1980s CASIO DIGITAL MELODY ALARM - Watch Restoration

A trip down nostalgia lane with this 1980s Casio Melody Digital Watch.

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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[MyRetroWatches]

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[fredcrook]

It's not just a digital watch... it's a smile generator.

[cyrax]

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.

[andreasekart]

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.

[LandyVlad_Rides]

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.

[kenossowicz]

What a memory. 1981 6th grade. A school friend had one and I thought it was the coolest thing. I bugged my parents enough that I finally got one for my birthday! My black model got a lot of attention. Wish I still had it. Thanks for the video!

[DanielLopez-memh]

Love this vintage casio melody watch brings memories as a kid those watches were all the rage back then great vid

[IlluminatingWatches]

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

[IanGough-tl]

Great video. I have one I bought new as a teenager with my first pay packet. You just prompted me to restore it (half done). 👍

[ChuckStorey]

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.

[johnbergstrom]

I had one of these - the black version. They were cool. Made a lot of my classmates laugh.

[Antiqueexcavator]

I just picked one up. I’m having trouble getting the back case off. Glad I found this video! Thanks!!

[guitarsarelikestupid]

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.

[TheJojanco]

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!

[EarlySwerver]

I must have had one of these. Those rising two notes as you cycle through the features is burned into my mind.

[alancampbell]

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.... 😂

[lancehollingworth]

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 :)

[rbmwiv]

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.

[stayingsane]

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).

[echterocher]

Never Seen that Casio before. Great! Thanks a lot for sharing.