Sunday, August 16, 2020

Vintage Advertising Food Related (K - Q) Character Watches

It's always time for character watches...Watches with Character.

Vintage Advertising Food Related (K - Q) Character Watches

Vintage Keebler Elf, KIX cereal, Kool-Aid, Life Savers, Major Moon, Mr. Peanut, Nestle Cookie, Oster Appliance man, Pappy Parker, Peter Pan Peanut Butter, Popsicle/Fudgesicle, Punchy, Quiky Nesquik Bunny character watches.

For part one of Vintage Advertising Food Related (A - B) Character Watches, click here

For part two of  Vintage Advertising Food Related (C) Character Watches, click here

For part three of  Vintage Advertising Food Related (D - J) Character Watches, click here.  

For part five of Vintage Advertising Food Related (R - Z) Character Watches, click here.

 

Advertising Character watches mostly took off in the 70's & 80's as shown below in alpha order. 

In the 1980's, Custom Time produced this Keebler Elf watch with a Swiss movement. Here you have Ernie the Keebler Elf dressed for work in his orange and yellow hat, green jacket and yellow pants and shoes on a white background and black numbers, black minute marks, black hands and a black second hand to tell the time. It came with a large 70's MOD style wrist band. These came in plain boxes.   

Here is a KIX cereal watch made by Lafayette Watch Company that was a give away back in the 1970s to promote soccer. A red and white soccer ball on a white background with black numbers, black hands and a red second hand to tell the time. Marked Made in Hong Kong.

 In the 1970's, Sindaco LTD produced this Kool-Aid watch with a Swiss movement. Here you have the pitcher filled Kool-Aid man running with a huge smile practically shouting, "OH YEAH!" on a white background with black numbers, black minute marks, black hands and a black second hand to tell the time. He came in a plan box with a large MOD band. Hard to find today.

In 1992, Market USA produced this Life Savers 80th anniversary watch. A manual wind but in a plastic case. I've never seen another one, but they must be out there. It has a picture of Life Savers at the 3,6,9,& 12 positions and says "80 delicious years" on a white background with black numbers and black hands to tell the time.


  In the 1970's we have this Major Moon for Moonstone Cereal watch for Ralston Cereals with a Swiss movement. This rarely known cereal character is dressed in his usual Major uniform with hat and came in a plain box with see through plastic and a large 70's MOD wrist band. The Major is on a white background holding his name with black numbers, black minute marks, black hands including a black second hand to tell the time.

From the late 60's, earlier 70's by Agon Chromatic Watch Corp. we have this slightly different (from Page one example) Mr. Peanut with a one jewel Swiss movement. Basically, same as the older version with slightly different case, a huge 70's modern "MOD" wrist band. Smiling Mr. Peanut is the best nut around on a yellow background with black numbers, his gloved hands and a black second hand to tell the time along with a date window to tell the month date. Capital also put out a NON date watch as shown below in the box.

These came in nice simple presentation boxes. This is the one made by Capital, non date.

In the 1970's, Custom Time Corp. produced this Mr. Peanut "jump hour” watch with a one jewel movement, Swiss made and rarer today then the regular watch.  Very nicely painted face with a deep soothing blue background and smartly dressed Mr. Peanut posing next to the time display. Who wouldn't want one of these!

 

Again, in the 1970's, Lafayette Watch Co. produced this Nestle Cookie Mix watch, Swiss made with just a picture of a cookie on the face on a white background, with brown numbers and brown hands to tell the time. It's always time for cookies at my home.

Here is a 1970's Oster Appliance man. This 17 jewel American Standard movement has the blond Oster repair man flying with tools in hand wearing his super blue tights & boots with a yellow belt and "Oster Man" written across his chest on a white sky background with some night sky showing with white and blue minute marks and gold hands including a gold second hand to tell the time.

In the late 70's or early 80's, Basis Watch produced this Pappy Parker's restaurant watch, one jewel Swiss made with the prospector on it which was used to advertise by their owner the Roy Rogers Franchise Company, LLC. Pappy's face and large hat sit on a bright yellow background with black numbers, red minute marks and black hands to tell the time.

Here we have an awesome Peter Pan Peanut Butter "magic" watch from the 1970s. Peter Pan Peanut Butter was the first branded peanut butter in the U.S. The magic is it fades to black and then back to showing Peter Pan every 30 seconds. Although hard to photograph, you can clearly see a freckled faced smiling red haired Peter Pan wearing his green felt hat with a big yellow feather and his green shirt with white hands and an orange second hand to tell the time. Made in Hong Kong by Remex, one jewel.
This rare find from the 1970s was produced by Argon Chromatic Watch Corp. for Popsicle, a Good Humor-Breyers brand which makes Popsicles and Fugesicles. It has white numbers on a bright red circle with a bright yellow smaller circle in the middle. The minute hand is a red and orange two stick Popsicle while the hour hand is a smaller Fudgesicle and came with a date calendar window. Marked Swiss made, PI. What a great find!

In the 1970's, Saxony Watch Company produced this Punchy Hawaiian one jewel Swiss made movement NO second hand on this one, but some have them with grinning Punchy holding his Hawaiian punch can, wearing his red hat and blue and white striped shirt and his arms to tell the time all on a white background with black numbers and black minute marks.
 Also in the 1970's this second version was produced for Punchy Hawaiian, again with a Swiss movement, this time marked Hong Kong dial on the front. More Cartoonish numbers then previous version and bright yellow background, this time with a smiling Punchy, arms reaching out and NOT moving, just regular silver watch hands and a red second hand to tell the time.
 Also in the 1970s, Macky Watch Co and Sonlenn Trading company produced this Punchy Hawaiian  "jump hour" watch with a Swiss movement & typical large 70's MOD band. This time Punchy is grinning again and holding his drink on a white background. Very hard to find today especially working, you'll need to have your expert watch repair person to attend to these.
1970's Quiky the Nesquick bunny for Nestle. This amazing watch has Smiling Quiky clearly happy and full of chocolate flavored milk with his tongue sticking out a little on a white back ground with black numbers, black minute marks, a black second hand and his brown arms to tell the time. Marked Swiss made, internally marked 21 jewel Claro Watch, case marked Sindaco LTD. A super rare find today.


For more Information on Watches see:
The National Watch and Clock Museum:  https://nawcc.org/index.php/museum

The West Coast Clock & watch museum https://www.agsem.com/West-Coast-Clock-and-Watch-Museum.php which is located at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum http://www.agsem.com/
 

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It's always time for character watches...Watches with Character.

 

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