Time,

for me it goes so fast,

 and with that in mind I noticed a few products to help see how time passes, firstly this watch featuring a precision instrument that most people under the age of 50 will never have used, a slide rule,

which has a fascinating history in itself, but this instrument is brought to you on a watch, the 'Caliper Slide View' combines a self-winding mechanical watch with this icon of pre-electronic technology, the circular slide rule allows you to multiply and divide numbers, You can also set it up as a handy conversion tool for units of measure or currencies and indeed in the day slide rules were made with specific uses in mind, you could buy them for specific applications such as chemistry, surveying, electricity and electronics, artillery ranging, hydraulics, steam and internal combustion engines, concrete and steel structures, radio and other special fields, all now gone forever, until this watch came along,

 I decided to keep looking back in time with this Oscilloscope clock, which uses a cathode ray tube to display the time,

of course anyone can have an electric clock with displays like lcd, plasma and now led, but remembering when as a kid in the 1950s the 7" or 9" cathode ray tube television we used to watch, this has got to be the way to go!

 which brings me on to those pre-transistor days, when valves ruled the airwaves, Bulb, a retro valve clock,

I guess in America they are called bulbs, but in the UK they were called valves, again going back to the 1950/60s when ever the television stopped working, which it often did, a technician, or the bloke with the suitcase as we would call him then, would arrive at your house with literally a suitcase full of valves, he would take the offending broken one out and replace it, and no I am not on commission, I was just thinking how time flies, those were the days, or were they?