Well, baseball season is upon us once again. Not that I give a crap because I don't watch baseball, (or any type of competitive sports for that matter), but I do like this cute child's wrist watch, made in Germany, and sold back in the day for 10¢ at S. S. Kresge Company dime stores --later to become everyone's favorite blue-light beacon of bargains-- K-Mart! Highlighted with adorable art on the backing card, as well as the watch face itself, and features "moving hands" coming right out the batter's jockstrap! I guess you couldn't get any more on the nose by naming the product "Baseball Watch", because, I mean, that's exactly what it is... a baseball themed wrist watch.
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57 years old and it looks almost brand new. Someone must have bought this, put it away, forgot where they put it, then found it decades later.
This is the type of toy one will find in the dollar stores today, though the art on the package is much better quality.
That's really interesting. I remember that when I was a kid myself, many watches for kids were, you know, real watches. Just with kid's stuff printed on them. Or they were games, maybe. (Also they cost more than ten cents!) At the same time, other kinds of toy things--tools, food, ovens, lawnmowers, guns--were not real, just playtime props. So I'm not sure why I was surprised to see this watch is also just pretend. But I was surprised. It costs so little to make a watch.
It's cool, though. It may be even more interesting because it doesn't actually tell time. When I was very young, I cosplayed with my grandfather's castoff wristwatches. They were all man-sized, each charred amber with cigarette smoke, and had those gold-colored metal elastic bands. They also did not tell time.
Wow, a non-functional 10 cent "toy" watch. I never saw anything like this, it's a real question who would want this.
I'm guessing the latch is plastic and band are plastic? That's so interesting, just in concept. Like Mr. Cavin, I'm completely surprised by this item!
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