My Vintage Digital Watch Collection - 1970s-80 Nostalgia Fest !
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- In this video you will see (nearly all of my vintage digital watch collection. I will discuss each watch and then test its accuracy on the Seiko Quartz Tester QT99 Machine. Let Nostalgia begin!
Chapters
0:00 - 01:56 - Intro
01:56 - 03:21 - Beltime Digital Watch
03:21 - 05:16 - Commodore Digital
05:16 - 06:28 - Casiotron S-12
06:28 - 07:30 - Tissot Digital (using Casiotron S-12 Module)
07:30 - 08:57 - Casiotron World Timer S-14
08:57 - 10:08 - Testing Accuracy on Casiotrons & Tissot
10:08 - 11:32 - Casiotron 76CS-41
11:32 - 12:22 - Casio 51QR-19 and Casio 31QS-11
12:22 - 13:49 - Casio Melody Alarm
13:49 - 15:16 - Casio 56QGS-38
15:16 - 17:05 - Casio DataBank Phone Dialler & Casio CA86
17:05 - 18:41 - Casio G Shock
18:41- 19:54 - Citizen 57-1017
19:54 - 21:50 - Citizen Ana-Digi-Temp
21:50 - 22:49 - Citizen 41-9559
22:49 - 23:47 - Citizen 8290
23:47 - 25:15 - Citizen Accuracy Testing
25:15 - 27:00 - Seiko 0634-5019
27:00 - 29:35 - Seiko 0634-5009 & Seiko 0634-5001
29:35 - 30:30 - Seiko 0634 Accuracy Testing
30:30 - 31:36 - Seiko 0439-5007
31:36 - 32:49 - Seiko M159 -5028
32:49 - 34:14 - Seiko A029-5020
34:14 - 35:33 - Seiko 0439, M159 & A029 Accuracy Testing
35:33 - 37:46 - Seiko C153
37:46 - 39:55 - Seiko C359's
39:55 - 40:40 - Seiko C153 & C359 Accuracy Testing
40:40 - 43:22 - Seiko H239-500B & Seiko H239-502B
43:22 - 46:15 - Seiko H239 Accuracy Testing
46:15 - 4749 - Seiko A159 - 5019
47:39- 49:11 Seiko- G757-4050
49:11 - 49:53 - Seiko A134-5000
49:53 - 51:09 - Seiko M929-5010
51:09 - 51:57 - Seiko A134 & Seiko M929 Accuracy Testing
51:57 - 54:11 - Seiko M158-5000 Pan AM
54:11 - 57:08 - Seiko UC3000
57:08 - 58:00 - Citron (Spacesonic)
58:00 - 58:44 - Timex New Old Stock
58:44 - 59:19 - Xernus
59:19 - 59:49 - Casio CA851
59:49 - 1:00:54 - Trafalgar Talking Watch
1:00:54 - 1:03:26 - Casio Film Watch
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About me:
My name is Mike and I am a hobbyist watchmaker. I am completely self-taught in watch repair and restoration. My channel is all about my journey of hobbyist of watchmaking. I have watch repair tutorials, watch restorations and watch repair videos. Some of my content you can easily follow along to if you are working on the same watch movement. My main focus is to document my journey and inspire more people into this wonderful hobby and demonstrate that this hobby can be very rewarding. I do not profess to be a professional watchmaker and in my videos, I show all my mistakes, mishaps, highs and lows and keep everything as honest as possible. It is easy to edit all the mistakes out and make my videos look perfect but I believe that keeping it real reflects the true reality of this hobby. So what are you waiting for? please check out my watch repair and restoration videos, get inspired and start your own watchmaking journey.
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Also add here that I suspect I need watches to be at wrist temperature and possibly on the machine longer to get a much more reliable accurate reading !
I know many of you will comment!!!
All Watches (not for sale) can be found on my website with more details and photos of repairs etc myretrowatches.co.uk/category/digital/
Also add here that I suspect I need watches to be at wrist temperature and possibly on the machine longer to get a much more reliable accurate reading !
I know many of you will comment!!!
Great collection I’ve only one Casio AA-85 from 83 the blue thunder movie 😊
I remember back in the mid seventies when digital watches came out and I thought they were mind blowing, back then I was about 15 years old, now I collect Seiko digital watches myself and wish I did not sell some of them but I am building them back up and may start collecting some lesser branded ones too after watching your collection. I find them easier to work on than mechanical watches believe it or not. Cheers Mike.
... THE RED DIGITAL NUMBERS... One had to Press a Button for the Time Display... 1 Lad In My Middle School had One (Twat) ... Jealous Moi... Non Nein & Neither... 😂🏴🌄🌄🌄 2:50
Makes me appreciate my f91w more. Thank you for posting this!
My pleasure!
Fantastic collection! I felt kid again for an hour. If we had seen these watches in the school as here in one video we had gone crazy for them for sure. :) Thank you to show us what a lovely thing the retro digital watch world is.
Thank you.
That first Seiko you showed (world's first chronograph) is one I used to own. I went to a local Jeweler's shop that was going out of business, and they had two of them, both NOS, just sitting in a drawer for many years. I bought the best one, which looked brand new, for $35. I put it on ebay in 2010 and two people got into a bidding war over it. It sold for around $580 to someone in Italy.
The 0634-5019 is just a superb watch. You can’t regret the past, they are still available if you have the funds to pay for them now.
I still love and use old school digital watches. To this day. Love your channel!
Thanks Mike. Loved the walk down memory lane. Great watches. Cheers
Incidentally, I had that Timex at 58:00 as a teenager. I seem to recall you could press two buttons together to sound the melody alarm, to much classroom hilarity. Good to see one again, since I've searched for a nostalgic replacement for years.
Better than I expected. Excellent!
Fantastic collection, i love vintage digital watches.
what a throwback great video mate keep up the good work,
Thanks for posting a great video. It brought back many memories. 👍
Nice collection, by the way.
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Great video ,I had a few Seiko digital watches from the 80s ,
I still have the memory bank calendar model that I have discovered when cleaning out an old wardrobe,it has been there over 30 years ,it is unmarked and as new condition ,still keeps perfect time,
Keep up the great work.
What a fantastic collection, I have a few that I’ve inherited, so will never go anywhere! Great content and information as always, keep safe buddy 😊
Beautiful collection. Citizen wind surfing D060 and D120 definitely need to be added 😊
Hi dude, I am seeing you from Mexico and I love your videos those are simply amazing, I had one of the Citizens that you show in the minute 22:39 DIGITAL-ANALOG, and a year ago I lost it in a car accident, but it was lost working at 100%, that watch was a birth gift from my father when I was young (about 1984) and so far it was a tremendous lost for me, anyway thank you so much for your amazing videos, thank you. 😉
An enthralling and nostalgic showcase.
What a great collection I loved them all 👍thanks for sharing
That's a very cool collection. Thank you for the video 😎
I've got a Casio G510D I've had since it launched, one of the seals eventually failed in the caseback (way before I knew anything about repairing watches) there ended up being a bit of corrosion inside which as far as I can see, has rendered it dead. I have two of them after buying what I thought was a working donor from fleabay, you're welcome to them if you wanna have a crack at getting either/both going.
oh wow that is a watch collection. I really like these old digitals. Amazing to see the Casiotron & Tissot share the same engines.
I have a chronosport digital-Analogue from 1980. It is a UDT diving model, actually a rare off-shoot by the company Scubapro. Took me years to find someone (in Australia) that could replace the movement. It works perfectly and is one of my favorite watches. Awesome video, keep them coming!
Very cool collection. My family are very into watches and I have a modest collection. Lately my favorite watches are old digital watches. Im glad I found this channel! I may even attempt to fix up some old ones I have.
What a brilliant channel. Only just had it recommended!! Subbed!!!!❤🏴
Thank you. Hope you enjoy the content.
Fascinating, thank you 👍 . That film watch was brilliant, I wish they would re-release that one!
Really cool to see a collection like this!
My first watch was a Casio f84w bought for me by my parents on holiday. I keep looking at the reissued version and I think you might have tipped me over the edge to pick it up :D
Thanks for this video
Very informative
Some killer pieces, there's a couple I'll keep an eye out for
Absolutely beautiful collection man!👌
Thank you kindly
This was so much fun, at such a surprise! I'm totally hooked and subscribed.
I need to start shopping for vintage digital watches now.
Welcome aboard!
Wow! At 54, I remember so, so many digital watches from the 70s/80s.
My first was a basic Trafalgar, then a twin faced, red and black Timex, and even a radio watch with headphones… takes me back!
When at the first school a mate of mine had a red faced LED watch as big as a house brick, I was so jealous! Then to top it all off, the following year he got the James Bond themed watch! The bastard! 😂 you could tell the kids from the middle to upper classes! Cool video.
A lovely collection. I'm glad you showed some Citizens. The robot face white Seiko is georgeous.
Loved the video! So glad you went ahead and produced it, showing your digital collection. I almost choked when I saw the Citron...it instantly reminded me of a Battlestar Galactica fighter...LOL
Cracking collection, brilliant video. In fact, I'm about to grab a coffee and watch it again.
Excellent collection, impossible to pick a favourite. Do love the robot watches and that Casio film watch is just bonkers good.
Great video! I got my first digital watch for Christmas 1978. It had a small solar panel above the display, very advanced I thought for the time. Wish I had kept it, wore it day and night and loved checking the time at night using the backlight!
Amazing collection!!!
Cool collection, especially the Seikos obvs 👏👏
A really great collection. I love them all.
You have a very nice collection of collectables there young man! I love the fact that old digital watches are now vintage antiques lol. I remember when my mate at school had the first LED (push button to display the time) Casio, about 1977-8, we all gathered around and marvelled at this space-age Hi-Tech!
Great video.Nice to see a good watch video that's not just some crazy guy with more money than sense.
Excellent old skool digital watch collection.
I really enjoyed watching this video about these fantastic retro watches. I have quite a few Casio watches and have bought a couple of Armitron digital watches from America which is the 'Rubik' and a analogue/digital watch. I purchased them mainly because both are fully stainless steel compared with Casio which today are resin with chrome plating on them. The G-Shock you have in your collection with the stainless steel case and strap is probably the 5610 with it having both multiband 6 and radio controlled. I have two of those in my collection.
Thanks for sharing your collection.
I had Casio 12 melody alarm watch ,which I used for almost 15 years,till it's display was blank.
One more watch from casio was Blue Thunder 1980 ,which was amazing.
Thanks for the video.
I really enjoyed seeing your collection (or at least some of it), thanks Mike.
The quartz tester looks like a great bit of kit….
Thank you Simon . Pleased you enjoyed this one
Lovely review of your amazing collection.
Spotted a Tomlov TM4K on your bench there - I can recommend using the additional provided lighting ring - it's made a huge difference to the image quality for me.
That’s in for review actually. Personally so far it’s not a patch on the LinkMicro I reviewed and use all the time. The Tomlov has some good features but on normal watches it can’t capture the image as clear as the LinkMicro
That was a cracking edition, Mike. The Trafalgar reminded me of a watch i have in the dusty back drawer, a Seiko JDM watch for the blind, speaks the time in Japanese.
Thank you for the view of your collection. Impressive. It made me look at my 4 Casio calculator watches that are in my collection. All in good to excellent condition. But, I never wear them. Perhaps I will now.
i LOVE your vids mate!!!
Amazing collection
Fab video, love digital watches, that film watch was something else.Not seen a working one before.
It’s probably one of the most modern ones I have too but it’s a fascinating thing
Great collection ,I had the hexagonal Citizen ,actually it was the first watch my father bought for me when I was only ten years old 😍
Thanks Mike, your selection brought back some great memories. My first digital was Commodore LED from mums catalogue, hugely expensive for an 10 yr-old in 1978, £20 payable at 50p per week for 40 weeks from pocket money. Took 2 big LR44 batteries that only lasted a couple of months as I remember. Then my first LCD was a Casio 60QS in '81 (as a 13 yr-old) that my dad.' acquired' during a maintenance job at a Casio warehouse somewhere near London. I remember impressing my schoolmates with the 1/100th second stopwatch!I still have it proudly in my collection. I have an old Witshi quartz tester and have found that many quartz crystals do stabilise over a number of weeks/months after being inactive, so let the watch run for a while before touching the trimmer. I'm sure I don't have to say be really careful with the trimmers; most haven't moved in decades, so hold with tweezers to oppose any turning force, or they can break or lift the pcb tracks. If you can't adjust enough, a tiny gimmick capacitor can be made with some fine transformer enameled wire, twisted & soldered onto the trimmer contacts. Twist & untwist until the value is about right to get the rate down on your tester.
Good advice about the trimmer caps
Thanks for your advise on trimmers. I dont think i would go to the extreme of making a tiny capacitor, I like to repair mechanical watches so electronics and soldering irons are not a skill set I posses.
The commodore, was it the red LED version? I have that model. One of my favorites.
15:17
The Casio Data Bank with the speaker tone dialer!!
I had one years ago.
That was a cool little watch!
Was nice to have in the days of public pay phones for sure.
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Great collection!
Very nice collection,when casio,seiko and citizen were making steel watch with big quality...i would lime to see in youre collection a casio blue thunder who desrve to be between your perfect collection
Thanks Mike that was an excellent video super interesting 😊
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
You have inspired me to buy a battery after a few years and revive again the Seiko 0634-5009 inherited from my dad, who got it in the 1970s during a business trip to Japan, and it was a very expensive thing for a man from the eastern side of the Iron Curtain.
Awesome mate. I've a early neg display by 'Geotime', powered by 2 2032s....it looks like it fell from space! The film watch and that big lump of cheese thing just rock! People should stop pretending they spend half their time underwater and have a bit of fun....
That is an epic collection.
Great collection, I had a black Sinclair watch in my school days, and remember the first LCD watches coming to the market, love the look of the Film watch.
I have one here but I need to see if I can repair it. They are notorious for being faulty though.
I am very excited to see your watches. I don't have a lot o interest in digital wattches, but I'm curious to see them.
Great video mate!
To me "The ugly duckling" is aesthetically pleasing! It's giving me techno vibes! Very cool collection :)
Love the Casio Film Watch...great graphics..
Enjoy watching your videos, Mike.
Thank you
I like your work desk. Makes me want one of my own (though in black).
My dad bought the big calculator watch back in the 70's. I still have it and the stylus too. :) The screen is very faded, though the watch itself is like new and the calc buttons are still responsive. I remember it being expensive, but don't know how much he paid. In 82 I got the 'baby' one for a Christmas present. It still works too, though the case wears my teenage years. :)
A great collection of digital watches there!
I've got various, one of them is very similar to your first Seiko from the £58 joblot, mine is branded Le Gant, eventually a Seiko brand, with a Hamazawa (Seiko) module, i've got one well worn one i've had years, and a NOS one in the box that I got a few months ago, you might like this bit, it was from Coventry, Rhode Island ☺
Something I had been trying to remember, I tracked it down, 10 years ago I had an LCD watch branded National Semiconductor, early 70s, had a tritium gas backlight, a thin wide flat tube. I also had an analogue quartz by them with promethium lume.
Absolutely Fandabidozi Michael… Beltime my first digital watch Mum bought it me on my birthday from Dixons £14.99 a lot of money in 1978 -79 a choice between Alba and Beltime Swiss Made…. I thought Alba… didn’t they make cheap TV’s with Bush… didn’t know at the time it was a Seiko brand….
Anyhow some bugger nicked it during the PE lesson when all valuables were put into a tin box for safe keeping by the teacher… never got it back… cried all the way home… I was so proud of that watch still clear in my mind to this day… I hope who ever nicked it got his comeuppance..
The Casio Casiotron QW02 was equipped with the world’s first watch calendar that automatically adjusted for longer and shorter months. With a conventional watch, it was necessary to reset the calendar date on the first of each month, but the QW02 eliminated this hassle.
I didnt know this and now want one!
The quartz tester is an intriguing bit of kit. And a very nice look at a under appreciated genre of watches. Digital Seiko's were good enough for James Bond in the 70's and 80's!
That Data Bank Phone Dialer reminded me that i found an old phone dialer at work, it was inside a table that was going to the trash, popped a new batteries and it was still working. Wild times.
Formidable 😊 Thank you
Lovely stuff Mike! I'll find some more for you I'm sure😉
Thanks Nick. Really like the film watch. Still got to bring the Sinclair to the channel on due course
Love my Seiko 0634. Had several led watches prior but they only ever lasted a couple of weeks. I paid £165.00 for it new in 1976 when I was 18...Still works absolutely fine. wore it every day for years as my main timepiece. It's a bit scratched but i'm not bothered about that.
Bought several Seiko's since. all fine...currently using the 7T34-6A90.
nice collection I would like a few of them
I remember early digitals around '77, '78 in primary school, they were round cased LCDs with central letterbox screens. I didn't rate them as i had more exciting looking and less common LED type. Fast forward to secondary school and it was a sea of commodores, casio databanks, calcuators, melody's, and games. (Oh and the cool kids with new-fangled Swatch watches) I am now trying to collect every model i had as a kid in order. Led, databank, calculator, calculator flip, etc.
The best memory was sitting in an exam and hearing about 150 hourly chimes together! BEE-beeepBEEEEEPYbeep-beepBEEPeep!
Fantastic video - who doesn’t like vintage digital watches ?
The film watch was so animated, so cool. If someone made a more modern looking version of that one today I bet it would sell like crazy.
Nice collection. I lost some of old digital watches
very nice collection
Thank you very much for the video. The ugly duckling from Citizen is my absolut favourite Digi-Ana. I got it brand new in 1979 as christmas gift from my parents (but with the more conservative crystal colour scheme black and dark gray) using it as my daily watch until 1996. Actually the watch is still working with all functions and very good timekeeping. I am trying to restore it carefully step by step (case etc.) and collected a new crystal, a new original bracelet and original seals as spare parts until now. For me it is still a dream of my childhood. My current daily LCD-Watch is a nice modern Casiotron TRN 50 which I got as a gift from my wife one month ago but I still prefer the design of the ugly ducking vintage Citizen Digi Ana.😅
Fun memories. Another oddity of that time was that just a few years after the LCD digital watches were introduced, modules were showing up in pens, and digital watches quickly became very inexpensive.
One seiko watch you might want to look at is the M421-5010. It’s a digital watch. It has dual time zone, stop watch, two alarms, and countdown timer. It will also operate in 24 hours mode, and has a light. Water resistance of 100m.
That Casio Film watch is cool!😎
11:32 the Casio on the right side with round dial, i still have that one 10/10 condition (my Grandad's watch) love it.
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I think I had the same Timex watch shown at 58:00 during the 1980s, sadly I think it met it's demise in 1995 when it flew off my wrist into the road just as the bus I was waiting for arrived crushing it under it's wheels. The wrist clip was worn which meant it was prone to unclipping it's self, and the timing of the unclipping on that fateful day was terminal. 😒
Some interesting watches in your collection, I remember several of them being worn by others in the 1970s/1980s. 🙂
If you'll give those Old Digi Watches a little polish on your polishing machine those things will still shine and will actually look better and can be might as well useable, nice video thanks for sharing
Very nice collection. I have about 40 digitals from this era. I stopped collecting a while ago because a lot of them started to die. 😭 Seikos are probably my faves. M516 (ghostbusters/voice recorder), RC1000 and A966 are probably my most loved models. TOTALLY high tech (for the time) geekiness. 😁 I have the talking Trafalgar you have also. Fun fact: that watch was worn in Superman 3 by Richard Pryor. The prop team added an extra set of buttons on top of the watch for the movie, to look extra geeky… not that it needed it!
I didn’t know that about the Trafalgar!!! Thanks
The Heuer Chronosplit from circa 1979 is innovative and cool AF.
Love you and your manckey fingers. Please don't feel the need to shelter from those offended by people who've done a few hard days yakka in their lives. Seriously, what is the world coming to where someone spends hundreds of hours putting footage together detailing their hobby that consumes thousands of hours of their lives, only to be criticised about their finger hygiene (under a x25 microscope!). X x x
This a great video! I love to see the variety of models you have and which ones required work and which didn't. It seems like chance whether these hold up or not!
I'm curious if you have any experience with Seiko's 0138 module? I've been fascinated by the 0138-5000 for a while now and seeing this video makes me want to pick one up, though reliability still scares me. Do you have any thoughts on them?
sorry I have no experience on them .
Oh my God! That T-shirt! I dropped a cap jewel once in my kitchen... I was trying a bit of home hackery on a cheap movement. It was at that time I decided horology was not my bag!
Is it my eyes, or a trick of the folds... Or is that shirt missing an apostrophe for a passional "watchmaker's life"?
@@hydorah it’s a shirt I designed myself . Didn’t bother with apostrophe
My CASIO Protrek is amazing and i hope to pass it on oneday
thanks for such amazing videos 😄really love watching them ,i also had a thing with watches i really hate smart watches a nothing can match the yesteryears watches and workmanship .
with ❤ rohit from guwahati .india
Film watch is the best. Loved this video
Thanks. Film watch is pretty cool but the most modern digital I have.
Stylus? The Seiko C359 you operate with the tip of a mechanical pencil, with the graphite retracted. Conspicuously missing in your calcuwatch collection is the Casio TC-600 touch sensor calculator watch. A big screen, a touch screen (but not as we know it!), and a prophetic sign of things to come. I was king of digital watches wearing the TC-600 in my high school days, until I managed to nick the screen on the hidden tracers on the top of the screen. :(