PULSAR WATCHES

Pulsar Watches

Pulsar Watches has been an innovator from the beginning. The first Pulsar timepiece came out in 1972 and was the first electronic digital watch in the world. It also was the first watch to use an LED display, placing it at the forefront of the industry at the time. Pulsar's acquisition by Seiko in 1978 only served to solidify its role as an emerging style leader in the designer watch industry.

Today Pulsar is still a style trendsetter, featuring elegant designs ranging from large sport watches to slimmer ladies' models. Some watchmakers pride themselves on their technological expertise and display it by designing progressively weirder timepieces, but Pulsar seems to have returned to an elegant conventionality with its beautiful treatments of the standard central-axis dial.

The men's sport watches have wide, round dials for easy visibility. Tachymeter bezels surround these dual-dial chronographs, which have minute and hour markers and small second hands. Cases and bezels are of polished metal with the chronograph buttons angled into the curve on either side of the crown. While there is something to be said for futuristic timepieces, the creations of Pulsar Watches seem to be harking back to an older standard.

Outside the sport category, the men's lines feature both round and rectangular dials of substantial size, generally 43 or 44 millimetres in width and as much as 13 millimetres in depth. The bands and bracelets are correspondingly hefty, giving these watches an air of solidity and competence.

Ladies' selections are smaller with a range of shapes from round to oval and rectangular. Cases are voluptuously curved around the faces, which have slender hands and small, demure hour markers. Some models glitter with baguette diamonds while others use the mellower tones of polished metal to good advantage. Straps of stitched leather or narrow link bracelets complete each composition perfectly. On a few models, the links are circular and connected at the edges, a nice look with the round or oval faces.

Since their acquisition by Seiko, Pulsar's watches have featured that company's quartz movement, so they are as well-made inside as outside. The Seiko Group can always be counted on to produce timepieces of impeccable performance as well as style. Of course, the Pulsar name, an icon since the 1970s, is prominently displayed.


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