Casio’s CA-500 line of watches is a series of digital calculator watches meant to emulate a vintage aesthetic for the modern day. But recently, they’ve released a variant that’s got us asking: Does this really count as vintage? Because to a time traveller, everything can be retro and modern at the same time.
That’s right, this is a version of the CA-500, the CA-500WEBF-1A, that’s based on Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future. The watch was made in collaboration with Universal Products & Experiences, an arm of Universal Studios which distributed the original trilogy of films.
It’s crazy to think that such a classic movie was released 40 years ago, and this watch marks exactly that occasion. Apart from the metallic finish adapted from the DeLorean, the watch takes its cues from the time machine’s ‘OUTATIME’ license plate and time circuit display that showed the DeLorean’s present and destination time. The back of the watch also has an engraving of a flux capacitor, to make it look even more like a time machine itself.
