Module only works when pushing time button

[egomon]

I bought a watch -you know where- and it was listed as non working.
OK. I put in new batteris and it did light up when i pushd the button, BUT it only seams to work (counting secons) when i push the button. And when I pushd the setting button and the time button all the segments light up at the same time.

I found a old thread here with the same problem, but no wreal answer to the problem. Maby someone has had the same problem and found the selution?

The module has no corrosion.
In some modules there is a contact to the casing but this module does not have one-I think, there is no place for it, so the problem is not the missing contact to the cassing-I think

What might be the problem in this case....?
If somone knows something let me know


Thanks

[retroleds]

A picture would help a lot. There are various ways for a watch to get the electricity it needs to keep the clock work between button pushes. Most are fairly internal, not relying on secondary contacts between the batteries and the circuit, or the batteries and the case.

on the other hand....
Hughes, some later Frontiers, some 29mm Fairchilds, some Uranus: A side contact is used in the battery well where the negative side goes down, tapping off 1.5 volts just for the clock. If the module has a side contact like that and the [negative side down] battery falls out when you tip the watch over, the contact probably isn't making good enough contact. Gently bend the tp of the contact to strike the battery side better, problem solved(usually).

[retroleds]

In some modules there is a contact to the casing but this module does not have one-I think, there is no place for it, so the problem is not the missing contact to the cassing-I think

The "contacts to the case" scenario is generally so the buttons work, not so the watch keeps ticking forward when not displaying the time. Different issue entirely..

[egomon]

This is how the module looks like.
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[egomon]

Ideas enyone?