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#1 User is offline   Andy 

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Posted 25 August 2003 - 07:50 PM

Recently picked up this.
Not working but am hoping it's just in need of a battery.
Case back is signed TOMSLABO :blink:
Any ideas or just A.N. Other obscure make.

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Posted 25 August 2003 - 08:08 PM

Sounds like an obscure Japanese one. I have not heard of it before.
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Posted 26 August 2003 - 07:25 AM

Andy,

Its not the owners name is it?

Tom Slabo.
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Posted 26 August 2003 - 12:38 PM

Looks familiar, so is either a fairly popular model (in it's era) or a good copy, .... was looking at some LED watches on stall in Camden Market a while back, but ended up buying a new retro one instead, as their prices were prohibitive.

Which leads me onto the vulgar question, ... how much did you pay?

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Posted 26 August 2003 - 03:38 PM

phlogistician, on Aug 26 2003, 12:32 PM, said:

how much did you pay?

Tenner :)
Took it to H. Samuels this morning, where they see if it works before sellin the battery.
Pressed the button and just got 4 red blobs in the display :(
Oh well you win some and you lose some...

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Posted 26 August 2003 - 04:01 PM

Oh well, shame it doesn't work, but all might not be lost. You might be able to get a modern LED unit to fit the old case, as retro LEDs are having a small resurgence. (I have a retro styled LED watch (with a dead battery, so no surprise there, lasted less than a year), and an inverse LCD with blue/green luminescent backlight, that does a good job of faking an LED look. (Batt on that has lasted four years!))

Might be worth looking around, finding a module with the buttons in the right place will be the hard bit though.

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Posted 26 August 2003 - 06:08 PM

Shame about the watch Andy. With the back off does the movement have a manufacturer? Many of these old LED's were set using a magnet.
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Posted 26 August 2003 - 06:21 PM

I just had a good look at the back.
I can't see any makers name but there does seem to be a secondary battery in there which I didn't notice before.
I didn't think to test that one as well.
Any idea what it could be.
Looks like an ordinary watch battery but kind of hidden. Getting to it could be a problem.

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Posted 26 August 2003 - 07:27 PM

Ah, could one battery be for movement power and one for illumination? A back up battery?

Could be worth swapping the other cell, just to see.

Tenner's not bad if you can get it going, LEDs are fetching silly money on the FleaBay.

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