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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Wv56 (2587) viewing angle terrible – repair? Polarizer? Zebra strip?

Hi, II have this wv56h that’s very neat cause it’s one of Casio’s first wave ceptor watches. I put a battery in it since it was low (had thr wrong battery – a 1632 instead of a 1620, the battery hatch wouldn’t fully close.)

Same problem is persisting – terrible lcd viewing angle. I’ve attached he’d pictures. It’s perfectly legible at a low angle but basically unreadable straight on making it not really wearable. I have like $8 in this watch and don’t mind messing with it. I took the module…

Wv56 (2587) viewing angle terrible – repair? Polarizer? Zebra strip?

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What ABC watch to buy as a gift

Hello guys,
My nephew is turning 18 soon, and he likes hiking, so I thought that an ABC watch would be a great gift for him.

Solar power and radio control is a must, so I found PRW-3400Y-2JF on Sakura (I don’t have any experience with that store, but it seems to have some good feedback in this forum). And I think it’d be pretty cool to have a JDM model.

However, I’ve also found PRW3500 on…

What ABC watch to buy as a gift

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