The Timex T80 has always been a time machine in the most literal sense: a watch that hauls you straight back to the 1980s every time you glance at your wrist. It does not try to hide this. The chunky rectangular case, the segmented digital display, the single-press INDIGLO backlight: all of it reads as a deliberate callback to an era when digital watches were genuinely exciting technology, not retro affectation. Now Timex is doing it again, and this new version makes the original look positively understated.
Price: $109
Where to Buy: Timex, (Basic Model)
The new Timex T80 34mm Resin Strap Watch (TW2Y34100) is available for pre-order directly from Timex at $109. It keeps everything that made the T80 a cult favorite and wraps it in a glossy translucent green resin case with a matching single-piece strap that practically screams 1985.
What Makes This One Different
The original T80 reissue went with solid colorways: black, silver-tone, and gold-tone. Dependable, wearable, broadly appealing. This version goes in a different direction entirely. The 34mm case is translucent green resin, glossy, with a finish that belongs in the same visual category as the clear Game Boy Color or the see-through iMac G3, objects that were already cool and became iconic partly because someone decided to let you see inside them.
Timex calls it “Clearly Iconic,” which is accurate. The translucent case puts the watch’s internals and retro styling on display in a way that solid plastic never could, and the matching molded single-piece strap keeps the aesthetic consistent from case to clasp. At 27.8g, it should virtually disappear on the wrist, a legitimate claim for a watch lighter than most car keys.
Translucent plastic carries its own cultural weight. The look peaked around the turn of the millennium, when a generation grew up wanting to see the circuit boards and battery compartments inside their gadgets. Timex leaning into that with the T80 is a smart bit of nostalgia: it does not just borrow the 1980s shape, it adds the see-through aesthetic that came slightly later.
What You Actually Get
The case measures 34mm across and 10mm tall, with a 43mm lug-to-lug distance that keeps the footprint compact. For context, 34mm sits at the smaller end of the digital watch spectrum, which makes this genuinely unisex and a size that tends to suit narrower wrists well. The 18mm single-piece molded resin strap is designed to wear as one continuous form with the case, reinforcing the translucent look with a seamless case-to-strap design, per Timex. It adjusts to fit wrists between 150 and 205mm, which covers most people comfortably.
Inside is a quartz digital movement: battery-powered, crystal-regulated, accurate and maintenance-free. The display gives you time, date, and a chronograph, plus a daily alarm. The INDIGLO backlight, developed by Timex in the early 1990s, lights up the entire dial with a single button press. It is electroluminescent rather than LED spot-lit, which means even illumination across the full display face rather than a bright center with dark edges. More than thirty years in, it is still one of the better backlights available at this price.
INDIGLO debuted in 1992 and became a Timex signature almost immediately. Rather than lighting the dial from one edge, the electroluminescent layer makes the whole face glow a soft blue-green, which keeps the readout legible in a dark theater without reaching for your phone.
Water resistance is rated to 30 meters. Handwashing and accidental splashes are fine; swimming is not. The crystal is acrylic, which is softer than mineral glass and prone to light surface scratches, but shatter-resistant and buffable. That is both period-correct for a retro piece and functionally sensible on a watch at this price. The battery is a CR2016, a standard coin cell that is cheap and easy to find anywhere.
Who It’s For
If you have been wearing a Casio A168 or an F91-W as your daily driver because it hits the nostalgia note without demanding money or attention, the T80 gives you the same core proposition with a few meaningful differences. The INDIGLO backlight covers the full dial evenly: a design advantage over the side-lit panels common in budget digital watches, covering the entire face rather than illuminating from one edge. Timex’s four-button layout is clean once you know it, and both the alarm and chronograph are accessible without deep menu navigation.
The translucent green colorway adds something that stainless steel T80 variants and solid-color resin versions simply do not have: a visual specificity that reads as deliberate. This is the kind of watch people notice and ask about, not because it is expensive or complicated, but because it is doing something distinct at a price point where most watches are trying to pass for something else.
It also lands at the right moment. Digital watches have spent the last few years shifting from purely functional throwbacks to genuine style pieces, with brands across the price spectrum reissuing 1980s and 1990s models and selling out of them. The T80 fits neatly into that wave, and the translucent treatment gives it a hook a plain black reissue does not have. If you want in on the trend without wearing the same watch as everyone else, this is an easy pick.
At $109, the T80 costs more than an F91-W but well under a Q Timex or anything in Timex’s analog reissue line. For a watch this light, this legible, and this unapologetically retro, that price is a reasonable ask.
Price: $109
Where to Buy: Timex, (Basic Model)
Availability
The Timex T80 34mm Resin Strap Watch in translucent green (TW2Y34100) is available now for pre-order at Timex.com for $109.
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