1980s CASIO DIGITAL MELODY ALARM - Watch Restoration
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- A trip down nostalgia lane with this 1980s Casio Melody Digital Watch.
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Chapters
Intro 0:00 - 02:53
Disassembly 02:54 -14.32
Microscope Inspection 14:33 - 21:33
Pusher Removal 21:34 - 24:43
Cleaning 24:44 - 25:51
Microscope Inspection 25:52 - 27:36
Assembly 27:37 - 36:33
Pusher Installation 36:33 - 39:29
Testing 39:30 - 43:52
Clean and Fit inlay 43:53 - 46:21
Summary 46:22 - 53:16
All the Melodies 53:17 - 56:37
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Also I would suggest cerulam oxide the crystal to remove those very obvious and light splitting scratches to give you a good clean surface would immensely help its overall look :)
Great find. Also I really like the bracelet. Battery meter. Wow! 🤩
I made a donation. I think it got rejected because of international. I’ll try y later. Paul. Ohio usa
It's not just a digital watch... it's a smile generator.
Certainly agree with that statement!
@@MyRetroWatches That watch looks super familiar to me, but I don't remember owning a Casio. I did have a couple Nelsonic watches as a kid, and I have to wonder if they shared components.
I was in 5th grade, everyday at noon I go to the school roof, when the sun is in middle of the sky, to hear my melody casio sings the big bin tune... And that feeling I will never forget.... I love the 80s.
Good work! I bought this from new, but with the black plastic case and it works just fine today.
The watch can also display the time in 24h format. The tunes are:
Daily Alarms
Mo: American Patrol (F.W. Meacham)
Tu: Santa Lucia (Italian Folk Song)
We: Romanza de amor (Spanish Folk Song)
Th: Marche Royale (French Folk Song)
Fr: Kalinka (Russian Folk Song)
Sa: Sakura Sakura (Japanese Folk Song)
Su: Moments musicaux (Franz Schubert)
Time Signal: Big Ben
Date Signal: Wedding March
Birthday: Happy Birthday
Xmas: Jingle Bells
I sent you the user-manual.
Well done Andreas.
Thanks for this and well done. I have saved your post so I can remember the names of the scores. Yes I found the 24 hour feature too just must not have mentioned it in the video.
Hello, could you tell me how to set the 24h format? Please.
@@fullbring935 Sorry for the delay, I was on a travel and had no access to my papers.
To set 24H, press and hold the lower right button, press the upper left button, release both. Done.
@@andreasekart3853 Ohh, thank you very much!!, it worked. It was very hidden.
I really appreciate your help,
Thanks very much buddy.
New to the channel and just saw this video suggestion. Its midnight so I've added to my watch later (see what I did there) list. I used to have one of these when I lived in Saudi and I LOVED it! Sadly long gone.
I just picked one up. I’m having trouble getting the back case off. Glad I found this video! Thanks!!
Love this vintage casio melody watch brings memories as a kid those watches were all the rage back then great vid
Yes its definitely a trip down memory lane
That brought back so many memories, thank you 🙏
What a throwback. I need one. Great Mike
Great find. Love the watch and especially the bracelet high tech
My first digital watch ❤
Never Seen that Casio before. Great! Thanks a lot for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it . Thanks
Great work with the casio melody watch 👏. A blast from the past BRILLIANT 👌.
Great watch and video! Thanks for posting… !!!
Thanks for watching
Lots of fun - thanks Mike
Back in 1980 I fell in love with this watch, it was in Boots on a board where you could play with it and listen to the alarms, left school and got my 1st job in 81 where I saved £25 and bought it - 1 year later after my YTS job finished I got a job in a bakery, whilst making meat pies, I noticed the top strip where the speaker is - was missing? Obviously went in to a pie, so after that, I took it to pieces and painted the reflector with yellow fog lamp paint, a bit like nail varnish set up... a long time later, I still have the module with the speaker glued on - where the case went is anybody's guess? lol... 41 years later I can still go upstairs and pick the fully working module up minus the battery - with a yellow screen lol :)
Keep the digital watch content coming!! One day I will need to invest in learning more about fixing watches. Huge part of the hobby I’m missing out on
I am sure you can do it. Okay digital watches you might need more specialized equipment like an oscilloscope and a quartz tester. However the basics of stripping them down , cleaning and rebuilding anyone can do and it does fix allot of watches. In the next week or so I will start filming my digital watch collection on my second channel. Should be fun!
I had this exact model!I miss it so much! It was one of the coolest gadgets for a younger person in the 80s... I was 20 then.
Wish I still had mine. My grandfather gave it to me when I was little and it got me hooked on watches. Was my first watch.
Great job, thank you. Remembering this model and the trouble it got me in for exchanging it with another student for his automatic Seiko that was boring to him.
I really enjoyed. This would be a fun watch to have.
Thank you. Brings back the memories this one.
Nice job. The Casio clones and other LCD watches witch melodys is what started me into fixing watches... 20 years ago. Thank you for bringing these back to life.
Glad you enjoyed the video and pleased you have been repairing digitals! So many need to be saved.
Great stuff Mike,I'm glad you got it running well!
Another watch from you that’s been on the channel!
Hi! Thanks so much for making this video! I actually just picked up one of these watches (with guitar and 3 speaker holes, m-321) in great condition from a thrift shop for $10! It wasn't working, and I had never opened a watch before, so your video was a great help. I replaced the battery, but it still didn't work. Pressing the buttons didn't work either. I poked around and found out that there is an AC reset point. Jumping that to the battery did the trick. Fortunately I had a gasket and it is very clean inside.
Thanks again for documenting this!
You did well! The one with the guitar is very desirable and worth well over 10x what you have paid!
Great video... you have to love a vintage casio. I'm following, because I'm invested. 👍👍
Brings back memories. I had one of these back in 1982. They were almost "disposable" in a way that my mom, rest her soul, would notice if mine was getting worn out and then she'd surprise me with a Casio Swordfish. That was my next one.
Nice work, Mike!
Thank you.
That watch takes me back to 80s I'm about same age as you. Was a great watch got mine off my dad for bday, loved it.
Very interesting video about this "memory" watch 😀
Holy Moly! Had this in grade school! Subbed because of this episode 😊
A trip down memory lane!! Thanks for the sub
Great work Mike brings back those great memories indeed. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thanks Bruce. Funny how we attach memories to items. Ahh the 80s
Been watching your channel and you have inspired me to start a collection and buy watches to restore following what you do. Saw this and remembered i still had the first watch my parents bought me in the early 1970s...a red LED CBM time digital...a bit of a search through a couple of boxes and there it was, going to get a couple of LR44s tonight if i can and see if it'll live again! How to make a 57 year old feel 7 again.... 😂
Leds are much more fragile. If it had batteries left in it for a few decades it’s likely to be broken beyond repair but here is hoping!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I never had one of these but I remember wanting one. They were the iPhones of our generation (1972).
72 was a very good year!
Digital watches. Sinclair Spectum ZX81, BBC micro and then a commodore 32k
All the beginning of the new world of tech
@@MyRetroWatches I waited for the Commodore 64 with the 2 foot long disk drive
But I did have the Sinclair 16K or 32K, can't remember. 😛
I have a Casio watch from the 80's and it still works, it's a pain to change the battery and get the screen straight, but it works fine after all these years, I swapped a games watch for it with my best friend at school in 1987, we grew up together and now work together 45 years on, however he wants his watch back, the alarm is Green Sleeves and I love it, I might give it him back one day. lol
I remember this watch from the very early '80s and I was going to buy one but instead went with a TI and was happy with that but I always thought this one was cooler because of the music. The Texas Instruments seemed 'adult' and more rational, but I love that Casio and it's great to see that yours works so well again.
And you're absolutely right about mesmerizing for kids in school. I had a girl who sat next to me in social studies and her family were recent Russian expatriates. She had never seen a digital watch like the Texas Instruments. Most kids who grew up during the Soviet era could not hope to have such things. She was mesmerized by it and asked me to look at it at her desk for about an hour while she completely zoned into it, which totally mesmerized ME as she sat with it gently in her hands, running her fingers over it, gently pushing the buttons, trying it on, etc.
I had a crush on her and just to see her interested in anything about me was a trip. We know you really do this for the Ladies, Michael. 😋😄😉
Haha of course all this watchmaking brings in the ladies! Especially when I show them my melody alarms !
Nice job Mike...I love it. Yeah, sitting in a class of 200 in college, and on the hour, hearing dozens of watches go off was always great! My digital watch actually had a radio in it that you plugged headphones into. Wish I still had that one!
I sold a digital radio watch a few years back and was amazed by how much it sold for I then had to post it to the USA. Guessing it’s for guys like us who still remember !
@@MyRetroWatches say, while I've got ya here...what group do you recommend for some rebuild advice? I have a Bovet Rattrapante that I've rebuilt, but the chronograph hand catches somewhere and doesn't sweep smoothly. The drive wheel has a hairspring like the balance, so I'm hitting some friction point that grabs something until there's enough tension in that hairspring that it catches up. Needing advice. Thanks man!
This is great! I used to have one of those, but it had a gold-coloured guitar on a black background above the LCD screen. The functionality was exactly the same though. Fun times.
Yes I have seen the guitar ones when researching this one and now I kind of want one to complete the set!
I had a no-name melody watch that would play "Fur Elise" as an alarm in the late 80s, thanks to my dad. It also had 2 flaws: a single slant crack on its acrylic crystal, and at the slightest shock, its time would reset (thinking back, it might just have been a loose battery). Since I was just a kid with thin wrists, I would wear it pretty loose, but I loved it! Over the years, I lost it somewhere, but that was my first love for watches! Since then, I have had many many watches, and currently have a 100+ Casio (mostly)/HMT/Citizen/Seiko watch collection.
Wonderful ! A lad in my class had 1 that played Beatles tunes. I was so jealous.
Someone else mentioned a Beatles one. Love to know who made that one.
@@MyRetroWatches I found it. It was an Ingersoll. Apparently there was a Zeon that played Beatles a too ruclips.net/video/LtDyqPyk8pA/видео.html
@@MyRetroWatchesyes I owned a Casio M30 bought from Argos 1985 and that had 30 songs on it including The Beatles Hey Jude
Impressive device, it's a masterpiece.
Really nice watch.
Thank you
Great old watch, not one I remember having, but a had a great few. Cheers and stay safe buddy
Thank you Darren. Digitals were fun back then. Pressing the light button in the dark and being amazed by it!
I had one of these in about 1983, it was amazing for its time. I also have a vague memory of having a digital watch which played the starwars theme around the time. I do remember saving up some coupons (I can't remember what though, maybe Weetabix) sending off a couple of quid and getting a black James Bond digital watch which played the theme. I really liked that one!
I must have had one of these. Those rising two notes as you cycle through the features is burned into my mind.
Geez interesting digital service !! I never know that you can put the module in IPA and ultrasonic absolutely good to know. Thank you for sharing it’s absolutely different and so instructive Thank and best regards Mike !!
Yes I just did it once years ago on a digital that had bad battery leakage and was pleased when it didn’t ruin it so I’ve done it ever since. On a dirty board it does wonders
@@MyRetroWatches perfect thank you Mike !!
I'm not a fan of electronic watches, but it was interesting to watch you repair this watch. Thank you for your hard work and diligence.
Me, I am a major collector of Soviet quartz pieces... after so many going bad on me I can see why you don't like 'em lol I had a Chaika "big blue" resonator for a whole day and I dropped it... dead bloody cheap Soviet IC's /cry
Thank you for watching. I promise back to a mechanical watch with hands on the next video!
@@dodgydruid Soviet electronic watches are quite reliable and workable. In Belarus, electronic watches are still being produced in small batches.
Lovely watch and well done restoring it! I love the notes displaying with the melody!
34:54 You might have drained the battery since your carbon fiber tweezers are electrically conductive.
Excellent 👍👌
Sound verygood
I'm 50 aswell. loved these . there were some odd brands got couple through swapping stuff with mates. wish I still had them.
Yes indeed many brands jumped on the digital bandwagon and some you can still find on eBay but usually not built so well as Casio and seiko.
nice job on this one Mike
Thank you.
@@MyRetroWatches 😄😄
Even old casios need some love
That last tune is handy if the organist calls in sick to your wedding.
nice job on this one Mike, I love these vintage digital ones....really enjoy the videos of Vintage Digital Watches too...thanks for sharing mate, how is your health?
Thanks. Yes Tibi makes some great videos. He has done some repairs for me way back too. A really nice guy who is on the vintage digital watch Facebook group.
Loved this. Couldn't watch the grime part being cleaned though. Brilliant video, lovely Casio. Thank you.
I don’t blame you, it was grim work but hey all in a days work for a watch restorer! I’ve actually seen much worse before…
Thanks for watching !
Would love to see your digitals!!! I am a collector of early lcd and led watches myself.
I have quite allot! Some interesting ones too. Plan to film that one soon maybe in stages like Seiko , Casio etc.
Will all be on my second channel as I’m trying to grow that one . My Watch Collection.
@@MyRetroWatches I have a 80's black one with solar panel strip,( i think its more for show) asked casio sth pacific and they cant find any record and so i still dont know what battery it takes.
i had this one too :) back in the days it was something to have hahaha
What a great watch! Reminded me of Mr Pickering who made geography so boring that 'Happy Birthday' would ring out whenever his back was turned. Happy days. Looking forward to seeing your digital watch collection on My Watch Reviews 👍
Haha brilliant. Annoying the teachers with anything was worth it
I had one bought in Iraq in Never had problems. I gave it to someone, and now I regret.. Hopefully, casio will re make them. Thanks 4 the Video
What a treasure!
Very retro indeed.👍
I’m glad it’s retro and not vintage as that would make me vintage and I feel young at 50!
Thanks for tuning in!
Thanks Mike. Trip down memory lane. I have a much much cheaper Convoy in my collection. 7 melody, not as fancy as the Casio, but its enough to scratch that melody watch itch. Dean
Thanks Dean. They are a novelty in todays world and for me at least it just reminds me of my youth .
I made a digital watch timegrapher using a puls sensor hooked up to my oscilloscope and it goes down to picoseconds so you can see exactly when the pulse comes. Very accurate.
I like you am 50 (for two more months anyway) had one the blue resin case it was my first watch and yes I got it for Christmas 1980, I had a pavilion response to those tunes
I had one of these back in 1982, mine was the version with the Black Case and Rubber Strap.
That took me back, they did drive the teachers crazy 🧐😂😂
I think half the boys in my 5th grade class had one of these in 1981/82, including myself. We used to drive the teachers (and our parents) nuts with these! IIRC, mine was a black case with gold trim. It's the only watch that I haven't found from my childhood. Wonderful memories!
Great job on the resto (I actually enjoyed seeing all the gunk being removed 🙂)
Brilliant. I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers these in the classroom!
Enjoyed that one Michael.
You have altered my thoughts about timepieces mate, thank you.
I only know a couple of the tunes, there was one in the middleish that had a definite Japanese ear to it.
I think the last one is played as men walk innocently towards promised happiness .......
We could have a Dna test done on that yukky gunk and find the original owner or his relatives.
Someone in the comments has names every single melody!
Yes this one was a bit crusty but I’ve actually seen much worse!
Hi- if you love casio watches and wish better backlight for display I suggest to use smd leds for example MSL-538SW-N2 is 2x1x0.8 mm may satisfy you better
Still got my old Casio from 80s with the blue illuminator light. Still going strong
What a cute battery pad connector ^_^
Great jop master
thanks
I think the light pusher you may have put the "set" pusher which I seem to remember on some Casio they were less pronounced than the function pushers so less likely to inadvertently set the watch by casual presses, it would explain the different shape and size to the other 3.
I'm 50 as well and... Oh man.... I remember these. Wow... Something I just remembered watching this.. I had a pac-man watch when I was a kid that you could play pac-man on. Can't believe I've just remembered that. I'd love to see that thing again.
PAC man and other game watches are highly collectible. Great to go back in time and reminisce
A trip to memory (or is it melody)lane for me as well. As I told on the Facebook group. My mom got irritated by me, playing the melodies a bit too ofen when I was a 10 years old kid, back in 1981. She took my watch away from me and said I would get it back later. When later came, she could not find the watch again. She insisted that she did put it in a drawer. But could not find it anymore. It was never "found" again. Is suspect (no matter what my mother says) that it must have ended up in the garbage bin. 😞
Mums always confiscated stuff and hid it in a drawer (a bin more like)
I had my black widow catapult taken from mum and I never forgave her at the time…
I remember getting my first Texas Instruments reverse polish notation calculator and thinking I am living in the future.
One in friend had one those digital watch from the late 70’s where press the button to light the watch in red digits….very collectible
Those Watches, like most things from the 80s, were really Tacky
Tenho um desse⌚ é uma verdadeira nostalgia
I had a silver watch with metal band in the early 80s that played melodies as well. One was "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)". Wish I remembered more details. Loved it. Any ideas?
i have one like it i love it
Brilliant video, have stripped and cleaned a solar LCD, all clean and working fine, just can't set time/date. Baffling as all is clean, buttons working fine. Any ideas please, keep up the digital watch video's, you do great detail and explain clearly.
Hard to say without seeing it. Must be contact related if the buttons are not working.
Have to tried to set out of the case! Usually you can use a screwdriver on the contact pad to replicate the button.
@@MyRetroWatches thanks will try it.
The dodgy bugs. lol Who knows. Maybe they're watch bugs? New species? Either way, great video. I have a handful of electric quartz digital watches haven't dug into them yet. Been working on my older gears watches for the last 8 months. Might change it up and dig into my electrics. Good refresher video. I have great knowledge on soldering micro spaces and if I come across a movement that has a tricky chip set, I can solder bad connections on tracers. Cheaper then buying or finding new.
Thanks for your comment Jay. My heart is in mechanical movements but I love all watches so will try to repair or learn about how they work.
Soldering is something I am dreadful on and on a micro scale even worse but I’ve still managed repairs so for you it will a breeze.
Glad you enjoyed the video , maybe watch my Sicura Electralite video as that has a really crude circuit repair
Casio really knows to turn digital watched into something else .... I had a casio pocket game, same period of Nintendo G&W ... the sound was INCREDIBLE in comparison. The effects..... CASIO knows how to do it.
My first digital watch played yellow rose of Texas, my mate got the Casio calculator watch, we thought they were magic
Was yours a sekonda? I think their first melody Watch played that
Great job Mike. I enjoy your videos! Out of curiosity, why couldn't you clean the case and crystal in the ultrasonic? Afraid the paint would come off?
Because under the crystal is the inlay which would get ruined I think. Would be very hard to dry out too.
The watch is 40 years old and I don’t want to kill it 😂
Hi Mike, great video as always!
I have a 1985 steel digital Casio with 100m WR (Marlin). I want to renew the gaskets to get it back its water resistance.
Do you just have many generic gaskets lying around? And just grease on the pushers is enough like in the vid?
That’s a difficult one and no one will guarantee water resistance on an old watch. You can easily change the caseback gasket but pusher gaskets are really hard to size correctly given they are so small. Equally the pusher have to be removed and not all of them have e clips like this one in the video. Some you need a special press tool to remove them from the case.
Then there is the crystal gasket which might be good but equally if an old watch of 40 years will have gone hard.
Hello, I loved the video and the restoration has been wonderful. My most sincere. Congratulations.
I have a question, do you know how to set the time in 24h format on this clock? Thanks greetings!
Great repair! I have been restoring the case of a white stainless steel Casio H104. Does anyone know how to blend in paint on speaker plate? Mine has rubbed off in some places and I was wondering if any way to sort that out.
Nice!
How do u make your screwdrivers demagnetise?
Love to see this! 👍
A demagnetiser tool. You basically push a button to activate the magnet and then draw the parts / screwdriver upwards aways from the magnet. Do it a few times. Just disrupts the electrons and removes the magnetism
I had one of these and used to continually press the mode button just to hear all the notes played, up and down. Shame I've not got it anymore.
What’s funny when I saw some videos on digital watches I rememberd I bought a Curtis Alarm Quartz watch back in the 80’s and when the battery died I just put the watch in my watch drawer. Last month I decided to open it up and replace the battery. Now the watch runs again that has Hour Month Min Date Sec Alarm and a light button. I did have to clean some blue battery leak powder before inserting the new battery.
I had one of these at school, but now it is in bits. (The module still works fine though.) Do you know if it is possible to replace the glass crystal on these watches. I managed to crack mine when trying to get the back back on after changing the battery!
In theory it can be changed if you can actually find a replacement
In 1990 , I had the same casio watch it's called Xmas melody. When I switched light button digital vanished. This means that the battery is weak.
When I was about 12 I remember having a watch that played quite a few a Beatles tunes. I can't remember what make it was.
That would be so good to own now!
I was the kid in the class who had all of these watches. I wish I knew where they all went.
probably swapped them for something in the playground. Commodore 64 game
@@MyRetroWatches 🤣
Hey, Mike, have you ever considered working on a vintage mechanical alarm watch?. I have a Bulova Sea King with the 11ATRCD movement, and it is scary!. Though it was working (barely), it was crying out for help because it was a grimy gunky mess inside. Well, I am now in the trenches. It is cleaned and I am in the process of reassembly. Wish me luck...I'll need it! 🥴🥴😊😊
Well...catastrophe!. I wondered why the balance wheel wasn't taking off. Everything looked good. Here I nosed around and somehow the bottom jewel had fallen out. What's the jewel called the balance rides in?. Half the incabloc shield was broken off and the jewel came out. Then, I looked under my microscope and the balance staff pivot is bent. How that happened...I do not know. I didn't bump it or do anything to it that I am aware of. What a downer!.
wish I'd kept mine!
この頃のカシオは神がかってたよ😸
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やはりカシオは神！
I am sat here polishing my "quality" whilst watching with interest as I have an ancient A904 Seiko I have long long not cleaned for fear of buggering it up beyond repair, finished my bronze Tandorio and now working cleaning my Aliexpress "Willard-o-like" then the usual weekly brasso wadding and dremel attack on my Soviet tank watches as very therapeutic polishing them... I do like my shiny :D
I’m leaving my bronze watches to tarnish