For Its Latest Reissue, Timex Picked Up the Phone

It only makes sense that Timex would dig up another treasure from its storied history in the form of the Rotary Phone Dial reissue, which was originally crafted in 1976. It’s easy to imagine that a watch inspired by a telephone on your wrist was an Apple-era invention, but Timex has Tim Cook beat by five decades. The Rotary watch has a black dial and circular arrangement of numerals designed to mimic the finger holes of, well, a rotary phone. And in the last 50 years, that idiosyncratic