"Fox's Mercantile" wrote in message
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On 3/17/18 4:01 AM, N_Cook wrote:
Survived a week, with no 2005 reset , no loss of LCD segment or anything
other than the manageable loss of button-A. The only change was cleaning
battery contacts and of course electronic repairman's conundrum - close
handling of the pcb, upsetting a bad solder-joint etc interpreted as
whatever else done at the time,interpreted as a repair..



So, how much did this piece of crap cost new?
And how many hours did you waste "fixing" it?

The one i bought was £60 - £80 by the time I opted for the SS bracelet.

Last I saw advertised was somewhere around £140.

One of the discount stores did a very basic radio controlled watch for £15.
The waveceptor let go of its bracelet mount after at least a decade use,
I've gone through a couple of dumpster diver's watches before unpacking the
cheapie.

There's a growing collection of watches in a drawer - sometimes
circumstances align to make one of them a simple repair.