1970s Mechanical Timex 🙂 Loses a minute a day, but absolutely bulletproof!Submitted by jmp3r96 t3_10c7ptt in BuyItForLife
bill1024 t1_j4f5dby wrote
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In the 70s, a cheap watch might lose or gain 5 minutes a day. Timex was a cheap watch.
It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking! was their motto iirc.
ErikRogers t1_j4hwkr0 wrote
They ran with that motto in to the 90's. I remember a digital to next being a runner up prize on a kids game show back then (Uh-Oh) and they used that motto.
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