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Hi,
Some time ago I wrote about Casio "Wrist Instruments" watches of 1989 - including the famous Casio "Moon Graph" - GMW and "Cosmo Phase" - CGW watches...presented against their "rival": the British Zeon Moon Graph watch...
http://www.newdwf.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8482
One may see some Casio advertising of the 1989 "Wrist Instruments" watches on the WWW archive of the old version of Adam's excellent website, since they are not available now - unfortunately - on Adam's current website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160812100737im_/http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/casio89/09.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20160812112951im_/http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/casio89/10.jpg
I also presented there how the UK based Zeon Watch company have produced a similar "multi-graph" colored watch, trying to give the impression that they have also a SIMILAR "Moon Graph" watch...
In fact their Zeon Moon Graph was only a Night/Day - Sun/Moon colored display watch...but quite advanced for 1989, since it had dual time/DUAL DATE (!)/Chrono/TIMER capabilities.
Now I try to present You another WANNABE "Wrist Instruments" watch...the ONE AND ONLY (=first ever seen - at least by me
, no other reported in the collector's ring, no other found on web images archives etc etc)...cca 1989, large LCD Piratron COSMO GRAPH Alarm Chrono - with a quite heavy base metal case, a thick (acrylic?) glass and SSteel caseback - probably launched to be a "competition" to the now famous Casio Cosmo Phase LCD watches/variants:
Piratron seems to be a brand of the Hong Kong based company Functional B Electronics Co.Ltd,famous for their AM/FM Radio Watches in the late 80s.
https://doensen.home.xs4all.nl/q8.html
https://doensen.home.xs4all.nl/fotos/Q7b-8.jpg
It is worth mentioning that Casio used the word "Graph" in the famous "Moon Graph" watches, but not in the "Cosmo"watches, where they used the phrase "Cosmo Phase" not "Graph"...would/may this means that the "Cosmo Graph" brand was already reserved/registered by other companies (e.g. Piratron) back in 1987-1989???
Of course...this "Cosmic" Piratron seems to be very rare, but this will NOT necessarily make it also expensive or even desirable...if you are not some sort of LCD and/or Space Age/Space/Cosmos related watches collector...
But it is important that it EXISTED as a more or less Casio's alternative back than !
My newly arrived Piratron COSMO GRAPH, near one of my genuine 1989 Casio Cosmo Phase -Wrist Instruments watch- for the sake of comparison.
Please let me know if You have seen a similar LCD watch, even from another known/unknown brand...Thanks in advance for Your kind answers
Regards,
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Some time ago I wrote about Casio "Wrist Instruments" watches of 1989 - including the famous Casio "Moon Graph" - GMW and "Cosmo Phase" - CGW watches...presented against their "rival": the British Zeon Moon Graph watch...
http://www.newdwf.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8482
One may see some Casio advertising of the 1989 "Wrist Instruments" watches on the WWW archive of the old version of Adam's excellent website, since they are not available now - unfortunately - on Adam's current website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160812100737im_/http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/casio89/09.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20160812112951im_/http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/casio89/10.jpg
I also presented there how the UK based Zeon Watch company have produced a similar "multi-graph" colored watch, trying to give the impression that they have also a SIMILAR "Moon Graph" watch...
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
In fact their Zeon Moon Graph was only a Night/Day - Sun/Moon colored display watch...but quite advanced for 1989, since it had dual time/DUAL DATE (!)/Chrono/TIMER capabilities.
![megacool :mega:](./images/smilies/cool2.gif)
Now I try to present You another WANNABE "Wrist Instruments" watch...the ONE AND ONLY (=first ever seen - at least by me
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
Piratron seems to be a brand of the Hong Kong based company Functional B Electronics Co.Ltd,famous for their AM/FM Radio Watches in the late 80s.
https://doensen.home.xs4all.nl/q8.html
https://doensen.home.xs4all.nl/fotos/Q7b-8.jpg
It is worth mentioning that Casio used the word "Graph" in the famous "Moon Graph" watches, but not in the "Cosmo"watches, where they used the phrase "Cosmo Phase" not "Graph"...would/may this means that the "Cosmo Graph" brand was already reserved/registered by other companies (e.g. Piratron) back in 1987-1989???
![thinking :scratch:](./images/smilies/scratch_head.gif)
Of course...this "Cosmic" Piratron seems to be very rare, but this will NOT necessarily make it also expensive or even desirable...if you are not some sort of LCD and/or Space Age/Space/Cosmos related watches collector...
![grin :grin1:](./images/smilies/grin.gif)
![megacool :mega:](./images/smilies/cool2.gif)
My newly arrived Piratron COSMO GRAPH, near one of my genuine 1989 Casio Cosmo Phase -Wrist Instruments watch- for the sake of comparison.
Please let me know if You have seen a similar LCD watch, even from another known/unknown brand...Thanks in advance for Your kind answers
![Prost! :Prost:](./images/smilies/zuprosten.gif)
casio_cosmo_phase_piratron_cosmo_graph.jpg
Regards,
![I love dwf! :dwf:](./images/smilies/dwf.gif)
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Last edited by cybr on 06 Apr 2022, 21:49, edited 1 time in total.
Every watch should have its own story...consequently, a watch collector has to be a good storyteller :)