The 1982 Seiko T001 TV Watch – a portable television receiver linked (by wire) to a 3cm LCD watch screen.
Three decades ahead of its time and the technology required to make it viable.
G’wan the Seiko though, in fairness.
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I remember back in 1985 when Argos was this mythical shop “in the north” that sold tons of watches and had a ridiculously large catalogue I used to pour over the watch section looking for watches with the little music icon on them. I loved reading about all the features of the watches, some of them looked great. Casio was the Apple of the day as far as I was concerned. I was only 5 when this Seiko yoke came out and I never heard of it – I would have had a stroke if I saw it.
Here’s one of those watch pages:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lavalampmuseum/3592386335/in/album-72157619206330728/