There are objects from the past designed for the future. Seen today, that is to say in the future that those who created those objects had imagined, they make us understand something of how we were and how we have become. These objects are defined retro-futuristic. It is a label that can be applied to cars like the Lancia Stratos Prototype Zero, to furnishing objects such as the 832 Luisa armchair, or to lamps Tolomeo o Eclipse di Artemide.
Of course, even among wristwatches it is possible to identify models that have been able to anticipate the times and become stylistic reference points, still able to inspire those who design the present. We have selected for you three timepieces that share three characteristics: it is the digital watches, still in production and come on prices not prohibitive. Because style doesn't have to be exclusive.
Hamilton American Classic PSR Digital Quartz
Il first watch with technology a LED of history, the Hamilton Pulsar, it made its debut in 1972. It is such an innovative timepiece that personalities of the caliber of Gianni Agnelli they literally fake cards to be the first to own one. In the context of the quartz crisis, the Pulsar appears to be a successful attempt by a company hitherto anchored to traditional timepieces - remember that the "bread and butter" of Hamilton was, and perhaps still is, the Khaki - which allows the watchmaker to stay on the crest of the wave. Today the Pulsar is back in production with the long name of "American Classic PSR Digital Quartz“, And is available in a steel color or black PVD version.
Bulova Computron
If the Press was an innovative choice of a traditionalist house, the Computron di Bulova instead it represents one of the apexes in the innovation of a house that has made research its distinctive feature. The oscillator al quartz, in its present form of a tuning fork, which still today is the basis of the functioning of electronic watches, it was invented just from Bulova commissioned by the US Department of Defense.
Il Bulova Computron it remains, fifty years after its introduction, an object that strikes for its own futuristic aesthetics. Un angular ingot which, especially in the golden version, catapults us into a past so evocative that it still flashes flashes of a future that never happened.
Casio CA53W Twincept Databank
This Cassius, worn by Michael J. Fox in the 1985 film "Ritorno al futuro“, Is perhaps the most ordinary on our list, the one that most easily goes unnoticed. However, it is a watch that, beyond participation in an iconic film of the the eighties, has the ability to still be current in style. For a few tens of euros you can put an object on your wrist that takes us back to the times when a watch that integrates a calculator it really felt like something futuristic. And indeed, on closer inspection, how many watches today are able to offer this function?
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