{"product_id":"dirty-time-company-spiro-agnew-watch","title":"Dirty Time Company Spiro Agnew Watch","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003eA rare, and culturally significant, advertising poster for the \u003cem\u003eDirty Time Company Spiro Agnew Watch\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1969. The poster depicts President Nixon as Mickey Mouse wearing a watch showing Nixon’s Vice President, Spiro Agnew, in a star-spangled boxer’s outfit. Nixon\/Mickey Mouse can be seen repeating a contemporary joke, “Did you know Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch?”. The meaning behind this joke is that Agnew (who had strong conservative and pro Vietnam War views) was such a cartoon\/joke character that the ultimate cartoon character, Mickey Mouse, would wear a watch with Agnew’s face on it. The watch itself was based on a popular Mickey Mouse wristwatch, with cartoon hands pointing to the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003eProduced by a family business in California, the watch (and joke) was adopted by the anti-Vietnam War lobby and briefly became a political fashion accessory with \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eorders placed by the likes of Ethel Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor and John Lennon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003eAlthough examples of the watch survive today, we have never seen a copy of the original promotional poster for sale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003eA higher resolution image is available for viewing on request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; background: #FEFDFA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57704744386942,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1031\/1937\/files\/DSC2272_2.jpg?v=1785315848","url":"https:\/\/www.twentiethcenturyposters.com\/products\/dirty-time-company-spiro-agnew-watch","provider":"Twentieth Century Posters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}