Japanese Ricoh LED Watch w/ Box & Accessories on eBay

[pocketcalculatorshow]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0104505264

I think this is a nice piece for collectors, I've never seen this model before.

I don't know too much about LED watches but this is the first one I've seen that uses pushers with tiny magnets attached to them for input. Obviously, there's a larger magnet that is used for setting the watch but the module has four magnetic sensors for input (two for the pushers, two for hour/minutes setting).

If anyone is collecting manuals, I'd be happy to scan this one for someone, just keep in mind the text is entirely in Japanese. It does have diagrams and includes instructions for another Ricoh LED too.

[retroleds]

Sanyo made several with magnetic pushers(some sold as Sears) and all of your PUlsars and early Hamiltons and Omegas are using magnetic pushers. That Ricoh looks like it could have the Sanyo module from the shape of it.

[redled]

Wow, I didn't know anyone beside Pulsar made magnetic pushers. Learn something new everyday, well, in this case, something old.

[CompuChron]

Hey , don't forget the synchronar's !

[Synchroserious]

The Synchronar does not apply here.It does not have pushers or buttons.It has slider switches,probably the only one.

[embelton]

The Synchronar does not apply here.It does not have pushers or buttons.It has slider switches,probably the only one.

we are talking about magnets here,read again read right.

[Synchroserious]

I read in Three posts. "magnetic Pushers" ,There is a difference.Check your writting to Embelton.


Comphucron had a great point.If I were him I would have said the same thing.Learning is hard to swallow sometimes,but it is worth the effort.

[retroleds]

"Push" can be sideways or up/down...either way, aren't we pushing a magnet into the activating proximity of a reed switch? Let's not split hairs here Howard....gets people, well, you know 8) I'm thinking it was "my bad" for not including the Synchronar in the intital reply to the topic.

[redled]

That's true, i'd forgotten the Synchronar's. Given the essence of the concept under discussion, I would definitely include them in the group

[Synchroserious]

Like I said folks it is very understandable to call the "Magnetic Slider switch assembaly a Pusher. How could collectors not call it that if all the other ones refer to it as "The Pusher".There is some different Language when decribeing a Synchronar. We always used the term Module to mean the Electronic sealed encapsulated Lexan part and not the circuit board with all the parts exposed like the term usually means.


The Main difference is a pushbutton/pusher is a vertical thing and the Synchronar employs a lateral slide movement to activate reed switches. In Electronics they have push buttons and then they have slider or Horizontal switches


There is a prototype Synchronar with pushbuttons,but that was the only one ever made.In any case all Synchronar Literature refers to it as the slider switch assembaly,Magnetic slide bars, but never Pushers.The setting magnet and the switches were called a "slide bar" by Ragen In the Mk I instructions.Hey guys I even mess up and tell some people to push the switch away for time Instead of slide the magnetic slider bar switch away.(as in your body).
Maybe there is a horizontal push required to activate the slider switch.Most slider switches usually assume the person will be sliding it from the top instead of the side.

So there are differnet names for things,The Synchronar is in the group of watches controled by magnets and reed switches but give me credit for pointing out the differnt orientation involved when activating a reed switch to close the contacts from a horizontal motion instead of a vertical.


I hope the auction goes well ,that is a nice Ricoh with all the papers.