Light of time: to the roots

    The article will focus on trying to bring a copy of a Nixon Newton watch to the original.

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    (25 photos + GIF)

    It so happened that I got a watch in my hands, which is a copy of Newton's Nixon watch.
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    They differed from the original ones by the lack of backlight and the color of what should have been a button.
    In the original version it is white, and in the copy it is black, probably so as not to catch the eye.
    Yes, also somewhere I lost a pip for setup. Actually, this made me get into the watch and add functionality.
    You can also mention the casting quality of the strap - the holes are not cut.
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    We pick up the pipka, a hole appears under our gaze, a hole is also present in the pipka itself. Toli authors somewhere hijacked the original mold, or maybe they also produce copies with some functionality.
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    We begin to disassemble. The cover is fastened with four screws.
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    Under it, we see the watch mechanism, a plastic cap, four screws holding the case in the strap and the casting flaws of the strap.
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    Unscrew the screws again. We remove all unnecessary.
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    This is how the dial itself looks.
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    There is only one building left to make some changes.
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    We remove the "glass". On it, by the way, there is a protective film. The “glass” is simply glued around the edge.
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    It's time to choose the LEDs for the backlight. I took not the smallest. The thickness of the body was enough.
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    A micro button was taken to the LEDs.
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    Manufacturers have done the hole, so we will have less work left.
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    Let's drop the LEDs in future places
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    The question arose of how to connect all this. Various conductors have been tested. In the photo, a wire from the headphones. The first time I worked with such small LEDs.
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    It's time to make the seats. For these purposes a file was used.
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    In the end, the wires were taken from the IDE loop.
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    We look how it all looks in place.
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    Put the clockwork in place, check. The light is not as soft as the original.
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    We look at how you can place the battery. Perhaps in the original it is somehow located in a plastic plug, but the battery did not fit into this plug, I had to fiddle. Traces of vandalism did not appear on the photograph.
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    Putting it all together. Glows, works. But there is one “but.” It all works now without a button.
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    We are preparing the operating room and the patient for implantation of a button.
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    The button was just set on hot melt adhesive. Connected to a pipette with a nail trimmer of a suitable diameter. Wild, but it works.
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    You can continue to move the copy closer to the original.
    At least replace the pipette with a white one. You can also make the backlight as in the original. There is no need to hold a button. Pressed - the backlight turned on for a few seconds and turned off. If there is a simple solution to this issue - in the comments.

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