Bet your watch doesn’t have this simple and super useful function

…Unless it’s an old Casio Melody Alarm. But wait, it’s nothing to do with alarms or melodies; these 82/142 modules (they share a manual but have different melodies) have another feature which is totally killer: the brilliantly implemented stopwatch/timer, which deserves to have defined all subsequent stopwatches and timers, but sunk without a trace…

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At first I thought there was little else to this watch beyond the…

Bet your watch doesn’t have this simple and super useful function

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Would this be a cute stunt or a clanging faux pas?

So I have this minty-fresh 1st-gen Casio I’m thinking of moving on, an 03-506 in lovely nick, just a handful of very fine scratches which I presume is just shop wear, given no fading of the red and the fact I only received the bare watch; box and manual lost in the mists of time somewhere in the last half-century… I suppose at one point it wouldn’t have been worth much.

So given that, plus the fact I really don’t have any enthusiasm for chasing down an original box and tag and all that…

Would this be a cute stunt or a clanging faux pas?

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