Be carefull when buying your digital watches

[ten10]

Most of the time, I see watch buyers taking out an eye-loupe to examine their potential purchase. And these are for the analog kind. Things they do not want to see are scratches on the crystal, case, bracelet, etc. They see until song-song...and then decide if their purchase is good!

Little did I know that, in the digital world, the watches need to be inspected too. Not so much for scratches but for missing or dead pixels. I accompanied a friend to a shop across my house to purchase a digital watch for himself. In the shop, he whipped out an eye-loupe and started to examine his selected digital watch. Its just a $70 casio and I told him, all should be fine...nothing to worry about!

But I was wrong. He detected a dead pixel on one of the digits.

Below photo shows the '5' (month) missing some pixels. Compare this with the larger '5' and you'll know what I mean.



So, be carefull when you buy your next digital watch folks!

[jieming]

Most of the time, I see watch buyers taking out an eye-loupe to examine their potential purchase. And these are for the analog kind. Things they do not want to see are scratches on the crystal, case, bracelet, etc. They see until song-song...and then decide if their purchase is good!

Little did I know that, in the digital world, the watches need to be inspected too. Not so much for scratches but for missing or dead pixels. I accompanied a friend to a shop across my house to purchase a digital watch for himself. In the shop, he whipped out an eye-loupe and started to examine his selected digital watch. Its just a $70 casio and I told him, all should be fine...nothing to worry about!

But I was wrong. He detected a dead pixel on one of the digits.

Below photo shows the '5' (month) missing some pixels. Compare this with the larger '5' and you'll know what I mean.



So, be carefull when you buy your next digital watch folks!

Your friend is lucky that the current month is may. If the month is jan or July, he may not spotted the defects till the turn next month.

[dammonekind]

Thanks for the heads up......cool, something new to learn.......

[destht]

Thanks for the advise.
Has learn something new.

[LSL]

Thanks for sharing .......useful information ..........!

[dtctan]

Something new I learn

[gohaj]

Consider this as 'limited' edition

[triton]

thanks for sharing.



using the picture above, i have highlighted 2 places. the 'T' seems to be missing a pixel? based on the letter U base line.

the sub dial missing a pixel also?

how many pixels must be present for the shop to change? is it like TV with X number of pixels then can be change?

[Iceheller]

Watch made in where?

[TanWL]

Maybe a fake .

[louie]

Watch made in where?

Made in china

seriously bro ten10, i wouldnt have noticed it if i was making that purchase...

way to go towkay triton!!


thanks for sharing bro ten10!

[ten10]

thanks for sharing.



using the picture above, i have highlighted 2 places. the 'T' seems to be missing a pixel? based on the letter U base line.

the sub dial missing a pixel also?

how many pixels must be present for the shop to change? is it like TV with X number of pixels then can be change?

I dont have the watch with me so cant comment about the TU (day) but the white specs are dust particles.
Good question you raised there... sorry I dont have the answer to that.

[ten10]

Maybe a fake .

Its a legit shop with branches all over S'pore so I doubt it'll be a fake.

[Iceheller]

Mr ten10, read that you are master craftsman, can PM me your shop contact, may dropby to seek for advice sometime down the road. Cheers.

[tsetse]

Most of the time, I see watch buyers taking out an eye-loupe to examine their potential purchase. And these are for the analog kind. Things they do not want to see are scratches on the crystal, case, bracelet, etc. They see until song-song...and then decide if their purchase is good!

Little did I know that, in the digital world, the watches need to be inspected too. Not so much for scratches but for missing or dead pixels. I accompanied a friend to a shop across my house to purchase a digital watch for himself. In the shop, he whipped out an eye-loupe and started to examine his selected digital watch. Its just a $70 casio and I told him, all should be fine...nothing to worry about!

But I was wrong. He detected a dead pixel on one of the digits.

Below photo shows the '5' (month) missing some pixels. Compare this with the larger '5' and you'll know what I mean.



So, be carefull when you buy your next digital watch folks!

Thanks for sharing Ten10! I didnt know that man. Next time I must be careful!