif)
as You may already know I am trying to present here some not very common watches (without any concerns related to their past or actual market value
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
And now I will try to present another recent acquisition:
The multi display (Multi Graph???) LCD Zeon Moon Graph Watch, made cca 1989:
![Image](http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz199/cybr/watches/zeon_moongraph_1mm_zpsj1zdwchh.jpg~original)
As I have told You in other post regarding the Madison's FM Radio watches, Zeon is a UK based retailer quite active in the 80's to "borrow" watch designs and releasing "high-tech" watches the UK market (pls see the early 90's Zeon copy of the rare Madison WT/FM Radio/Calculator watch on the below post):
viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8378
But I think that the "design" of Zeon Moon Graph watch may have quite an interesting story behind it:
1. It was made in the late 80s (probably cca 1989) and was sold mostly for the UK market as one may read in the URL below:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/v ... -310701832
2. The watch has some interesting approaches:
i) It has a dual time/DUAL DATE (!)/Chrono/TIMER capabilities. Thus, what I want to underline is that it may DISPLAY NOT ONLY dual time, but also DIFFERENT Dates for that dual times (e.g. if You are an British citizen having a holiday in Hawaii, your London time/date may be e.g. 8:00 AM/February 17, while in Honolulu is UTC-10, 10:00 PM/February 16 and the watch can display both dates not only both times!)
ii) It includes also Stopwatch, Timer and Alarm/Chime functions and an interesting Sun/Moon display for the T2
![Image](http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz199/cybr/watches/zeon_moongraph_2mm_zpssggdplqc.jpg~original)
3. When I first saw it, with its 5 display areas (the main one grey, other 3 being green and the Sun/Moon display - blue) I was started to think at my favorite Casios "GRAPH" series from TGW, DGW, PGW, CGW, GMW (Moon Graph!) lines, most of them launched and labeled as "Wrist Instruments" also in 1989, as one may see in the Casio 1989 Catalogue on Adam's excelent website:
Casio Wrist Instruments -part 1
http://www.digital-watch.com/casio89gal ... full/2190/
Casio Wrist Instruments -part 2
http://www.digital-watch.com/casio89gal ... full/2191/
As one may see on the above catalogues, Casio have launched in 1989 a lot of very interesting (multiple displays area = Multi Graph?) watches such as the following series TGW (T=triple, GW=Graphic Watch), DGW (D=Data/Digi), CGW (C=Cosmos), GMW(GM=Graphic Moon), FT100W (FT=Fish Time, not Forester as FT of the the late series from 1992) etc etc , reunited only in the 1989 catalogue as the "Wrist Instruments" for various amateurs/professionals (various sports referees, amateur astronomers, fishermen etc). All of this watches had a price of about 49.95 USD in 1989 for the resin case/bracelet variant, while the Stainless Steel (SS) case had a price of about 79.95 -89.95 USD (depending probably if the bracelet was resin or SS also).
Thus, an educated guess may be that in 1989 Zeon (as a big Casio rival on the UK market!) have tried to "imitate" Casio and to put on the market a watch "having apparently most/all the functions" of the new 1989 Casios MultiGraph series
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
But Zeon tried to "pack" it in a Stainless Steel (SS) case + Goldplated Bezel instead a resin case (only the most expensive Casio Wrist Instruments watches had a SS case) and with a nice brown leather bracelet.
Now, Zeon Moon Graph is a not very common watch (one may rarely find it on Ebay and mostly on the UK one) - so we may presume that it was not sold in large quantities back in 1989.
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
I will greatly appreciate any other information/photos related to such early LCD Moon-Graph watches from various other brands than Casio or Zeon. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
![I love dwf! :dwf:](./images/smilies/dwf.gif)
Every watch should have its own story...consequently, a watch collector has to be a good storyteller :)