Pulsar P2 Owner Review : Outdated, authentic and discreet

After buying my Pulsar P2 Date somewhat by chance, I realized that the best-known Pulsar LED was actually the single-button version. The little extra being that James Bond (Roger Moore) wore it in "Live and Let Die" (1973). Having found a "watchmaker" specializing in electronic and LED watches, I didn't hesitate to buy it when I saw a defective one for sale on the online auction site Interenchères. It's really a very nice watch that raises a lot of questions from people who notice it... especially when you want to read the time. Because yes, it's not practical at all, because you have to look at it then press the button and display the time! It seems subtle but in fact, you have to have both hands available to be able to read the time... Not the right watch for going shopping and coming back with both hands busy carrying your shopping bags. But frankly that's not the point... The thing, at least mine, is to wonder about the place that this watch had in the watch industry. An essential place at the beginning of the 70s, a period particularly animated by the jolts of multiple innovations aimed at replacing the mechanical watch. Fairchild, the major semiconductor manufacturer of the time (as well as the better known Texas Instruments) developed strongly on this technology in watchmaking, calculators and other electronic products that were developing at the time... Unfortunately this technology was expensive to produce, unreliable and above all very energy-consuming. Imagine that an LED watch like this Pulsar was sold as expensive or more than many brands of Swiss watches already venerable at the time... This technology did not survive, it too, the wave of digital quartz with LCD cheaper to produce. One of the characteristics of this watch – like the Pulsar P2 Date – is its very particular time setting system. This is done using a small magnet (stored inside the folding clasp) to be placed on the case back, in one of the two notches Hours, Minutes… A completely outdated and confusing thing! A beautiful collector's watch forming a superb pair with my Pulsar P2 Date bought a few years before. The path, always the path that leads you from one watch to another...