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Welcome to the seventh short from Flip Clock Fans - our ongoing quest to eventually display all the flip clocks in the Flip Clock Fans Collection. Here we feature the classic Copal Caslon 101.
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Videos of interest related to the Copal 101
The Caslon 101 Flip Clock - Japan's first digital clock
youtu.be/j-HUKwBb0n8
An Historic Flip Clock Journal and Discovery of a Rare Flip Clock
youtu.be/EcYBT6P0Kcg
Repairing a very early Japanese Blue-Grey Copal 101
youtu.be/YibA6TAdM5c
The Computer Age Flip Clock - The Copal Caslon 101
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The Copal Caslon 101 - Japan's first digital clock.
The Copal 101 was introduced to the world in 1965 by the Copal Company.
Now known as The Nidec Copal Corporation, the company began operation in 1946, with the production of photographic shutters which remain the company's best-known product. The company to this day is a well established manufacturer of optical, electronic and mechanical equipment, still, primarily for the photographic industry.
The designer of the Copal Calson 101 was the world renowned designer, Riki Wantanabe.
Riki Wantanabe 渡辺力 (1911 - 2013) was a distinguished Japanese industrial designer who passed away in 2013 at 101 years of age. Considered a pioneer of post-Second World War Japanese design in a time when the word or concept of "design" was little used in Japan, Wantanabe was initially made famous by furniture design. The Watanabe name eventually also became established and well respected in the clock and watch design world.
In 1964 Wantanabe designed the COPAL Caslon (キャスロン) 101. As described by Wantanabe, the clock is a leaf type table clock made by applying camera shutter and motor technology. A typeface called Caslon was used for the digits, from which the product derives it's model name.
The Copal Caslon 101 could be considered the flip clock started US flip clock proliferation of the 1970s. The Copal flip clock mechanisms are without question considered to be the best in the flip clock community, and many brands of flip clocks use these mechanism.
While it seems that the slightly larger Copal Caslon 201 may have been the first flip clock to made a splash in the United States, It was the Caslon 101, as Japan's first flip clock, that set the stage for what was to follow in the 1970s - the decade of the flip clock.
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Welcome to the seventh short from Flip Clock Fans - our ongoing quest to eventually display all the flip clocks in the Flip Clock Fans Collection. Here we feature the classic Copal Caslon 101.
Subscribe for more flip clocks.
Visit our channel:
youtube.com/c/Flipclockfans
Videos of interest related to the Copal 101
The Caslon 101 Flip Clock - Japan's first digital clock
youtu.be/j-HUKwBb0n8
An Historic Flip Clock Journal and Discovery of a Rare Flip Clock
youtu.be/EcYBT6P0Kcg
Repairing a very early Japanese Blue-Grey Copal 101
youtu.be/YibA6TAdM5c
The Computer Age Flip Clock - The Copal Caslon 101
youtu.be/pulZ_1NdigY
The Copal Caslon 101 - Japan's first digital clock.
The Copal 101 was introduced to the world in 1965 by the Copal Company.
Now known as The Nidec Copal Corporation, the company began operation in 1946, with the production of photographic shutters which remain the company's best-known product. The company to this day is a well established manufacturer of optical, electronic and mechanical equipment, still, primarily for the photographic industry.
The designer of the Copal Calson 101 was the world renowned designer, Riki Wantanabe.
Riki Wantanabe 渡辺力 (1911 - 2013) was a distinguished Japanese industrial designer who passed away in 2013 at 101 years of age. Considered a pioneer of post-Second World War Japanese design in a time when the word or concept of "design" was little used in Japan, Wantanabe was initially made famous by furniture design. The Watanabe name eventually also became established and well respected in the clock and watch design world.
In 1964 Wantanabe designed the COPAL Caslon (キャスロン) 101. As described by Wantanabe, the clock is a leaf type table clock made by applying camera shutter and motor technology. A typeface called Caslon was used for the digits, from which the product derives it's model name.
The Copal Caslon 101 could be considered the flip clock started US flip clock proliferation of the 1970s. The Copal flip clock mechanisms are without question considered to be the best in the flip clock community, and many brands of flip clocks use these mechanism.
While it seems that the slightly larger Copal Caslon 201 may have been the first flip clock to made a splash in the United States, It was the Caslon 101, as Japan's first flip clock, that set the stage for what was to follow in the 1970s - the decade of the flip clock.
#shorts
