Overhauling a Seiko D229-5000, digital with a crown! Which is playing up

Here’s a fun one I thought I’d share. This thing is beat up to hell, but the module works great, just a faint bit of that oil slick aging on the LCD. Except the adjust switch in the crown is touchy, which makes it almost impossible to set…

Carefulling, carefulling… Oops

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Hm. How did that hang together? Missed it. Hindsight says the trick is to lift the front half off, and hopefully all that junk will stay where it belongs in the back half. The whole…

Overhauling a Seiko D229-5000, digital with a crown! Which is playing up

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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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