The Timex T80 has always been a time machine in the most literal sense: a watch that hauls you straight back to the 1980s every time you glance at your wrist. It does not try to hide this. The chunky rectangular case, the segmented digital display, the single-press INDIGLO backlight: all of it reads as

Charge it with light, never swap the battery, forget it’s even there. Most of them quietly break that promise the moment you rotate your collection, spend a week under office fluorescents, or leave a piece in the drawer for a month. You come back and it’s stopped at 4:17 and you have no idea when.