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The Almost Mythical Sinclair FM Radio Watch

By James Grahame

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It's hard to believe gadgets like radio watches were once virtually
impossible experiments in miniaturization. It's also astounding that
companies once sank vast fortunes into the development of such
questionably useful gizmos.

Sinclair Research - creators of the ZX Spectrum and Timex/Sinclair
computers - unveiled a futuristic prototype FM watch in 1984. The
three separate cases hold an LCD watch, piezoelectric speaker and FM
tuner, along with a separate battery compartment in the clasp. The
watch design was spearheaded by Sinclair product design manager
Dagfinn Aksnes, who recalls that Clive Sinclair's casual design brief
was, "Design an FM Radio Watch as small as possible. The watch must
have an integrated speaker and aerial. The aim is to design the first
/smallest integrated FM Radio Watch in the world." Sinclair's partner
TIMEX was selected to manufacture the revolutionary watch.

Unfortunately, Sinclair's precarious financial situation in the mid
1980s caused the project to be canceled after the production of a
mere 11,000 units (the tooling was built to handle an annual
production capacity of 500,000 watches) and only a few remain today.

Read more about Creating the SINCLAIR FM Radio Watch

Posted by James Grahame on February 28, 2007 in Timepieces |
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The Almost Mythical Sinclair FM Radio Watch

Sinclairfm

It's hard to believe gadgets like radio watches were once virtually
impossible experiments in miniaturization. It's also astounding that
companies once sank vast fortunes into the development of such
questionably useful gizmos.

Sinclair Research - creators of the ZX Spectrum and Timex/Sinclair
computers - unveiled a futuristic prototype FM watch in 1984. The
three separate cases hold an LCD watch, piezoelectric speaker and FM
tuner, along with a separate battery compartment in the clasp. The
watch design was spearheaded by Sinclair product design manager
Dagfinn Aksnes, who recalls that Clive Sinclair's casual design brief
was, "Design an FM Radio Watch as small as possible. The watch must
have an integrated speaker and aerial. The aim is to design the first
/smallest integrated FM Radio Watch in the world." Sinclair's partner
TIMEX was selected to manufacture the revolutionary watch.

Unfortunately, Sinclair's precarious financial situation in the mid
1980s caused the project to be canceled after the production of a
mere 11,000 units (the tooling was built to handle an annual
production capacity of 500,000 watches) and only a few remain today.

Read more about Creating the SINCLAIR FM Radio Watch

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