I don’t know if I said this before, but I am a proud owner of this very watch:
I mean, not this exact watch, but this watch.
Originally, I would wear it on rare occasions. The issue with the watch was that occasionally it likes to “reset itself”, and I never figured out why it did this. I would get angry when it did it though, especially in the middle of a calculation.
Couple of days ago, I finally had an issue where it would not work at all. Forums have suggested that this could be a battery issue, so I decided to open up my calculator watch. Tested the battery, works just fine. But not the watch. Now, I was getting very annoyed.
So then I decided to completely disassemble the watch down to the PCB. And I finally found the flippin’ issue.
As it turns out, the “heartbeat” of the watch (I forget what it was called, I believe they called a clock crystal or something) was not completely soldered in during manufacturing. One of its legs completely lifted up, breaking the circuit. (When you look at the soldering blob, you can notice where the leg was resting on it. It was not completely in the blob.) Since there was no warranty on my watch anyways, I decide to do my own work on it.
And now, here I am, with a watch I can finally wear every day confidently knowing that it won’t “reset itself” because I fixed it.
This watch is great for increasing your nerd factor almost everywhere! 