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Also I would suggest cerulam oxide the crystal to remove those very obvious and light splitting scratches to give you a good clean surface would immensely help its overall look :)
@@MyRetroWatches That watch looks super familiar to me, but I don't remember owning a Casio. I did have a couple Nelsonic watches as a kid, and I have to wonder if they shared components.
I was in 5th grade, everyday at noon I go to the school roof, when the sun is in middle of the sky, to hear my melody casio sings the big bin tune... And that feeling I will never forget.... I love the 80s.
Good work! I bought this from new, but with the black plastic case and it works just fine today. The watch can also display the time in 24h format. The tunes are: Daily Alarms Mo: American Patrol (F.W. Meacham) Tu: Santa Lucia (Italian Folk Song) We: Romanza de amor (Spanish Folk Song) Th: Marche Royale (French Folk Song) Fr: Kalinka (Russian Folk Song) Sa: Sakura Sakura (Japanese Folk Song) Su: Moments musicaux (Franz Schubert) Time Signal: Big Ben Date Signal: Wedding March Birthday: Happy Birthday Xmas: Jingle Bells I sent you the user-manual.
Thanks for this and well done. I have saved your post so I can remember the names of the scores. Yes I found the 24 hour feature too just must not have mentioned it in the video.
@@fullbring935 Sorry for the delay, I was on a travel and had no access to my papers. To set 24H, press and hold the lower right button, press the upper left button, release both. Done.
New to the channel and just saw this video suggestion. Its midnight so I've added to my watch later (see what I did there) list. I used to have one of these when I lived in Saudi and I LOVED it! Sadly long gone.
I am sure you can do it. Okay digital watches you might need more specialized equipment like an oscilloscope and a quartz tester. However the basics of stripping them down , cleaning and rebuilding anyone can do and it does fix allot of watches. In the next week or so I will start filming my digital watch collection on my second channel. Should be fun!
Back in 1980 I fell in love with this watch, it was in Boots on a board where you could play with it and listen to the alarms, left school and got my 1st job in 81 where I saved £25 and bought it - 1 year later after my YTS job finished I got a job in a bakery, whilst making meat pies, I noticed the top strip where the speaker is - was missing? Obviously went in to a pie, so after that, I took it to pieces and painted the reflector with yellow fog lamp paint, a bit like nail varnish set up... a long time later, I still have the module with the speaker glued on - where the case went is anybody's guess? lol... 41 years later I can still go upstairs and pick the fully working module up minus the battery - with a yellow screen lol :)
I remember this watch from the very early '80s and I was going to buy one but instead went with a TI and was happy with that but I always thought this one was cooler because of the music. The Texas Instruments seemed 'adult' and more rational, but I love that Casio and it's great to see that yours works so well again. And you're absolutely right about mesmerizing for kids in school. I had a girl who sat next to me in social studies and her family were recent Russian expatriates. She had never seen a digital watch like the Texas Instruments. Most kids who grew up during the Soviet era could not hope to have such things. She was mesmerized by it and asked me to look at it at her desk for about an hour while she completely zoned into it, which totally mesmerized ME as she sat with it gently in her hands, running her fingers over it, gently pushing the buttons, trying it on, etc. I had a crush on her and just to see her interested in anything about me was a trip. We know you really do this for the Ladies, Michael. 😋😄😉
I have a Casio watch from the 80's and it still works, it's a pain to change the battery and get the screen straight, but it works fine after all these years, I swapped a games watch for it with my best friend at school in 1987, we grew up together and now work together 45 years on, however he wants his watch back, the alarm is Green Sleeves and I love it, I might give it him back one day. lol
Nice job Mike...I love it. Yeah, sitting in a class of 200 in college, and on the hour, hearing dozens of watches go off was always great! My digital watch actually had a radio in it that you plugged headphones into. Wish I still had that one!
I sold a digital radio watch a few years back and was amazed by how much it sold for I then had to post it to the USA. Guessing it’s for guys like us who still remember !
@@MyRetroWatches say, while I've got ya here...what group do you recommend for some rebuild advice? I have a Bovet Rattrapante that I've rebuilt, but the chronograph hand catches somewhere and doesn't sweep smoothly. The drive wheel has a hairspring like the balance, so I'm hitting some friction point that grabs something until there's enough tension in that hairspring that it catches up. Needing advice. Thanks man!
I had one of these in about 1983, it was amazing for its time. I also have a vague memory of having a digital watch which played the starwars theme around the time. I do remember saving up some coupons (I can't remember what though, maybe Weetabix) sending off a couple of quid and getting a black James Bond digital watch which played the theme. I really liked that one!
Been watching your channel and you have inspired me to start a collection and buy watches to restore following what you do. Saw this and remembered i still had the first watch my parents bought me in the early 1970s...a red LED CBM time digital...a bit of a search through a couple of boxes and there it was, going to get a couple of LR44s tonight if i can and see if it'll live again! How to make a 57 year old feel 7 again.... 😂
Great job, thank you. Remembering this model and the trouble it got me in for exchanging it with another student for his automatic Seiko that was boring to him.
Brings back memories. I had one of these back in 1982. They were almost "disposable" in a way that my mom, rest her soul, would notice if mine was getting worn out and then she'd surprise me with a Casio Swordfish. That was my next one.
Hi! Thanks so much for making this video! I actually just picked up one of these watches (with guitar and 3 speaker holes, m-321) in great condition from a thrift shop for $10! It wasn't working, and I had never opened a watch before, so your video was a great help. I replaced the battery, but it still didn't work. Pressing the buttons didn't work either. I poked around and found out that there is an AC reset point. Jumping that to the battery did the trick. Fortunately I had a gasket and it is very clean inside. Thanks again for documenting this!
I made a digital watch timegrapher using a puls sensor hooked up to my oscilloscope and it goes down to picoseconds so you can see exactly when the pulse comes. Very accurate.
Nice job. The Casio clones and other LCD watches witch melodys is what started me into fixing watches... 20 years ago. Thank you for bringing these back to life.
Me, I am a major collector of Soviet quartz pieces... after so many going bad on me I can see why you don't like 'em lol I had a Chaika "big blue" resonator for a whole day and I dropped it... dead bloody cheap Soviet IC's /cry
What a great watch! Reminded me of Mr Pickering who made geography so boring that 'Happy Birthday' would ring out whenever his back was turned. Happy days. Looking forward to seeing your digital watch collection on My Watch Reviews 👍
Hi- if you love casio watches and wish better backlight for display I suggest to use smd leds for example MSL-538SW-N2 is 2x1x0.8 mm may satisfy you better
I like you am 50 (for two more months anyway) had one the blue resin case it was my first watch and yes I got it for Christmas 1980, I had a pavilion response to those tunes
This is great! I used to have one of those, but it had a gold-coloured guitar on a black background above the LCD screen. The functionality was exactly the same though. Fun times.
A trip to memory (or is it melody)lane for me as well. As I told on the Facebook group. My mom got irritated by me, playing the melodies a bit too ofen when I was a 10 years old kid, back in 1981. She took my watch away from me and said I would get it back later. When later came, she could not find the watch again. She insisted that she did put it in a drawer. But could not find it anymore. It was never "found" again. Is suspect (no matter what my mother says) that it must have ended up in the garbage bin. 😞
Mums always confiscated stuff and hid it in a drawer (a bin more like) I had my black widow catapult taken from mum and I never forgave her at the time…
Lovely watch and well done restoring it! I love the notes displaying with the melody! 34:54 You might have drained the battery since your carbon fiber tweezers are electrically conductive.
I had a silver watch with metal band in the early 80s that played melodies as well. One was "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)". Wish I remembered more details. Loved it. Any ideas?
I think the light pusher you may have put the "set" pusher which I seem to remember on some Casio they were less pronounced than the function pushers so less likely to inadvertently set the watch by casual presses, it would explain the different shape and size to the other 3.
@@MyRetroWatches I found it. It was an Ingersoll. Apparently there was a Zeon that played Beatles a too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LtDyqPyk8pA.html
Casio really knows to turn digital watched into something else .... I had a casio pocket game, same period of Nintendo G&W ... the sound was INCREDIBLE in comparison. The effects..... CASIO knows how to do it.
I'm 50 as well and... Oh man.... I remember these. Wow... Something I just remembered watching this.. I had a pac-man watch when I was a kid that you could play pac-man on. Can't believe I've just remembered that. I'd love to see that thing again.
I think half the boys in my 5th grade class had one of these in 1981/82, including myself. We used to drive the teachers (and our parents) nuts with these! IIRC, mine was a black case with gold trim. It's the only watch that I haven't found from my childhood. Wonderful memories! Great job on the resto (I actually enjoyed seeing all the gunk being removed 🙂)
Thanks Mike. Trip down memory lane. I have a much much cheaper Convoy in my collection. 7 melody, not as fancy as the Casio, but its enough to scratch that melody watch itch. Dean
Hello, I loved the video and the restoration has been wonderful. My most sincere. Congratulations. I have a question, do you know how to set the time in 24h format on this clock? Thanks greetings!
Geez interesting digital service !! I never know that you can put the module in IPA and ultrasonic absolutely good to know. Thank you for sharing it’s absolutely different and so instructive Thank and best regards Mike !!
Yes I just did it once years ago on a digital that had bad battery leakage and was pleased when it didn’t ruin it so I’ve done it ever since. On a dirty board it does wonders
Enjoyed that one Michael. You have altered my thoughts about timepieces mate, thank you. I only know a couple of the tunes, there was one in the middleish that had a definite Japanese ear to it. I think the last one is played as men walk innocently towards promised happiness ....... We could have a Dna test done on that yukky gunk and find the original owner or his relatives.
The speaker actually pries out pretty easily. It's held on by something like double-sided tape... This is actually not critical to keep in place as the module holds the speaker against the case all on its own. I was able to remove the speaker and see the grille from the backside. Looking through the grille, I was able to use a needle to poke through the holes and ensure that they were unobstructed.
The dodgy bugs. lol Who knows. Maybe they're watch bugs? New species? Either way, great video. I have a handful of electric quartz digital watches haven't dug into them yet. Been working on my older gears watches for the last 8 months. Might change it up and dig into my electrics. Good refresher video. I have great knowledge on soldering micro spaces and if I come across a movement that has a tricky chip set, I can solder bad connections on tracers. Cheaper then buying or finding new.
Thanks for your comment Jay. My heart is in mechanical movements but I love all watches so will try to repair or learn about how they work. Soldering is something I am dreadful on and on a micro scale even worse but I’ve still managed repairs so for you it will a breeze. Glad you enjoyed the video , maybe watch my Sicura Electralite video as that has a really crude circuit repair
Hey, Mike, have you ever considered working on a vintage mechanical alarm watch?. I have a Bulova Sea King with the 11ATRCD movement, and it is scary!. Though it was working (barely), it was crying out for help because it was a grimy gunky mess inside. Well, I am now in the trenches. It is cleaned and I am in the process of reassembly. Wish me luck...I'll need it! 🥴🥴😊😊
Well...catastrophe!. I wondered why the balance wheel wasn't taking off. Everything looked good. Here I nosed around and somehow the bottom jewel had fallen out. What's the jewel called the balance rides in?. Half the incabloc shield was broken off and the jewel came out. Then, I looked under my microscope and the balance staff pivot is bent. How that happened...I do not know. I didn't bump it or do anything to it that I am aware of. What a downer!.
What’s funny when I saw some videos on digital watches I rememberd I bought a Curtis Alarm Quartz watch back in the 80’s and when the battery died I just put the watch in my watch drawer. Last month I decided to open it up and replace the battery. Now the watch runs again that has Hour Month Min Date Sec Alarm and a light button. I did have to clean some blue battery leak powder before inserting the new battery.
I have quite allot! Some interesting ones too. Plan to film that one soon maybe in stages like Seiko , Casio etc. Will all be on my second channel as I’m trying to grow that one . My Watch Collection.
@@MyRetroWatches I have a 80's black one with solar panel strip,( i think its more for show) asked casio sth pacific and they cant find any record and so i still dont know what battery it takes.
Hi Mike, great video as always! I have a 1985 steel digital Casio with 100m WR (Marlin). I want to renew the gaskets to get it back its water resistance. Do you just have many generic gaskets lying around? And just grease on the pushers is enough like in the vid?
That’s a difficult one and no one will guarantee water resistance on an old watch. You can easily change the caseback gasket but pusher gaskets are really hard to size correctly given they are so small. Equally the pusher have to be removed and not all of them have e clips like this one in the video. Some you need a special press tool to remove them from the case. Then there is the crystal gasket which might be good but equally if an old watch of 40 years will have gone hard.
I am sat here polishing my "quality" whilst watching with interest as I have an ancient A904 Seiko I have long long not cleaned for fear of buggering it up beyond repair, finished my bronze Tandorio and now working cleaning my Aliexpress "Willard-o-like" then the usual weekly brasso wadding and dremel attack on my Soviet tank watches as very therapeutic polishing them... I do like my shiny :D
Brilliant video, have stripped and cleaned a solar LCD, all clean and working fine, just can't set time/date. Baffling as all is clean, buttons working fine. Any ideas please, keep up the digital watch video's, you do great detail and explain clearly.
Hard to say without seeing it. Must be contact related if the buttons are not working. Have to tried to set out of the case! Usually you can use a screwdriver on the contact pad to replicate the button.
I had this model bought from Dixon’s 1980/81. I was around 10 years old and needed to make my parents lives a misery until they bought it for me. I’ve still got it and it works but the case is down to the base metal in places where I tried to restore it as a teenager with a 40 grit disc abrader, thinking the case was solid steel and I could just ‘buff the scratches out’. I thought the best tune of the many stored in its memory was Kalinka, probably not the most popular number at the moment though.. I’ve also got the ‘solid’ gold Seiko memory watch 😊 1983 which is hideous and completely impractical. It was only worn a couple of times due to the class room ridicule before being relegated to the bottom of a drawer for decades.
Great repair! I have been restoring the case of a white stainless steel Casio H104. Does anyone know how to blend in paint on speaker plate? Mine has rubbed off in some places and I was wondering if any way to sort that out.
President Ford had a Seiko Bel-mattic and he would set the alarm and say he had a meeting to get to when he wanted to cut something short. I recently acquired that same watch and that’s part of the history of that watch. I like to know any historical reference for any vintage watches I have.
nice job on this one Mike, I love these vintage digital ones....really enjoy the videos of Vintage Digital Watches too...thanks for sharing mate, how is your health?
Thanks. Yes Tibi makes some great videos. He has done some repairs for me way back too. A really nice guy who is on the vintage digital watch Facebook group.
