EUREKA!!! I repaired my Seiko M159A 5095

[Cesar]

In a previous post i showed you a picture of my misbuy on Ebay.
Now it turns out it payed off anyway.

Here is my non working M159, bought on e-bay as non working hoping i could bring it back to life.
Unfortunatelly the LCD screen was broken and bled out...thus no hope and have to look for a new module.

I decided to take another gamble on a nice looking Seiko M159 5095 on Ebay.
As i could tell from the pictures all segments worked well.
The seller stated the 2 front buttons were operational but he was unable to set it.
He could not get the right button to do anything.

Hoping all it needed was a good cleaning of bad contacts i decided to buy it.
My winning bid was 27USD
Now all i had to do was wait for it to arrive.

Here is a picture.


Sure enough when it arrived it looked like a very nice watch which could be restored to it's former glory nicely.
Browsing the forum i soon discovered how to get the module out of its case.
Thanks to all you forum members out there.

Looking at the module i soon realised it did not need cleaning, it looks brandnew.
So what is the problem then...i removed the crown/stemm several times hoping
something would happen...but nothing.
Comparing it to my non repairable Seiko pushing and pulling out the crown felt different.
I figured something mechanical on the inside must have been broken...uhoh.
As i am not a watchmaker i thought an option might be sending it to someone from the forum who might
be willng to repair it for me.

After some more googling on the problem no solutions were there to be found.
I then stumbled on the digitalwatchlibrary website which had a tech guide for this watch.
Read it and i localised what i thought might be the problem.

Using this:

I started on opening up my non repairable Seiko as i could not do much damage to it.
As most screws were rusted because of water damage it turned out to be quite difficult.

Eventually i succeeded and i got the part i thought i needed and it was still good.
It is part #19 the setting lever.

Building up my confidence i started to take apart my partially functioning Seiko.
Sure enough it's setting lever was broken, replacing it with the salvaged part.
I put it back together.

Now it is a fully functional Seiko M159 5095, and i am so pleased it is a wonderful watch.
Having repaired it myself just adds some more sentimental value to it i think.
Now all i need to find is a nice original Seiko bracelet to go with it.

Ebay here i come!!!!!!

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

Great that you managed to fix it , these deserve to be rescued.
Good job

BTW,The original bracelet is numbered Z-169.
Here's mine, so you can see what it looks like.

[Cesar]

Hey hallo,

Bedankt for the info, at least now i know what to look for.
Yours is a very nice example of what mine could look like with some work.
I just bought a Seiko m154 listed with original inner and outer boxes and manual.
However on the pictures i could see it was the manual for this m159A watch.
So pretty soon when i find the original bracelet i will have the complete set.
It currently has a look alike CASIO bracelet whick looks almost similar but its smaller near te lug ends,
as can be seen in the above picture.

It says CASIO on the clasp which is sacrilege on a Seiko...

Groetjes Cesar

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

I just bought a Seiko m154 listed with original inner and outer boxes and manual.

Was it the goldtone one ?

It says CASIO on the clasp which is sacrilege on a Seiko...

I agree, and it's just as bad the other way around

[Cesar]

Yes the gold tone one....not the best example but good for daily wearing.
Hope it works, another gamble kind off, says just needs a battery.
Have to wait and see, i'll always have a nice box to put it in.

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

Oh, and a Z-168 bracelet from a A159-5009 is very similar and fits as well (20mm), if you can't find another M159-5059.
That A-159 might be a bit easier to find.

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

Yes the gold tone one....not the best example but good for daily wearing.
Hope it works, another gamble kind off, says just needs a battery.
Have to wait and see, i'll always have a nice box to put it in.

I saw it too, and i thought it was very cheap, good that you got it.

[Cesar]

Yes unfortunatelly there are currently no z-169 on the bay.
None show up on google either.
I will have to be patient, sooner or later one will show up
perhaps another forum member is reading this and has one laying in a drawer somewhere.
Who knows.... Keep the faith.

[Seiko&Casio Lcd's]

The styling is different but this is my M154:
http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/DWL/ ... m154-4018/

[Cesar]

Oh that is interesting, i hadn't noticed the difference in styling.
That too is a very nice clean look.
Not just the bracelet but also the case to accommodate the lug ends.
NICE!!!

[Cesar]

I agree, and it's just as bad the other way around

I second that, it's just as bad.

[Kasper]

nice work there