My first vintage digital, Can I get a little help/advice?

[Terry]

Complete n00bie here, I'd love to pull the trigger on this, will I be wasting my dough? I think it's kinda cool.

I looked through the Casio catalogs and didn't see it, what is it?

"Just needs battery" but yeah I'm sure you've heard it all before..... $40 bucks will secure it.

Anything I should look out for?

Thanks for reading this and an experts thoughts will be appreciated.

[KARNAK]

Hi Terry,
Welcome to the best forum. If this watch is off EBAY please be carefull, this is a favourite of posters on EBAY "JUST NEEDS A BAATTERY" wish I had a few $'s for every time I have read this familiar phrase on EBAY. There are many experts on this forum that will guide you in the right direction. Best of luck.
Regards,
KARNAK

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

This is not a vitage watch, but still nice, i think it looks like a casio hotbiz ?
But i don't trust that display ,it's all black that means the display is cracked or it could be a negative display but not sure, i would not take the chance.
Why not buy a real vintage one

[Adam]

I think its the Casio Futurist (A200?) They did also come with inverted lcds so it may work with a new battery. Dont forget to short the AC with the battery when you've changed it.


Heres a photo on the library of it

http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/DWL/ ... sio-a2001/

regards


Adam

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

I stand corrected, it is an inverted display like adam says.

[Adam]

Its an easy mistake to make the one in the photo sat in a spare parts drawer for a few months before I realised it was an inverted panel.


Adam

[Terry]

Thanks for your advice guys, It is on a non-ebay auction site. I still think it's a cool looking watch, but I might let this one slide and grab something a little more, shall we say vintage.

As an aside, how do we define "vintage" in digital watch terms? Pre 1989?

[Lillegutt]

I bought one of these a couple of years ago, also with the inverted screen. I wore it for a few months. It looks good, but it's a nightmare to read the numbers due to the inverted display.

My advice is to pick up one of these with the non-inverted display. The working ones are not very expensive on ebay. None on there right now, but they turn up from time to time.

Here's a couple of similar ones (the A220):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1000894905
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1083473881


JHH

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

As an aside, how do we define "vintage" in digital watch terms? Pre 1989?

A tricky question, but for me personally the digital lcd watches from 1973 to 1986 are the "vintage" ones.
Maybe someone else has a different opinion ?

[Alex]

Welcome to the forum friend
Nice starting with that Casio, I have one too but with vibrate Alarm!
Good luck with it, just try put a fresh battery inside and then make AC.

[Lillegutt]

Here you got one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0888817813


Good luck!


JHH

[elceedee]

Hi Terry, wellcome!
In my personal experience you cant really go wrong with the Lithium powered LCD's, they seldom have battery leakage. If there's no water damage the movements are often okay.
The 'fun' part with these Casio's is that most of them (especially more the modern ones) wont work after the battery change. But they immediately start working after a grounding them (tweezer on 'ac' and + pole of the battery, or the case)
Often sellers think its broken, if they tried to replace the battery themselves and don't know the grounding part.
I expect this watch to work after battery replacement, its a fun 'retro' model.
Goodluck!