This watch has a nice looking PCB but is housed inside a nasty looking body. The RGB backlight doesn't have enough light spreading to make the LCD readable.
See: Postbag #72 for the unwrapping - https://youtu.be/B81_obntWwQ

By Julian

Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado

12 thoughts on “Teardown: crappy inverse lcd rgb led back light watch”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nigel Shephard says:

    You could always send it to photonicinduction and let him blow it up for you🤣

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Grant Aitken says:

    It`s hideous

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jerry Ericsson says:

    JETSON'S!! That is George Jetson's watch!! I know I used to watch that cartoon as if it were the weekly episode of Johnny Carson!! I know that is his watch for sure! I have looked at that watch before, back when I was on a watch binge but never had the nerve to waste any money on it. Now perhaps as the swansong of my buying binges (Since my income was cut in half by the government!) I may well order one, just so I have George Jetson's watch!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars newhuskytwenty says:

    If I had one I would pay to get rid of that "thing", not selling it.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lance Emil says:

    Oh, now I just gotta have this awesome bit of nerdy schlock – Aliexpress here I come…

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Tech Mate says:

    these little watches sell like crazy in my country. they are made to look cook until function wise they are trash.
    their electronic design are good and all the same its just their outer shell that is changed. I had a fake Casio G-Shock made like this.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Barry Britcher says:

    in my day messing with calculators you just flipped the polariser not rotate it

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Matheus Moreira says:

    Burn it!
    Throw it down a hill!
    Crush it under a truck's tire!
    Smash it with a hammer!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dosbomber says:

    Only speculating because I don't own the watch, but that smaller time (identical in this case) is usually set to another time zone on other watches, so you can keep track of, say, home time while you're traveling.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars volvo09 says:

    that watch is so horrible. it's something I would have found or been given as a kid (who only got scrappy stuff) and still been disappointed by it. only difference is back then the cheap watches had a little incandescent lamp in them that did a horrible job dispersing light…. about on par with that led but 1/10 the brightness. made for the trash!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Logan says:

    I'm so glad you tore this apart! I love your neopixel videos!!!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Graham Langley says:

    The inductor is part of the drive cct for the piezo – a big clue is it's connected to the piezo connection spring.

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