Comments on: It’s always time to be cool https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/its-always-time-to-be-coo/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Anonymous https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2987 Tue, 26 May 2009 15:31:51 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2008/12/11/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2987 This thing has been stuck in the back of my head for years. I believe it went:
“Teeter Totter
Teeter Totter
The wonderful watch you’ll watch for hours
Just for the fun of watching a watch
And it keeps time too!”

Didn’t have one then. Bought one a few years ago at a flea market. I had the Hot Wheels watch on the right in the picture. It still keeps good time.

]]> By: Dancin' Homer https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2341 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:25:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2008/12/11/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2341 These remind me of the one watch I had as a kid. It was called the Teeter Totter watch. The face part of the watch was so thick, it was like wearing a pillbox on your wrist. You like wide straps, Wurwolf? This thing’s strap was huge. The best I could do at finding an image is to search “Teeter Totter Watch” on Ebay, where there are currently 3 for sale at ridiculous prices.

While Googling the item, I came across a Wiki page for the inventor, which contained the following info:

“Bruce A.Kock was well known for creating the financially successful Teeter Totter Watch. This unique watch, a children’s toy capable of keeping accurate time, is the only watch with traditional moving parts ever produced entirely of plastic.”

I never knew that it held such distinction in the watch world!

I think it was filled with water too. Unless I’m having a manufactured flashback I believe the commercial jingle even said:
“Teeter Totter
Teeter Totter
The wonderful watch
That runs on water”

I still can remember the tune, but unfortunately can’t find it on Youtube.

]]> By: wurwolf https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2338 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:35:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2008/12/11/its-always-time-to-be-coo/#comment-2338 Holy smokes…. these watches are epic in their awesomeness. I have been wanting a more grown-up version of watches like these for ages. In this age of stainless steel watch bands, there’s just something so comforting about a watch with an interchangeable face and a band made out of wide leather, isn’t there?

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