The History of Kronoform: The Robot Watch
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Lots and lots of kids had a robot watch; a watch that transformed into a robot and back. Turns out, there is a whole story behind how they got started and where they came from and, in a roundabout way, connects all the way back to GI JOE.
This is the story of the robot watch. This is the story of KRONOFORM.
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaclone
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Diakron
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kronoform
https://web.archive.org/web/20041108030559/http://www.geocities.com:80/futuristgroup/vdiaclone.html
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Choro-Q
https://soundwavesoblivion.blogspot.com/2017/09/takaras-diakron-kronoform-part-1-diakron.html
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Micro_Change
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1179665803/?match=1&terms=%22kronoform%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1006575784/?match=1&terms=%22kronoform%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/993746400/?match=1&terms=%22kronoform%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/957369415/?match=1&terms=%22kronoform%22
https://soundwavesoblivion.blogspot.com/2016/05/watch-q-1984-1985.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20041212095945/http://www.geocities.com/futuristgroup/vdiaclone2.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1097696892/?match=1&terms=%22diakron%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1015692160/?match=1&terms=%22diakron%22
https://www.newspapers.com/image/241226787/?match=1&terms=%22diakron%22
https://web.archive.org/web/20041115084213/http://www.geocities.com/futuristgroup/vfirsttf.html
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@suspectedmilitant
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I resent the designation of three and three quarter inches as "Microman", ok? It's the twenty first century, let's try to be a liiiiiittle more sensitive
@TheFlippingDutchm4n
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I just wanted to know more about the watch. Now I know everything about 80's robot toys
@ShreditorShane
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
That Japanese commercial though lol under her skirt!?
@えびとろあなご蒸し
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
ラストシーンの女性みたく大人が、特に女性が着けることは珍しかったよなあ日本では。
@InfamousEllis
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I'm pretty sure the one I bought from my cousin said "QUARTZ".
@notjackiechan9420
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
"Robotch" I cant even make fun of it more than itself ;PP
@BIGBamBam86
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I remember finding one of these in the late 80s early 90s at the pool. I've never forgotten that night. The memories
@DavidSanchez-rs5bw
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I completely forgot I had two of these robot watches.
Thank you for jogging my memory!
@brightargyle8950
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
HOLY COW! I totally forgot about these! I had one! They were so cool! Mine was the silver chrome version. I wonder what ever happened to that thing? It just kinda disappeared, which is lame. Probably ended up in the same place as my Spitball Sparky game.
@bart678
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had one of these. I was simply thrilled to wear a robot on my wrist every day.
@halecj1
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had 2 of these. First one got lost. Second one got lost.
@alanc6416
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Omg I think I either had this watch, or I dreamed I had it when I was a few years old😂😂
@hallvardhvidsten2217
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Wow I had one of these in gray, wonder where it is now
@yucelgeray6994
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
We want turkish subtitle option place
@chiggyvon
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Until seeing this video I had forgotten that I had one of these.
@newsentryarms
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I have this 😮gotta get my old toys out
@OkinInc
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
OMG!! I had this watch as a kid in the 80’s!! Had totally forgotten about it. 🥹
@Roninscobra
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had this
@marcussmith4913
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
my mom bought this for me. I kept it for a very long time. Makes me sad asf watching this video. All of this is gone now and whats left is not worth living in. I cant wait to go home, by the grace of Jesus my lord and savior.
@Mr.kolangkaling
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Lol, my watch when I was 6 years old
@mario3804
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Wow I had one of these watches.
@ragemadness
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had one of those when i was in school!.
@FabFiveFrankie
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I wanted one so bad but we never had G1 transformers or kronoform money.. we had go bots esp the ones on sale or clearance money, never had super go bots money though.
@ozramblue117
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had two of those and I absolutely loved them!
@pedroalbizios8946
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Early 80s I was in Puerto Rico about 7yo when I got mine, and under the excitement walking to my aunts house to show it off to my cousins I was hit by a car. It didn’t do anything but my watch broke and that was the end of it.I’ve been on the lookout for another didn’t even know all this about it until now. Thank you for sharing ❤
@jerrylongobardi1696
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Friggin awesome I remember this when I was in 3rd grade walking around with 100 garbage pail kids in my pocket lolol I wanted this but never got one.
@bungmonkey2295
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had and loved these. Had the robot guy and gold scorpion
@Qui-9
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I totally forgot I had this watch!
@javierortiz82
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had a clone that transformed into a plane, it was really cool but unfortunately at age four it was hard to take care of such a delicate piece. I wish I still had it.
@edwardharris9810
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
My dad got me and my sister one of these each it was awesome nobody at schoo! Had a watch that turned into a robot
@eternian76
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I used to have these cool! 🥲
@zulajak9850
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had this watch once…when I was a child….😅😅😅😅
@SmellyPoopPoop--x
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had one, think it was red.
@kenada-x
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
It's gotta be nearly forty years later and I still get sad when I remember destroying my Blue transformers watch by dunking my hand into the water of my mums twin tub washing machine whilst helping her out. These things weren't even a little bit waterproof. 😥😆
@odhinnsrunes
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
There's a memory that had lost its file name. Wow. I forgot I had one of those watches. Or that they existed.
@Bayan1905
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I remember getting one of the knock off watches from a grocery store machine back in the fall of 1985 when I was 9 years old. I didn't care, my parents had just split up, I had moved with my mother and two sisters to my grandparents house with only a few of my toys, the rest I left at the house and never saw them again including most of my Transformers, GI Joe and Star Wars stuff. So when I got that robot watch, it was probably the happiest I had been in a very long time, even if only for a little while.
@PythonSnake
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
This needed to end with the Diaclone jingle.
@Thedeterminedcrew
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I owned the silver model
@ultramaximusreviews
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I totally had a bootleg one that said Quartz. Loved it
@iancowan3527
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I had one!
@yotaiji012
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
DAMN YOU!!! Now prices will go up. 😢
@user-zp6ff2gr4n
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I totally forgot about these!
@johnnydough6813
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Mine was a copy, but I was too young to know or care. I loved it.
@daxbashir6232
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
@gollumnova4893
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
De niño tenìa uno sùper falso y lo amaba 😻
recuerdo q' un amigo tenìa el de aviòn 😹
@diymatt181
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
My entire childhood was a lie. I never knew they made the cartoons just to sell existing merch. I assumed the situation was reversed.
@redadamearth
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
Still have mine from childhood, as well as a sealed one that my grandfather gave me that ended up being an "extra". After he died, I never opened it and it's still in my collection bin. 🙂 If you were a kid in the 80's, these watches were just endless fun.
@0x0404
March 20, 2026 at 6:29 am
I've got some distant faint memory of a transformer and a watch. I might have actually had one of those or a knockoff tier version of it
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