How about the Rolex Oysterquartz that never was? The elusive Rolex LED described in the upcoming English translation of "
Electrifying the Wristwatch" by Lucien F. Trueb, Gunther Ramm, and Peter Wenzig.
As the story goes (I read this on another forum late last year) Patrick Heiniger rejected an engineering project after 5 prototypes of a 5055 driven LED watch were made in the late '70s. There you have it, an Oysterquartz Analog LED watch that never saw the light of day - supposedly all 5 prototypes were destroyed...or were they?
Poorly scanned pic from the original German book, Die Elektrifzierung des Armbanduhr.
