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Without going too hard into a historical deep dive, digital LED (light emitting diode) watches burst onto the scene in the early ‘70s with the advent of the solid gold Pulsar PSR, which retailed for an eye-watering $2,100 (nearly $15,000 in today’s dollars). But is the Yema $200 better than the Armitron? My wallet says no. They’re both neat little slices of retro heaven (and functionally similar), with the tonneau-shaped Armitron sporting a smallish case size at 34mm across and 37mm lug-to-lug. At that price, you could pick up seven of the eight versions Armitron offers for around the same price as its closest competition, the stylishly angular Yema LED, which goes for $249 in stainless, or $279 in goldtone. I don’t know how Armitron did it, but here we have an astonishingly well-made stainless-cased LED watch at an unbelievable price, $35 in my case, which was basically the loose change lingering in my PayPal. I mean, it’s got to be a flimsy, lightweight toy, right? Wrong. The retail price of the watch above is a mere $60 USD, but get this: I got mine for a stupefying $35 from our digital overlords at Amazon, and I’ve seen the same model with the blue display for an unreal $29. Once you hold one in hand, you’d think the retail would be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $150-$200. But here’s the Armitron Griffy, a fun and funky little gem of a retro LED watch, with a build quality that belies its bargain-bin price. In a world where prices seem to climb in a never-ending upward spiral, it’s nice when you run across something that, against all odds, defies economic trends and sheer logic with its value. I/trending 11111 I spent $35 on a digital LED watch that had no right being this good: The Armitron Griffy D.C.