Be carefull when buying your digital watches

[I+Z=IZ]

Is there recourse for cases like this? Eg. Back to Casio?

[ten10]

Casio has factories in Thailand, Malaysia and China making G-Shocks with parts coming from the same and Indonesia.

Japanese QC standards are very high but unfortunately their AQL (Acceptance Quality Level) didnt catch this little flaw I guess.

Even the shop didnt realise this and learnt something from my friend that day

[Iceheller]

Dude, how u know made in china? Even if made in china, Casio QC also failed. Cannot every lousy thing all blame made in china, the company that licensed them to produce product must account for the lapse. sg also started like china and manufacture product for SEA market in the 60-80s as labour cost here is cheap. We did a better QC job that all and manage to ride on that reputation.

[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!

[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.

[ten10]

Maybe a fake .

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

[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.

[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!

[TanWL]

Maybe a fake .

[Iceheller]

Watch made in where?

[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?

[gohaj]

Consider this as 'limited' edition

[dtctan]

Something new I learn

[LSL]

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

[destht]

Thanks for the advise.
Has learn something new.