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The watch for Cricket Connoisseurs

Rolexes and Cartiers may be cool but there is only one watch for a cricket connoisseur.   The Cricket by Revue Thommen.  Introduced in 1947, it is the first acoustic alarm watch.  This one could set you back by $2000.

The joke has it that this Newsweek cover from August 31, 1964 was the first time cricket was featured on a USA magazine cover.   President Johnson wore his favorite Cricket watch for the picture.

 

Cricket on Newsweek 

 

This watch was worn by American Presidents including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhauer and Gerald Ford.   It earned the nickname 'Presidents Watch."   In 1997, RT introduced two new models to celebrate the watch's 50th anniversary: an Anniversary Platinum, and the Cricket 1997.   [Of course, the name has nothing to do with the game, more to do with the loud cricket like shout.  But if you are a cricket fan, would you care?]


Cricket watch 

 



 

 

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