Today quartz watches except the expensive (>=$1000) Omega and the like are crap when it comes to precision. Even a great step up from the discount watches they don't keep time very well. You're lucky if it stays within 1 sec/day! That's my experience. So now I stick to radio controlled so it's never off by more than a few seconds if it couldn't sync in a few days in row.
@HifiCentret In contrast I have a few quartz clock and watches from the 80s. They're much better than new ones even though they've not seen a regulation since they left the factory. Only new ones I have with good precision beside an Omega is a Danish made talking clock for blind people with a Seiko integrated RTC chip and a few LED kit clocks which can be adjusted by µC compensation or trimmer capacitor for the x-tal (and one I modified for a trimmer which was not part of the original design).
I had a SEIKO like the one in frame 0:11 back in late 70's thru 80's. I wish I knew what happened to it. It was a great watch. I remember being so amazed that your wristwatch also had a stopwatch and an alarm to it.
They just don't make decent digital watches anymore. All the best made ones have hands, digital is seen as the cheaper watch and most of them are plastic.
My wife wants a new watch. She wants digital, but we can't find anything as good as her old one.
I love how the woman says they're not waterproof and they can't take rough handling. The whole time she was saying it I was thinking 'G-Shock...G-Shock....G-Shock...'.
Gotta agree, that part made me laugh pretty hard. I know of an old Casio F91 (available for 12$) that survived 6 or 7 accidental trips in the washing machine, extended swims/dives in the ocean and also several drops from wrist height on various surfaces. Finally it died though - it fell out of a window (wristband latch got loose in the most unfortunate moment possible) and hit concrete 15 meters below. It was still running, but the LCD was broken so that only the seconds were still visible.
I hear you. I have a Casio F81 from the 1980 that is still functioning to this day. I had replaced the battery about four times and the band about 12 times, but the watch itself is built like a tank. It is just as accurate from the day I got it new, Casio watches are timeless. The 2320 batteries are getting hard to find, so I need to stock up on those just for this watch
the 4 functions thing was quiet funny! our spoiled society today would probably never buy one with only 4 functions! most people seem to think - the more- the better!
Today i resurrected my old LCD-watch build in 1978 and made a video of it for youtube.
In your video at 0:06 thats looks absolute exactly like the interieur of my MBO-watch! The housing is quite different, but the interieur is exactly the same!!
I finally I found your video
adidaskevhef 2 months ago
now thats what i call a good video!
nguoikomangho10 2 months ago
Wow.
vioravisionhd 2 months ago
Ok ok ok. My mum even went like :O after watching this.
xbicas 2 months ago
They had not invented G Shocks yet
cornerstone228 6 months ago
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whotaughtyou 7 months ago
Today quartz watches except the expensive (>=$1000) Omega and the like are crap when it comes to precision. Even a great step up from the discount watches they don't keep time very well. You're lucky if it stays within 1 sec/day! That's my experience. So now I stick to radio controlled so it's never off by more than a few seconds if it couldn't sync in a few days in row.
HifiCentret 10 months ago
@HifiCentret In contrast I have a few quartz clock and watches from the 80s. They're much better than new ones even though they've not seen a regulation since they left the factory. Only new ones I have with good precision beside an Omega is a Danish made talking clock for blind people with a Seiko integrated RTC chip and a few LED kit clocks which can be adjusted by µC compensation or trimmer capacitor for the x-tal (and one I modified for a trimmer which was not part of the original design).
HifiCentret 10 months ago
You ask a dealer if the watch can be regulated and he's gonna be like 'Wat??'
VictorHugo289mex 1 year ago
dang these watches are the future!
KingIshaqq 1 year ago
so does it have real crystles in it?
sweettooth80 1 year ago
Hey 'i got one of these to sell ,coming to eBay soon
MegaTimepiece 1 year ago
I had a SEIKO like the one in frame 0:11 back in late 70's thru 80's. I wish I knew what happened to it. It was a great watch. I remember being so amazed that your wristwatch also had a stopwatch and an alarm to it.
WilliamRowlett 1 year ago
They just don't make decent digital watches anymore. All the best made ones have hands, digital is seen as the cheaper watch and most of them are plastic.
My wife wants a new watch. She wants digital, but we can't find anything as good as her old one.
bukster1 2 years ago
I love how the woman says they're not waterproof and they can't take rough handling. The whole time she was saying it I was thinking 'G-Shock...G-Shock....G-Shock...'.
teutonicpenguin 2 years ago 2
Gotta agree, that part made me laugh pretty hard. I know of an old Casio F91 (available for 12$) that survived 6 or 7 accidental trips in the washing machine, extended swims/dives in the ocean and also several drops from wrist height on various surfaces. Finally it died though - it fell out of a window (wristband latch got loose in the most unfortunate moment possible) and hit concrete 15 meters below. It was still running, but the LCD was broken so that only the seconds were still visible.
dahuz795 2 years ago
I hear you. I have a Casio F81 from the 1980 that is still functioning to this day. I had replaced the battery about four times and the band about 12 times, but the watch itself is built like a tank. It is just as accurate from the day I got it new, Casio watches are timeless. The 2320 batteries are getting hard to find, so I need to stock up on those just for this watch
gmlasam 2 years ago
If you want to know anything about Nooka watches click on my channel have unboxed a couple of Nookas so you can see the watch all around
MadUnboxing 2 years ago
the 4 functions thing was quiet funny! our spoiled society today would probably never buy one with only 4 functions! most people seem to think - the more- the better!
0:32, this guy needs a shaving! geeze!
Nudelsalatbomber 2 years ago
Now you can get a radio controlled digital watch. these set themselves and adjust the summer winter times
palexandersquires 2 years ago
Today i resurrected my old LCD-watch build in 1978 and made a video of it for youtube.
In your video at 0:06 thats looks absolute exactly like the interieur of my MBO-watch! The housing is quite different, but the interieur is exactly the same!!
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