Steamboat Willie Camper Watch, from Japan Disney x Japan TIMEX
Hi, this is Alan. Contact info below. Here is a November 2018 Mickey Mouse / Steamboat Willie Camper Watch by TIMEX, made in collaboration with Disney Japan. As far as I know, it is available exclusively from Disney Japan. Like all of the many other Camper collaborations since Original Camper was brought back to life by TIMEX Japan in November 2015, it uses that template as a "base model," upon with the design is built.
The watch was released at Disneyworld Japan on 18 November, 2018, to coincide the the 90th anniversary of the release of the ~ 8 minute cartoon "Steamboat Willie," released on the same day, in 1928. I received this watch in the US, as part of a pre-release, and it arrived on 19 November.
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As with all of these exclusives, it comes with a good quality box decorated on the outer and inner boxes. Here is the outer box.
Mickey Mouse, as the character Steamboat Willie is featured, smiling, and wearing a hat. The minute hand is longer than the hour hand, of course, and the hand may be very slightly larger. Simple sans-serif font for the hours, MICKEY MOUSE between 6 and 8, and TIMEX medial to the 3. Grey triangles at the hours, and simple hashes everywhere else.
The entire watch, case, strap, are all in shades of grey, like the original b & w cartoon.
The watch is supplied with an 18 mm reversible nylon strap. One side is grey, the other is black. Both sides have lettering and design. "Reversible," but not instantly so; the buckle would need to be reversed each time you change direction.
Back of the caseback, showing all the details. The 58 refers to manufacture in October, 2018. The model number, as best as I can read it, is TW2T34400
Opening the presentation box. These are "book proportion" boxes, with a lid that opens up like a right-side-opening book.
Details on both sides of the strap. I think I prefer the black side, as in the below pic.
Inner box, above. When you open it up, and look from the back, below.
The Original Camper November 2015 was made in China, with a Japanese quartz movement. Since then, they have been assembled in the Philippines. I don't know for certain, as I have not opened up the case, but the movement probably looks like the below pic of another Camper.
Strap is is signed © DISNEY, at the buckle. Buckle is black metal.
Outer box design. I am not sure if you've noticed, but aside from the blue hyperlinks, everything on this page is greyscale. The watch itself is greyscale, but I converted all of the photos to greyscale as well, to remove all incidental colors. Also, this design was golden color, and inside the box was a gold color cardboard backing. But otherwise there wasn't really any color to this product. I just thought it would be fun to do this.
Let's not forget with all the hoopla, that this watch is a derivation of the Original Camper. Fixed lug, resin/plastic case and snap-on caseback, 36 mm diameter, quartz movement.
