Timothy Leary vintage wristwatch on eBay

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/25/timothy-leary-vintage-wristwat.html

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9:00 is as far as I would go.

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Wait a sec. Aren’t “meth” (10 pm) and “speed” (11 pm) the same thing?

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I don’t think MDMA was common in 1970 when this watch was made. And “4:20” was coined in 1971.

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Was this manufactured by the Sackler Watch Company?

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  • List itetmT[quote=“noahdjango, post:7, topic:143181, full:true”]
    funny how the case is suggestive of Patek Phillipe, among the highest of high-class horology; while the dial is, from a design perspective, a chaotic jumble of trying to squeeze 2 illustrations, 12 drug references, and 3 typefaces onto a space about the size of a quarter – amatuerish in the extreme. Any cool points (and it is pretty cool) are erased by negative style points, IMO.

also, what the hell is UPS?
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Probably not. Then it would just be all opioids and the drugs to get you of off opioids…

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Well it gets its coolpoints back nowadays for its rarity and for being so extremely specific.
But yeah, the dial’s design is nightmarish.

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UPS are amphetamines. But why is young Arnold Schwarzenegger/Strong on the dial and not ROIDS?

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“UPS” is presumably uppers, stimulants, vs “DOWNS,” or soporifics, at the 6:00 position.

And who knew there was a live market for Leary memorabilia? “Legend of a Mind” by the Moody Blues was always enough for me.

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