Pulsar Watch Brand Now At The Watchery

Pulsar PXT668 Leather Strap White Mother-of-Pearl Dial Leather Women's Watch

One thing about Pulsar watches is the infusion of unbridled young energy. Pulsar is definitely a watch brand for people on the go; people who run from meeting to meeting ideas swimming uncharted around their mind. The watches are really affordable ,and with THE WATCHERY's amazing discounts, run under $100.00. Check out this lovely model I have chosen to display. The white rubber strap compliments a bold mother-of-pearl dial surrounded by a stainless steel gold-plaited bezel and watch case. This would make a great Valentines Day Gift. I like this watch; it exudes a sense of fresh airy freedom.

Pulsar is an interesting company. It is a brand of Seiko Watch Cooperation of America (SCA). Most of its watches are crafted utilizing the tradition analog display; however, its claim to fame is the world's first electronic digital watch. In 1970 the first Pulsar prototype was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data. The head of Hamilton's Pulsar division, John Bergey, was inspired to produce the Pulsar from a 1968 sci fi movie - 2001: A Space Odyssey. This idea was not so far fetched since it was Hamilton who had been commissioned to make the futuristic digital clock for the movie. On April 4th, 1972, the Pulsar was unveiled in 18 carat gold at $2,100 a piece. The numbers were red light-emitting diode or best known as LED.

Pulsar and Hamilton Watches are available at THE WATCHERY for a fraction of the list price. Surprise your Beloved Valentine and give a gift that never runs out of time.

R.Van Halem

What is an Analog Watch!

An analog watch is what we think of as the traditional watch, where time is indicated with the use of hands sweeping around a dial. Most watches and clocks are analog. The reference to an analog watch is a retronym, a term created after an object or concept has been introduced, to differentiate it and the newer object.

Thus the reference to an analog watch was commonly used after the production of the first digital watch display in 1972 by The Hamilton Watch Co of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The term analog or analogue refers to the representation of another concept or object, while preserving the main perceptual features of whatever is being presented for the physical stimuli in the environment. Thus the movements of the hands of an analogue watch are analogous to the passage of time. Many watches such as the Movado Museum Watch Collections have no numbers at all, and Franck Muller Crazy Hour Watch has the numbers in a haphazard, non-sequential display. Franck Muller's watch is extremely popular proving the fact that a watch with hands is truly analogues and does not even require symbolic numbers or numbers in the correct place.

A digital watch with its numbers is more of a symbolic representation of time. The numbers have been chosen arbitrarily to stand for something and does not perceptually resemble whatever is being represented. The numbers on a digital watch such as a "2" is a symbol for the concept of twoness and represents the quantity of two, but nothing about the symbol would suggest the meaning.

Watches featuring moon phases and Christiaan van der Klaauw's astrolobes are indeed an excellent miniature representation of the real heavens above, whereas Gerald Genta's retrograde and jumping hour watches is a combination of both symbolic and analog time representation. The retrograde aspect of the watch does represent the passage of time albeit on a liner or curvilinear scale whereas the jumping hours are completely symbolic and have no concrete representation to the actual flow of time.

In recent years, the amount of different representations of time have skyrocketed. Watch companies are unveiling new and innovative ideas, some of which completely restructure our perception of time display, such as Urwerk's masterpieces or Romaine Jerome's watches.

Time is abstract, and yet the most real. The possibilities in representing the passage of time are only limited by the imaginations of the human mind.