Strangely Rare Fossil LED Watch Restoration
Added 2023-12-03 00:25:32 +0000 UTCA short little show and tell video became a full length project in this one. Basically two videos for the price of one! When you think it's all over, wait a little longer.... and Enjoy!
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At around the same timeI had one that was the exact same 'action,' but it was the chrome band and a round red crystal (with 'FOSSIL' engraved & painted white).
Mike Stubbs
2023-12-07 03:43:35 +0000 UTCNo soldering, all microscopic bonding wire (microwelding) and cast over in acrylic (the bubble lens).
Fran Blanche
2023-12-05 18:20:29 +0000 UTCI was in an abandoned watch shop back in the mid 80s and found 3 bags of those inserts with the bubble LEDs and potted-over chip. It turned out they were using the same electronic module in a variety of different watch housings. I don't think is was for deception, but a method of reusing the same guts for all kinds of watch styles. I forgot all about them until your video. Thanks for the memories!
Matt Wietlispach
2023-12-05 18:19:11 +0000 UTCNo use replacing the solder on the back of the board where the LEDs are soldered in? LED watches are in huge demand. Big $$$ on eBay. Mechanical watches are my passion. 0.3mm pivots spinning inside jewel bearings at 36,000 beats per second. The new Seiko constant force Kodo tourbillon is the ultimate movement. Seiko's mic drop/in your face to the Euro snob watchmakers' moment.
Steph Traeger
2023-12-05 10:31:07 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite watches died recently, it was a Casio Cosmo Phase and had a small orrery on the dial showing the approximate positions of all the planets. They don't seem to be that rare on eBay, but they cost a lot more than the $58.39 I paid in 1991.
David Peaker
2023-12-03 16:21:16 +0000 UTCI had a watch like that LED display as a teenager. It went through batteries fast. I got my first Casio LCD watch a few years later and the battery lasted ten years.
Nuts 'n' Proud
2023-12-03 12:03:37 +0000 UTCNice! You definitely picked the better case. That is one to be proud of. I feel like the bezel is shifted slightly to the right in its dovetail. Is that a trick of the camera angle or maybe my imagination? Cheers!
Fred Patton
2023-12-03 07:06:06 +0000 UTCLooking forward to watching when I get some free time. Sweet!
Bob Darlington
2023-12-03 02:14:18 +0000 UTC⌚️ 👍
-Jeff-
2023-12-03 01:26:56 +0000 UTC
