Luggage Tag (transparent acrylic with blue metal accent, 2011)

This luggage tag is made from transparent acrylic and is wrapped with an anodized metal blue accent. One side of the blue accent features a white Apple logo, and the other side includes a cutout for the user’s name and is printed with the words “2011 Education Sales Club.” The words are printed in white in the Apple Myriad font, Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.

The slide-out card with personal information inside the luggage tag is secured by a translucent silicone loop.

The luggage tag has elegantly rounded corners and thickly curved edges. It measures 2 3/8 inches wide, 3 1/2 inches long, and is 1/4 inch thick.

Source: Wikipedia (Typography of Apple)

Luggage Tag (transparent acrylic gray with siver metal accent, 2007)

This luggage tag is made from a gray-brown transparent acrylic and is wrapped with an anodized metal silver accent. One side of the anodized silver accent features a black Apple logo and a cutout for the user’s name, and the other side is printed with the words “2007 Education Sales Club.” The words are printed in the Apple Myriad font, Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.

The slide-out card with printed information inside the luggage tag is secured by a translucent silicone loop.

The luggage tag has elegantly rounded corners and thickly curved edges. It measures 2 3/8 inches wide, 3 1/2 inches long, and is 1/4 inch thick.

Source: Wikipedia (Typography of Apple)

Luggage Identification Card (brushed stainless steel, 2009)

This Luggage Identification Card is metal with a silver brushed stainless steel finish. The metal edges of the card are folded in to secure a clear plastic front, a white card that reads “YOUR BUSINESS CARD HERE,” and a matching stainless steel back plate. The metal back plate and card housing have holes that match positions so when threaded, the Luggage Identification Card remains secure.

The stainless steel back plate on this Luggage Identification Card is printed in white with the words “2009 Education Sales Club” in the Apple Myriad font. Apple Myriad was Apple’s corporate font used approximately between 2003–2017.

Source: Wikipedia (Typography of Apple)

Luggage Lock (c. 2009)

This Apple-branded Luggage Lock may have been available at the Apple Company Store at the Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California. It is packaged in a black gift box with an Apple logo, a UPC code, and the part number T5132LL/A.

This unique item is made from metal and is 1.5 inches square and 0.25 inches thick. The Luggage Lock has a three-number combination lock along the bottom with a combination that can be set by the user. Once set, a 6-inch braided metal cable allows the user to lock their luggage with this device.

The Luggage Lock has a smooth finish that is champagne colored, and the braided cable is silver. The front of the lock is printed with a white Apple logo, and a patent number is engraved in the back.

The Luggage Lock includes a 2-page instruction manual that teachers the user how to set the combination and thread a metal luggage identification card through the cable. Although the metal luggage identification card is not included in the gift box, my collection includes a metal luggage tag that may have been sold along side this lock.

Journal with embossed logo (black leather, 2006)

This journal has a black leather cover and a leather closure tab with chrome snap hardware. An elastic loop to hold a pen is included under the tab. The cover of the journal has an embossed Apple logo in the lower-right corner.

A spiral-bound notebook is included inside the journal. The notebook is printed with lines, and the final two pages include an IMPORTANT CONTACTS page and a calendar page with 2006 and 2007 calendars. The pages are printed in the Gill Sans font, the same font used by Apple for the Newton product line produced from 1992–1998.

In addition to the chrome snap on the cover, chrome rivets are used on the back of the journal to hold it together.

The journal measures 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. It is 5/8 inch thick.

Source: Wikipedia (Apple fonts)

Desk Clock (champagne color, etched logo, c. 2005)

This Apple-branded Desk Clock was likely purchased at the Apple Company Store at the Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California. It is packaged in a gift box with a UPC code, the part number T5134LL/A, and is priced at $34.95.

The clock base is made from solid metal and is relatively heavy for its size. The metal base is polished stainless steel in a champagne color with a textured Apple logo etched into the front under the clock. The bottom of the base is covered in a black, non-scratch, velvet-textured fabric to protect the surface on which it sits.

The clock is battery-powered and mounted in a hole through the top-center of the base. The outer ring of the clock is polished silver. The clock face is a matte version of the champagne-colored base. The clock has silver hands and no numbers, but marks the 12, 3, 6, and 9 positions with thin, black triangles.

The front of the clock is rectangular with a gentle arch across the top. The back of the clock is elegantly curved from top to bottom. The metal clock base is 2.25 inches wide, 2.5 inches tall, and 0.75 inches deep at the base. The circular clock is 1.5 inches in diameter.

The colors, finishes, and overall weight give this desk clock a luxurious look and feel.

Apple Key Fob (c. 2005)

This key fob is an oval shape, made of metal, and has a champagne-color matte finish. The outside edge of the fob is highly polished silver, and matches the finish of the loop through the hole at the top. The front of the fob features a textured off-white Apple logo.

The back of the fob is blank and uses the champagne-color matte finish.

The key fob is 2 inches tall and 1 1/8 inches wide. The loop at the top adds an additional 3/8 inch to the length.

The colors, finishes, and overall weight give this key fob a luxurious look and feel.

Watch, www.apple.com (c. 1997)

This rare boxed watch was offered by Apple as a marketing piece, likely for Apple’s System 7.5 operating system that was released in 1997. The watch body is made from a matte-finished silver metal and has a black leather band. The watch face is white with red dots in the 12, 3, 6, and 9 positions; has red hour and minute hands; and is printed across the top with www.apple.com with the six-color logo printed at the bottom. Instead of a second hand, the watch has a transparent disc printed with eight color icons. The icons resemble System 7.5 color icons, but they do not match.

The icons are are printed top-to-bottom so the disc is only aligned at 0º once per minute—as opposed to having the icons printed at angles so the topmost icon is aligned to the 12 position. The icons resemble the following System 7.5 icons:

  • Puzzle (Application)—located under the Apple Menu
  • Dogcow—icon located on the Print screen to indicate the layout of the printed page
  • Color—Control Panel
  • Trash
  • Map—Control Panel
  • Users & Groups—Control Panel
  • Alarm Clock (Application)—located under the Apple Menu
  • Globe—similar to the Map Control panel

The watch measures 9 3/8 inches long from tip of the black leather band to the metal buckle. The metal watch case is 1 5/8 inches tall by 1 1/4 inches wide.

Another design inconsistency is that the www.apple.com URL printed in black on the watch face is not in Apple Garamond, Apple’s corporate font of the time. Rather, the font used appears to be a version of Times.

The original box shares many of the design quirks of the watch itself. The box measures 3 7/8 inches wide x 5 7/8 inches tall x 1 1/8 inches deep. Its base is glossy black, and it opens like a jewel box along the short edge.

The top exterior of the box has the six-color Apple logo printed in the center, and it is surrounded by a slightly different version of the eight icons shown on the watch. Although the box icons are slightly more realistic than the smaller watch versions, they also do not match the System 7.5 icons.

When opened, the interior of the box is primarily glossy black and uses a pop-up cardboard effect (similar to a “pop-up book”). The pop-up is a stylized globe in bright blue and bright green that is oriented upside-down (with the northern and southern hemispheres rotated and drawn in a manner inconsistent with an actual globe). The URL www.apple.com is printed in white in a quarter-rounded path around the globe in the same font as the watch face.

The box-bottom repeats the URL www.apple.com in bright blue across the top. A slot near the bottom and six-color Apple logo tab near the top are used to secure the watch at an angle on an in insert inside the box.

A Cult of Mac article was still available online at the time of this writing that featured this “Apple Watch” as the world waited for the release of the Apple Watch—referred to in the article as the “iWatch.” At the time, Cult of Mac (and other news sources) were incorrectly assuming Apple’s rumored smart watch would be called “iWatch.” The headline reads, “Forget The iWatch, Here Are 11 Apple Watches You Can Buy Right Now.” The article reads, in part:

“When rumors of the iWatch first surfaced, most insiders pegged its launch date for somewhere around the end of 2013 and everyone got super excited that our wrists are going to get blinged out by Apple really soon. However, lately we’ve been hearing that that might not be the case, and we won’t be able to slap Apple’s magical wrist watch on until 2014.”

I consider myself privileged to have this unusual and classic watch in my collection.

Sources: CultOfMac, GUIdebook (Graphical User Interface Gallery), Wikipedia