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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
I went to the local bric-a-brac sale this morning and picked up this old Casio. I've set the time and the digital display is working fine but the hands have lost two & half hours since around lunch. Do you think a simple battery change will solve this or is it probably done for?

The seller also gave me the book below as part of the deal, it's not really much help to me but this forum has helped me out plenty of times. Sometimes, just reading other peoples issues and how they got over them so I think it's time I gave something back. If anyone wants this book drop me a message and I'll get it posted out.

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#2 · (Edited by Moderator)
Nice watch, I had one similar many years ago. It's worth looking but it may need two batteries , one for the digital bit and one for the quarts analogue bit. I had a digital/analogue watch (not this one though) that had the two battery thing going on. A new battery would be a good start though.
 
#3 ·
If you do change the battery - which I'd concur with @Ugg10 - my Dad had a similar dual clock model and that had 2 batteries and several Casios my husband had do - be mindful that Casios often have to be 'reset' after you put the battery in. There's a spot somewhere inside with a contact and you need to touch this and the battery simultaneously to reboot the chip, or whatever it is. You might need to search for the model and find a manual as these contain the diagram of where this elusive little spot is in the mechanism. Not doing that can cause the watch to look like it's working initially, but not all the functions work.

So it might also be worth trying that before you lay out for new batteries. Someone might have put batteries in, not reset it, the watch doesn't work right and they've decided that it's junked.
 
#4 ·
I can't edit my post, so I'll have to add a new one. The box I'm just clearing from my parents' house has a bag of old Casio instructions in it (largely calculators) and one of them has details of this reset process for a watch - they call this spot you touch, the AC - All Clear Contact - it instructs to "touch the AC contact and the battery (+) side with metallic tweezers. Contact should be about 2 seconds".

I found them to be at different heights, so tweezers won't span them easily and so I keep an uneven sided U shaped paperclip for this purpose.