Greatest Digital Watch Hits of the 80s : Casio, Seiko, Citizen and more!

80s digital watches has been a favourite of my viewers, so to celebrate 5k subscribers I thought doing a broader review of the whole period of 80s digitals from Casio, Seiko, Citizen and more would be a fun one. I’ve used the inspiration of the classic 80s :”Now that’s what I call music” compilation albums as a theme for the video, with each different type of watch representing a track on the list. We will cover Ana-digi watches, sports watches, nerdy calculator and computer watches, early sensor watches, melody alarms, (su-su-susudio ) pseudo-analogs the rise of the g-shock and many more. Lots of fun making this one and weaving in plenty of 80s references. I hope you enjoy the video!

Track 1: Wake me up before you go-go 0:40
Track 2: Best of Both Worrlds 02:15
Track 3: Su-su Pseudo analog 04:37
Track 4: Running up that hill 07:08
Track 5: Computer Love 12:09
Track 6: Pac-man Fever 14:06
Track 7: Sharp dressed man 16:42
Track 8: Walkin’ on Sunshine 18:23
Track 9: Its raining men 19:15
Track 10: When the going gets tough (the tough get going) 21:02

A particularly relevant resource was Pierre Doyon’s excellent scans of the various Casio catalogues (from the Casio Vintage Facebook Group). Newspaper clippings were largely using my subscription to newspapers.com