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Great to see people still having passion for 70's/80s digital watches.

Thank you for the Viedeo. Without U, I never know same watch with 2 Names!

I bought one Casio 03-505 from 1976 , last month and i love it. Greets from Germany 😉

I had to chuckle as you mentioned how you and your schoolmates drove the teachers mad with your watches playing tunes like "The Yellow Rose of Texas!" I can well remember our headmaster staring daggers at us during assembly, when someone's watch started playing that song or "Green Sleeves."

This is my cup of tea... Early digital watches ..This is right up my street early digital watches are awesome..Maybe just the era I grew up in.. But I love digital watches, They are EPIC.... Long live Casio digital watches. Thank you for this channel.

Ended up really nice looking. 😃

I feel the same way with every watch I get my hands on, I won't give up on it.

Great video Mike. Wow on the finish watch. Great job

I just heard the end of the video! Thanks so much for the shout out!!

Four years summed up into half an hour! Good job!

Congratulations, through the turmoil of doing to the peace of done. 👍

I thought I was subscribed, thanks for the reminder. Got it done. You do great work.

I really love this watch! Beautiful job

So glad to see you back in proper form !!!!!!!!!

Tissot is a higher end watch. I never 👎 thought 💭 of them making a digital one ☝️. It sounds like 👍 your Dremel tool is having trouble 👿 gaining speed. Very beautiful watch case. The crystal is glass. Your friend, Jeff.

Great watch, congratulations !

Sorry 😞 about three comments in a row. I like 👍 your ENTIRE digital watch collection. Your friend, Jeff.

Brilliant. I do think digital watches are seeing a come back with Casio new TRN-50 Casiotron

Hi really excited, I'm erik.

Happy subscriber feeding the algorithm! Me, I love the original LED watches, which are hard to find, at reasonable prices for working examples. I really appreciate your honesty in describing your experiences!

Just, an amazing job, thanks for sharing. I learned, something new, never knew that., about Casio, & Tissot Very interesting video

that was very interesting to watch. Didnt realise you did digital aswell. Just ordered a coil to try and repair an old Lorus quarts Ive had since school in the 80s. It hasnt worked for years. Can understand how happy you are that this is now working.

Good yellow Sunshine dahlias. I have been I a factory where they painted engraving. Method :using acrylic paint paint over the engraving as you did. Wipe over with a paper hand towel Repeat with a clean hand towel. Leave to dry. Yes I was surprised and asked if they could not get a machine to do it. The boss replied that they had tried but a human made the best job. What a mind numbing boring job. Well done for persisting with the watch repair.

My kind of video!:) The repair side of things something i really need to invest in sooner or later. Some really nice 70s casios in your collection.

Just subscribed to the new channel. Over 200 watches, I thought my 94 were a lot, I’m not even halfway there.

What a retro beauty!

Awesome video, love these Casios from this era!

What enjoyable episode. Your enthusiasm was infectious. Still smiling at the end.

Awesome video mike and once again! Thanks for posting!!

That’s RETRO!! I remember watches like 👍 these, years ago. They were the REAL deal. Seeing the modules out of the case. The RETRO look 👀. I’m going to bet this is a 1972 watch. Your friend, Jeff.

Hi Mike, wishing you all success for your new channel. Cant wait to see your personal collection. A collection of beautiful vintage peices that I and most would not have seen. Love your channel, love your content and most of all love you sir. You are a wonderful and charming man.

Swiss Name, Japanese Technology I found today after watching the Video . Iam not surprised if Rolex will use Seiko modules in the future.

What a great vid! Really pleased with the result.

Sweet. I love those old digital watches. Glad to see one restored to it´s former glory. I envy you a bit there. That surely is a beauty.

My first digital watch was a Nelsonic that played "La Cucaracha" for its alarm. :) My parents were happy when the battery died. (And the leads you found in the middle of the circuit board that seem to lead to nowhere either continue to a component on the other side of the board or are leading to ground)

Brilliant video super interesting 👍thanks Mike

I'm glad I found you, Its hard been a digital collector , my wife tells me its a sickness not a passion :) Thanks for this segment and look forward for the rest.

Looks like a regular ceramic PCB. The traces are probably silver, with a gold plating on the outside layers. You can still order ceramic PCBs today, but it is quit expensive and niche. Don't know why they would use ceramics over regular PCBs back then, maybe they couldn't get the right thickness/layer count?

Great watch, nice to have finally got it sorted. Just to say thank you for reminding me to get my first PSA test and have had a clear result. 0.5. Keep up the great work. And keep recovering quickly. Stay safe fella.

HI Mike Good to see you back on the watches. I think the tracks on the ceramic PCB is alumina oxide or nitride.

Love the film watch, don't remember seeing those when they were sold originally.

Great save Mike! I also have a few classics in storage just waiting for the right donor and know how satisfying it is when a longterm project comes together! I would’ve used the LCD screen from the blue Casiotron since the printed graphics are not faded, especially noticeable in the red printing for Sunday. I noticed the LCD display seems a bit faint too so there’s a chance that the display might improve using the LCD screen from the blue Casio. Entertaining video! Keep up the good work mate!

Great video Mike, I'm looking at digital watches in a totally different light now!

Great video as usual. Very interesting watch a Casio in a Tissot case. I just completed the service/ repair of a 1977 Seiko Bell-Matic. Has to be the most complicated watch I’ve done so far. I have yet to tackle a chronograph. But this watch has 2 main springs, 1 for the movement and one for the alarm. The inner bezel turns to whatever 12 hour alarm you want it has a little plunger to turn it off and on. I never knew such a watch existed until I found this one.

That was a long wait. :) Great result.Well made too. Then again they weren't as cheap as they became later.

As you mentioned, the watch has been serviced. Some of those solder points are a mess. Those big globs of solder are a tell-tale sign of someone who does not work on circuit boards. Great videos and now to find those old school digital watches I had growing up 😃

Yet another great video! I have just subscribed to your review channel!

Ah, they joy in your voice when it fired up for the first time :)

Great video! I used to own the LCD TV Seiko (shown at 1:52 ) when I was a teen ager.

I have a small collection/hoard of very early Swiss quartz analogue. Things like Girard Perregaux' first quartz watches(and the movement that made 32Khz the standard), Omegas first inhouse movement, even a NOS Longines Ultra-Quartz(the single maddest watch movement ever. Look it up Sir. If you dare. I suggest some whiskey beforehand😄). My worry has always been movements giving up the ghost, so when I was collecting them years ago, before prices went up(I'm a cheapskate) I also tried to source a spare working watch and stick it in an ani static bag for the future. I have looked more recently and prices have gone up while supply has gone right down. It was a fascinating time and should be presreved and enjoyed like your Tissot. The only digital I have was my dad's first series Seiko calculator watch. The display is very washed out though so you've inspired me to go looking. 👍🙂 PS. In my humble it wasn't a "Quartz crisis" that nearly killed the Swiss, but watches like your Tissot. It was a Digital crisis. The Swiss had heavily invested in quartz and they were selling well, but only analogue. They completely missed the digital coming. First from America and then the Far East. Suddenly analogue watches mechanical or quartz looked "old fashioned". The Swiss tried to catch up,(even very slow to innovate Rolex prototyped an LED,) but they were too expensive and at least a year behond the Asian guys in features.

Would like to see more digital restorations on the channel. Especially on the Casio melody alarm.

Nice!

Looking forward to watching this. It's funny when you mentioned the possibility of Tissot looking down on Casio. You may be right, but what amused me was that on my Casio Mudmaster Ana-Digi the seconds hand hits every marker while on the quartz Tissot PRX I got the seconds hand doesn't hit ANY markers! Lol. Maybe Casio should be doing the looking down! Subscribing to Channel 2 now!

what a luck to get a working donor mvt...I love the Tissot, nice case. Well done m8

great video now i know more thank you and enjoy your casio sorry tissot

Never really liked digital watches but seeing your collection I am on Ebay looking for a nice early casio

That first Casiotron case you talk about looks exactly like the Tissot case you polished. Looks like Tissot did a Casiotron homage. 😁 Great and interesting video.

Excellent work here! I always thought that old-school LCD's that aren't Casios are very much underrated. Think you'll get around to an even more weird LED setup? I've heard the ones from Elektronika are quite interesting in terms of their design. If not, there's always the French Yema.

Man, awesome job...your perseverance with these things is commendable, and that's a great looking watch! By the way, TMI disclosure here...thanks in part to you an my nagging wife...the good news is my psa is right where it needs to be...and glad to see you back at the bench. :-)

I'd like to see more of these digital watches repaired here. Other than you here, I've only seen The Nekkid Watchmaker do it.

Nice video, always good to see proper watchmakers working on the totally legitimate category of LCD watches. I loved your Sicura video too, amazing watch! Today watching this inspired me to wear my Le Gant metal case LCD, a rebranded Seiko, has a Y709 4039 movement (I should say module, of course). There is a type of watch, you might be toatally aware of it (?), called a Big Tic, made by companies subzero and Fossil, has inside a mechanical quartz for the hours and minutes and a module for the giant LCD seconds.

I love the idea of doing reviews of your own vintage collection. I could take or leave more reviews of micro brands and AliExpress watches but vintage show and tell is a Subscribe.

That Cassio is fabricated on a ceramic printed circuit board. You are probably used to pictures of computer boards made of green fiberglass laminate and silver or gold or copper colored traces. This is the same concept, but using different materials. Each of those black lines is functionally a wire. We call them "traces". They typically go from a connection of one part to a connection of another part, if they can reach it easily. Sometimes there is another trace or something else in the way, so the trace needs to "jump over" the obstruction. This is usually done by moving the trace to the other side of the board. This is done with a "via", which is a metallic connection thru the board. Those traces that end in a tiny round mark are going to a via, which is where the round spot is. If you check very carefully you will probably find in many cases that there is another blob at exactly the same place on the other side of the substrate. I don't know, but I suspect that those traces may be silver. You obviously can solder to silver under the right conditions, since you can see a lot of soldered parts connecting to traces. You can also plate them with other metals, like gold for instance. I suspect the battery compartment might be gold plated to help survive corrosion to some limited extent.

So chuffed for you, what a great watch! I envy you! I'm going to subscribe to your second channel and look forward to seeing your digital watch collection and the jumphour restoration on this channel. 👍

The traces on the ceramic substrate are a kind of conductive ink that is printed onto the ceramic. It is fired to some extent to remove the carrier material and leave just a conductive line on the ceramic. As a conductive material, silver, nickel and possibly some carbon are likely materials for the traces. If it contains silver, it is in combination with some other metal, as it has not tarnished. Some areas of this material were then selectively gold plated to make better contact with the contact spring and minimize the damage that a little battery leakage might cause. A tip to cleaning up battery leakage: Start with water, as the electrolyte in the batteries uses water as a solvent.

Have found memories of my Yellow Rose of Texas Casio I had back in the day. I have no idea where it is I have moved 8 times or more since I last saw it. So I’m guessing it got lost in one of the moves. That’s before I started using the nice multi watch boxes.

When you back fill with paint like you did for the T you can use acetone free nail polish remover to remove any paint that you want to remove and works really well about not effecting the paint that you have applied.

Thanks Mike some great leads much appreciated mate. I wish I had my digital watches that I got in the 70s. Nothing like a 4 year build and now it is back from the dead. Well done. what were you working on a metal barrel or something?

Done subscribed to your other channel can’t wait to see reviews on vintage watches

Apparently the ceramic modules were made by NEC. I have a stainless steel weave band which actually came off of a '90s vending machine watch...it's actually quite a nice one.

Yellow rose of Texas or OH Susanna? 🤔. Lovely digital watches you have Mike. I remember Casio made a 7 melody alarm watch. If only I took care of it.

I know this may sound a little out of context, as to what I’d like 👍 to see ya ✌️ collect, in addition to your watches, but ya should add a TV 📺 watch (or a few) to your watch collection. This TV 📺 watch was a 1970’s technology device, and ya could watch TV 📺, right on your wrist. These did consist of a somewhat bulky receiver, but it fit in a shirt 👕 pocket quite well. I’m sure there was a couple of wires that ya connect to the receiver, and then to the watch, but these were all the rage 😤 back in the 1970’s. I think these TV 📺 watches were in color. They came in a few different brand names, but they were like 👍 having 2022 in 1978. At least, I did not find the receivers on these too bulky. More like 👍 a “compact”, or “neat” type of “bulky”, as to speak 🗣. Even for the 1970’s (inflation was so much less then), I would not be surprised 😯 if these TV 📺 watches went for $600.00, retail. They’re probably that, on today’s inflation calculator, as vintage. Yes, a long comment. I know I don’t have to apologize for it being so long. Enjoy 😉, and comment me back on your opinion on TV 📺 watches. Happy Halloween 🎃 👻. Your friend, Jeff.

Mike, I'm subscriber #725 for your new channel, wish you a lot of success. Best Regards

the penetrates are called "VIA". They are used to connect both sides between themselves.

I repaired many of these in the early 90’s. The main PCB, was designed by Jerrard Moline, of Casio. He used Titanium traces. The titanium did not fair well with condensation, which is why they failed! The ceramic was the secondary issue!

The electrical path through the board is probably done by drilling a hole and plating it. That's how it's done these days on fiberglass FR-4 boards.

I enjoyed watching the care you put into this watch. I'm trying to repair a Casio analogue watch, but the stem had broken off in the crown and has defied any attempt at removal. Alum, or what was sold to me as alum, hasn't worked so I'm stuck....

:) Found out on my digital clock how to have it display normal time, and no am/pm, so it is possible, on my watch, look for the "h" setting.

Amazing but I would have swapped LCD assembly from the Tissot to the Casio module to keep it true to the original. I LOVE your vintage Casio collection.

Very nice video. One question. Although the module is identical, the screens arent exactly the same. The number of letters for the day of the week, as well as the numbered bar, are different. Is the exchange possible?

The stamp inside the Casio "51-7-20" is the production date in the Showa calendar (51 years since the emporer acceded the throne), meaning 20th July 1977 in the western calendar.

Subbed to your other channel.

As a jeweler I should point out you can't polish scratches out. All you get is shiny scratches. the surface needs to be reduced using ever finer abrasives until it is uniform and flat. TEHN you can polish it.

Hi mate, for your Experience what's the best way for make it last a digital movement? An example It s better to left them always working with a battery or without? 🤔

Hey hey hey !!! So nice to complete this historical digital watch ! Happy for you to finally find a good electronic movement replacement ! Your collection is so interesting !! Another very good video Mike !! ✨👌

I bought my first digital watch in 1983. $13 Casio. I wore it for 8 years until the case failed. Got another same model. Wore that one for another 8 years. Then I got a Casio with bigger numbers on the display. Now I have a cheap digital from Walmart that was clearance for $3. I bought a spare. Found they were discounted because people didn't know they had to be opened up to remove a plastic film over the battery.

Great video. Amazing what a bit of patience can achieve.

Was enjoying every bit of this video! Tell me are those day of the weeks printed on a polarizing filter or under it? I have a casiotron 04-507 with damaged polarizing filter so I wanted to replace it but if it contains printings then unfortunately I can't do it :(

I have been trying to get my favorite quartz watching going again this passed weekend. It is a DKNY NY1314, powered by two 377 batteries on two separate pads. The original batteries had left some corrosion on the board and the contact area, I had cleaned it throughly, even use Deoxit to clean its contacted. But when I install the new batteries, it only managed to power on briefly for 10 second or so. And I cannot for the life of me to find a consistent point where it is getting connection to power the watch in short burst. I even got it to run constant at some point, but as soon as I close the case back, the vibration was enough to shock it out of position where it was making contact. Much said that my favorite qurtz piece in my collection remains to be powered off.

Hi! Did you not need to ac reset after battery install?

regarding cleaning swabs at 17:50 - better get yourself some Bergeon 7007 swabs, they work wonders and they're reusable, so a pack of 10 (35 quid at cousins) will last you a lifetime.

Hello, nice job, and where I can find that seiko forum ? I need some spare parts! Thank you !

I wonder why the Casio display has the seconds bar with PM on the right, and the Tissot does not?

I was just going to say cheep batt will ruin movements I always fit varta or Swiss branded they tend not to leak cheep batts leek and when flat switch polarity and bow circuitry

12:28: I'm almost certain the reference numbers inside the Casio case indicate a date of 20 July 1976. 51=51st year of the Showa era, which corresponds to 1976.

Do you remember that Kojak had a Red LED watch. Probably the first on TV

What do you think about the latest prx digital?

hello, thanks for the video. I will mention you in a video I am going to upload tomorrow on my channel (it is about the Tissot PRX Digital) and I will paste the link of your website under the description. Hope it is fine for you!

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