Yesterware

Nothing can ruin art and inspiration like money can When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, our science textbook at school featured a picture of the Seiko T001. https://museum.syssrc.com/artifact/mobile/900/ I can't recall if that's the first place I laid eyes on one, but I remember becoming almost obsessed with it.  I later saw the watch featured in the movie Dragnet, and much later (though it was a much older film) in the film Octopussy. There are plenty of sites such as the one above that tell the story of the watch much better than I can, so I'm not going to duplicate that effort.  The truth is I didn't really know the history of the watch and it didn't much matter to me either.  The fact of the matter is that in 1982 Seiko made a working television screen the size of a wristwatch face. When I was young, the miniaturization of technology was awe inspiring.  It opened our eyes to what was possible and made an incredible promise out of the future.  It f