Oh Gawd! Now I'm restoring watches!

[Lasonic TRC-920]

OK, OK, OK before the "He's Crazy" comments come flowing in (and I know they will ). I want to tell a little background on these watches.

In the late 1970's and early 80's when the digital watch revolution came into play, I was floored and amazed with the melody watches from Casio and Armitron. My family never had the money for such "useless luxuries" as my dad would call them and when a few of the other kids at school would show them off I was so jealous. There were many models of course. I don't remember the exact one I lusted after.

But I found this one today at the swap meet. Got it for $10, not working. Thought I could just put a battery in it. I took it down to Batteries Plus to have them install it. They did and found it didn't work. The screen kind of flashed some digits, but cut out. . The kids gave me back the watch with the battery in it for FREE.

I showed it to my wife and got the "Well that was a waste of $10". :annoyed: No....No way man!

NOW IT'S ON! :annoyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abaX7AZrfh4&feature=youtu.be

 

[-GZ-]

That is awesome, Chris!

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Good job Chris!

 

[Fatdog]

You're crazy!

But seriously, good job. There's no way my old-ass ears would ever hear that alarm.

 

[hemiguy2006]

Very cool. I remember those. Kids had those at school and used them to piss the teachers off.
Great job restoring it.
Looks real nice

 

[Superduper]

Flew over the cuckoos nest, I reckon.

 

[Northerner]

Nice!

 

[JustCruisin]

That's kool! Still, I couldn't stop laughing when the alarm went off..
I would like a Casio calculator watch someday..

 

[ralrein1]

Holy Moly! Now I've seen it all! Ha!ha,ha! Actually you did a very nice job on that cool old watch. You brought it back from the dead and where very clever about figuring out how to do it. Very nice job!

 

[mancardo]

Nice job Chris!!!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

That's kool! Still, I couldn't stop laughing when the alarm went off..
I would like a Casio calculator watch someday..

Yeah, wasn't the most stoked on the song, but what ya gonna do.

I did however parade it in front of Mrs Hausfrau and she said "for the three and a half hours you spent working on that, you could have earned significantly more going to work" :nugget: :annoyed: Doesn't she see the "Art" man?

Whatever.... :fly-kite:

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Thanks everyone, "I'm Not Crazy"

Wish this was the song on the watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ

 

[JustCruisin]

"All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi!"

 

[ford93]

Wish i could turn back time.

Those were the days man!!

Yeah Chris i too had a love for Casio watches can't remember the models but i had quite a few back then. Armitron not so much but i also had a few Timex watches.

 

[blu_fuz]

As my daughter would say 'you are a good fixer'

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Wish i could turn back time.

Those were the days man!!

Yeah Chris i too had a love for Casio watches can't remember the models but i had quite a few back then. Armitron not so much but i also had a few Timex watches.

I need to make a list of model numbers so I can go back to the swap meet and find one with a better song Maybe I'll sell this to Bo or Luke Duke! I know that Casio made a watch that played The Beatles "Hey Jude". I bet that's worth a fortune.

As my daughter would say 'you are a good fixer'

Thanks Joe.

 

[oldskool69]

And it's playing "Dixie"!

 

[baddboybill]

That is awesome Chris as a matter of fact I use to have exact watch in da 80's. miss that watch and just like Boomboxes and Walkmans I use to buy different watches back then. 2 thumbs up👍👍. By the way got this watch in 1982 for my graduation from my parents. I still have it and it works great. Even has inscription on back 😀

 

[caution]

Nice find Chris! I used to own one similar to that Armitron. I collected digital watches long ago, always liked the interesting features. I had a Timex that you held up to your computer screen to download games into it and a Casio with a backlit touchscreen. Miss those days...

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

And it's playing "Dixie"!

I don't have the instructions and can't seem to find them online but on the face there are directions on what the buttons do and one of the buttons says "Song". I believe I can change the tune, if I can figure it out!

That is awesome Chris as a matter of fact I use to have exact watch in da 80's. miss that watch and just like Boomboxes and Walkmans I use to buy different watches back then. 2 thumbs up👍👍. By the way got this watch in 1982 for my graduation from my parents. I still have it and it works great. Even has inscription on back 😀

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AH-MAZING! Man, you don't get rid a nutt'in do you!
That is a great momento to have.

Nice find Chris! I used to own one similar to that Armitron. I collected digital watches long ago, always liked the interesting features. I had a Timex that you held up to your computer screen to download games into it and a Casio with a backlit touchscreen. Miss those days...

I too had a casio that downloaded off the screen. The problem was, if you were light sensitive it would give you a stroke when the screen flashed the pattern!
I had many casio watches, data banks, calculators ect. But never any watches that played songs.
I had a few friends in Jr high school (1980-81) that had some trick watches. One that had an FM receiver and a headphone jack and one that played a video game. It may have been frogger.