Modern Dick Tracy Watch

New Modern 2018 Dick Tracy Watch

This incredible peace of artwork has been inspired by the old Dick Tracy watch, a remarkable example of  the futuristic technology with radio, popular since the first comic book appearance in 1937. Conceived by two brothers – Nick and Charlie Mathis, and designed by Nick, this modern piece of art is a fine blend of the original iconic Dick Tracy gadget with the comfort of a high quality modern watch for every occasion.

The detective Dick Tracy is one of the most famous heroes of comic strip Dick Tracy. After 8 decades, the detective is still in good health. He remains a regular feature in any popular comics list since its first appearance in the Dick Tracy Feature Book, published in May 1937 by David McKay Publications. Many more books starred Tracy in the following years.

Nick and Charlie Mathis recall that when they were kids, their mom bought each of them a toy Dick Tracy watch. Obviously, being a toy, the gadget was not well engineered, so they stopped working after a few weeks. The brothers shed a few tears, but since that they decided that a day would come when they would make a great gift to the mankind and make a real Dick Tracy watch features all the functions of the prototype;

Finally, Nick and Charlie offered the very first model of the official Dick Tracy watch in 2016, but that first model was made without a two-way radio. Two years later, in 2018 the company partnered with Elite Manufacturing to engineer a Bluetooth module which could receive and make calls by pairing the watch with your smartphone. Then the company launched a crowdfunding on Indiegogo to manufacture the first real working Dick Tracy. They promise that participants would get the Indiegogo discount.

Dick Tracy Watch rear view. Source of the image: dicktracy.watch.

Dick Tracy Watch Main Features and Functions

The watch features the following main functions:

• Watch Crown: Color matching 316L stainless steel.
• Watch Case: 316L stainless steel.
• Water resistance: Up to 3ATM.
• Dial: White dial with raised indice and dauphone style hands.
• Crystal: Beveled sapphire.
• Brass: Decorative brass radio mesh.
• Case back: Two-piece screw back.
• Strap: Custom black strap, oil tanned leather.
• Strap size: 18R.
• Buckle: Ardillon style, matching stainless steel.
• Buttons: Decorative button, matching the original Dick Tracy watch from the comics.

Note that each watch is uniquely numbered.

Dick Tracy Watch, front view. Source of the image: dicktracy.watch.

A Few More Words about Dick Tracy

In 1939, Dell company started its Black and White Feature Books. Six of the total of fifteen issues featured Dick Tracy. The same year Dick Tracy was the hero in the very first issue of Dell's Four-Color Comics, a publication with around 1,300 issues between 1939 and 1963, and every year the detective came back in a number of issues. In 1941, Dell launched the Large Feature Books series, where Tracy also appeared.

Through many years, Dick Tracy was one of the most popular characters in regular newspaper strips, appearing weekly or on a monthly basis. In 1949, Dick Tracy Monthly comic book series is launched, which were published until 1961 and ran for 145 issues.

He was revived in 1986, when Blackthorne Publishing started to run a new series and later, they produced a movie (in 1990) and the miniseries, True Hearts and Tommy Guns.Dick Tracy character was frequently used as promotional items by various companies.

And for the very long time, Dick Tracy featured his watch, which became one of the most iconic gadgets in American pop culture. Indeed, whenever there was trouble, the yellow jacket-clad detective could be summoned on his radio watch.

For dozens of years, this watch was just a pipe dream. Nowadays we have the likes of the Apple Watch, Pebble, Samsung and many other brands to satisfy our affinity for wrist gadgets, but for those who are dreaming of a real, original smartwatch, Dick Tracy watch is more than a dream.

Dick Tracy Watch Video.