I see Benlydesign are looking to remake the Roger W. Riehl designed Synchronar, the world’s first solar-powered digital wristwatch from 1972, kickstarter project here:
Continue readingPro Trek ‘Raid Galouises’ PRT-1400 [1999] – anyone have any info on it?
Got myself one of these
From 1999, module number – 1999! Lol
Can't find anything about it, let alone the manual. Anyon…
Continue readingI received this SANDA 329 watch in the mail yesterday.
For $6.00, it's an excellent watch that I'm completely satisfied with. It's also suitable for rebellious, intuitive people or those with poor eyesight who might intentionally skip details or ignore instructions because the start/stop, la…
Continue readingUm, Casio? WTF?!?
Vintage weekly rotation
Show us your vintage watches in weekly rotation.
Let's establish two guidelines ;
True vintage, with you for any amount of time , and retro, yours for more than ten years.
Long Question For The Group…
As you know from my posts, I have two (actually, now three) Seiko Pulsemeter digital watches. On one of them, I managed to muck up the laminated stick-on LCD screen, because I'm a MORON! The replacement Seiko part – P/N# 4510-068 – consists of the…
Continue readingAnadigit SANYO
I just received this very nice ana-digit SANYO.
I couldn't find much info on this watch. It could be from the 80s'
I found this thread about a similar model :
Although it wasn't mentionned, the watch seems NOS.
I got it for a …
Continue readingA digital watch with selective/customisable hourly chimes?
As per the title, anyone aware of anything with such a feature? For example, I want the hourly chimes to be active from 11am to 11pm, but then quiet until 11am again.
No smartwatches, please. Cheers.
Casiotron TRN50 module swap into other watch bodies
Hi everyone,
I’m new to the forum so hopefully this is the correct place to post.
I recently purchased my first Casio – the Casiotron TRN50. It ticks so many boxes for my needs. A digital watch with an auto backlight and solar so I never have to th…
Continue readingLighting upgrade experiments
So I'm thinking maybe I'll try upgrading the dismal old lighting on a couple of vintage 3V numbers with warm white LEDs. Did an F-91 for practice.
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