Seiko WristMac, first ever Apple Watch from 1988, up for auction
India Today
The rare Seiko WristMac watch, which was sold back in 1988, is now up for auction on the auction website ComicConnect.
All this while, we thought the Apple Watch, which was launched in 2014, is the first-ever smartwatch launched by Apple. However, the Apple Watch wasn’t the first wearable accessory by the company. The Seiko WristMac is regarded as the first Macintosh wearable accessory. The rare watch, which was sold back in 1988, is now up for auction on the auction website ComicConnect. The wristmac was the most advanced wearables of that time and was worn by the astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis, the description on ComicConnect read.
The auction website has posted images of the Seiko watch. The website says the Seiko Watch, released in Mac, was unveiled 25 years before Apple Watch was introduced. It has been regarded as the first piece of wearable computational technology. The Seiko WristMac, which is now up for auction, comes in its original packaging and has never been sold in the over thirty years since its first release. This means, whoever is going to win the bid will get original packaging. The watch box features the specifications of the watch and contains the original sticker noting the Serial Number.