Identify watches I had as a kid

[barcoboy]

Hi everybody. I'm looking to identify and maybe acquire a few old LCD watches that I used to own as a kid growing up in the early to mid 80s.

The first one I believe I have been able to identify myself... it is a Shivas nine melody alarm watch that plays a different tune every day of the week, plus Happy Birthday and Jingle Bells. Found a video of someone with one on Youtube.

The other two I'm having a harder time tracking down. One is a four melody alarm watch that I remember playing Yankee Doodle in the key of A, and London bridges in the key of F, but I can't remember the names of the two other songs (I know the melodies though). The hourly chime on this watch was quite interesting as well... it was a double "bim bam" sound.

The other watch is a much simpler watch but has a very unique alarm sound. A 2000 Hz note plays for one second, then about a four second rest, then repeated 2000 Hz beeps that last 1/4 second followed by a 1/4 second rest (ie: two beeps per second). Not sure if that one has an hourly chime or not.

Any help anybody could provide for me to identify these would be greatly appreciated.

[fronzelneekburm]

Hmmm, guess we have someone with loads of musical sense here. There are soooo many melody wristwatches out there since this was probably a "killer feature" that was fairly easy to integrate.

Personally I'd rate some of the Casio melody watches as the best. There are some Casio that even have a graphical display that visualizes the notes of the melody. Prolly amazing if you are much into music (I can't read music sheets btw)...

There were even russian melody watches, of course with russian tunes. Some Casio for the Japanese market play traditional Japanese songs. Hell there were even Analog-Digital watches with melody alarm. I guess one of the coolest is probably the Ruputer since you can program not only your own applications but of course also your own melodies.

No idea what that morse beep alarm watch is, but kinda hard to identify a watch by its beeping i think.

[barcoboy]

How did you know I was musical?

I was able to figure out the name of the third melody... it is a section of "March of the Toreadors" by G. Bizet.

Still can't find the name of the 4th tune.

[Seiko Kid]

Casio Ax-210 series?

[Adam]

You can listen to the AX-210 here

http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/casio_ax-2101/

If you go and look at melodies button on the front page of the site you'll see in the listings I have recorded a lot and added them to the watch listing as I have had them in my hands

http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/catego ... leasedate/

Adam

[barcoboy]

Nice! Thanks Adam. I've found watch #2!

http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/ ... _melodies/

Great site.