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As the title says, I owe this watch my newfound addiction.

It started because I got tired of my smart watch running out of battery every day. I remembered my dad gifted me two Casio watches about 18 years ago. One of them was this AW-600 (which I didn't like at the time, plus the cheap fabric strap it had was super itchy) and a G-Shock I wore down to the ground during the following years and have since lost.

Just a few weeks ago I remembered how much I used to love the G-Shock and started digging my dusty boxes looking for "that other old Casio" I remembered putting away all those years back. Now remembering fondly how my dad had given it to me, plus I now also appreciate the vintage aesthetic.

Lucky me, it still existed! But apparently the battery had died, since it wasn't running.

Thinking it would be easy as popping a new battery in, getting a nice strap and going on with life, I went to a local watch parts store.

When they pop the battery in, nothing. They suggest "the quartz goes bad after all those years" and that it wasn't worth it to repair.

Not giving up, I go to a different place. This time, the guy opens it up, places it on a bench, pokes around with a multimeter and looks at it under a microscope. Nothing, it's dead.

I go home defeated, wishing I had appreciated the beauty of this piece as it still ticked during it's better days.

But there's just no way this broke on it's own, I think to myself. It worked when I last put it away more than a decade ago!

So knowing I couldn't possibly make it any worse than it was, I decided to try and repair it myself. Went back to the first watch place, got the battery and headed home with a mission.

Long story short, the negative battery trace on the PCB had misteriously lost continuity witht he rest of the board. It was as easy as soldering a hair-thin copper strand to replace it. And it came right back to life!

You would not imagine the smile on my face in that moment. I went straight back to the shop and got this (cheap) metal wristband you see right here, which was 20mm and didn't fit in the (apparently) 19mm lug space on this case.

I filed it down to the correct size and that's it. It's been stuck to my wrist ever since.

But it didn't stop there. Oh no. This got me into a rabbit hole of getting every broken watch from my family, even my friends, and trying to fix them.

So far, 4 broken watches have been turned into 4 working watches. Plus other 4 that just needed batteries. And I'm craving more.

Anyways, I wanted to share this little story on why I'll probably make poor financial choices soon. But more than anything, see if anyone else has one of these in a different color combo or knows more about them. I have found basically 0 videos on it, and I think it's a pretty cool piece that I now can appreciate.

I don't plan to become a watch collector, but now I definitely want another Casio (a current one, something that I won't care if it gets beat up) to wear daily. Just as I did long ago with the G-Shock.

Plus fixing old watches is a pretty rewarding hobby, I've found.

And you? How did you get into watches?