Watch, wrist
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- OBJECT TYPE
- digital/men's/multifunction/pager
- DATE
- 1997
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0386.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Beepwear
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 836CG22792
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Synthetic and metal watch Montre-bracelet en synthétique et métal
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.8 cm
- Width
- 6.3 cm
- Height
- 4.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Horology
- Category
- Watches
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- ca. 1997-unknown/inconnu
- Canada
-
Marketed to “Generation X” as cutting edge technology, the Beepwear is likely the first pager-watch in Canada to combine the functions of a pager and the portability of a wrist watch. It comes with Timex’s “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!” guarantee. Présentée à la "génération X" comme une technologie de pointe, la Beepwear est probablement la première montre-téléavertisseur au Canada à combiner les fonctions d'un téléavertisseur et la portabilité d'une montre-bracelet. Elle est assortie de la garantie Timex "Prend une raclée et continue à faire tic-tac". - Function
-
A pager watch which combines numeric and word paging with the features of a digital wrist watch. Une montre téléavertisseur qui combine la téléavertissement numérique et textuel avec les caractéristiques d'une montre-bracelet numérique. - Technical
-
Operating on Motorola’s FLEX one-way paging network on freq. 931.7375 MHz, the Timex/Motorola Beepwear pager watch holds up to sixteen, 104-character alphanumeric messages, plus 3 information services, new page reminders, group and duplicate messages. The watch functions include time, date, day of week, two time zones, stopwatch, alarm and an “Indiglo” night light function. The watch-pager weighs 1.3 ounces. The wrist band can be taken off and the watch worn as a locket or on a belt clip. Fonctionnant sur le réseau de radiomessagerie unidirectionnel FLEX de Motorola sur la fréquence 931,7375 MHz, la montre-téléavertisseur Timex/Motorola Beepwear peut contenir jusqu'à seize messages alphanumériques de 104 caractères, ainsi que trois services d'information, des rappels de nouvelles pages, des messages de groupe et des messages en double. Les fonctions de la montre comprennent l'heure, la date, le jour de la semaine, deux fuseaux horaires, un chronomètre, une alarme et une fonction d'éclairage nocturne "Indiglo". La montre-téléavertisseur pèse 1,3 once. Le bracelet peut être retiré et la montre portée comme médaillon ou sur un clip ceinture. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- On the face of the watch: "FUNCTION/ MODE/ INDIGLO/ READ/ TIMEX/ beepwear/ [logo] MOTOROLA/ beepwear"/ Printed on the proper back: "CAP 3E1075226/ SERIAL# 836CG22792/ FREQ. 931.7375/ [logo]/ FLEX/ CAN: MTXMA 109102905/ BATTERY# 675/ PHILIPPINES/ TIMEX/ [logo]/ MOTOROLA"
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Black strap and watch back with a silver-coloured and yellow face with a green screen.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Watch, wrist, circa 1997, Artifact no. 2013.0386, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0386.001/
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