June 2020 "Art of Pride" watch from Timex x Todd Snyder.
An homage to a classic 1977 "Color Flicks" Timex model.
Mechanical, hand-wound!
Hi. This is Alan. Thanks for reading. My contact information is at the bottom. Here is a fun and very colorful Timex, based on a 1970s original (one example, and here's another example). This new watch, with a hand-wound mechanical movement, was released by Timex in June 2020, and sold exclusively through Todd Snyder New York, limited edition.
Instead of having a seconds hand, there is a tri-colored disc that rotates with the seconds. The dial is also equally divided into three colors, 120 degrees for each color . As the seconds disc rotates, and the various colors of the disc overlap with the dial colors, various "secondary" colors are created.
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My favorite appearance is there is just a few degrees of color change like this. I'll show many different iterations. I hope it's not boring or redundant. You can just scroll past them.
The rainbow flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, and gay rights activist. At the time, the pink triangle was adopted. This symbol had its origin as an oppressive symbol used by the Nazis during WWII, though it was reclaimed in the 1970s as a symbol protesting discrimination, and later as a symbol of identity. Nevertheless, some at the time, including San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk, wished to have what they saw as a more positive symbol. Some of Baker's friends encouraged him to create a new symbol. Baker then, with the help of his friend Lynn Segerblom who created the original fabric dying process, created flags using a Singer sewing machine. Thirty volunteers also helped to dye and stitch the flags.
The flags first flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978. The original flags, one of which is shown above, had eight colors. (Since then, the pink and the turquoise have been removed for practical reasons, including that pink was a rare and expensive fabric and/or color to obtain at the time.)
Case back. Watch is all steel, with an acrylic crystal. It uses the same case used for the hand-wound Marlin, released November 2017, which skyrocketed to sensational fame as the first handwinding mechanical watch Timex made in quite a long time. This case is based on an original 1965 Timex Marlin model, and the re-creation of the case is superbly in its detail. Model is TW2T83100. The 77 refers to production date May 2020. It's fun that the original Color Flicks was from 1977, but this is just a fun coincidence. Water resistant 30 meters. I'm not sure what is MOOF. Lugs are drilled through, like the original 1965, which you can partially see here.
The box is attractive and nicely designed. The design emulates the watch pattern of color effects.
Strap is braided black nylon. Steel buckle and hardware, signed TIMEX.
"A color wheel or color circle[1] is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc."
Above: "Boutet's 7-color and 12-color color circles from 1708."
Side view of case. Drilled lugs are well seen. Slightly fancy lugs.
1977! Above, and the next three photos below are of the dial/hands/movement removed from the case of a 1977 original. You can see the disk really well in the oblique view. The colors are really quite rich.
Don't miss the two pages I've made on the original, 1970s Color Flicks watch!
Thank you for reading.
I hope you will like it.
Alan
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