The only way is to get yourself a watch with the same LCD, but working. This could be inside a totally different (and cheap) watch.moonraker wrote:I have a thing for early LCDs and have got my hands on this Speidel for next to nothing (some of you probably saw it but rightly wrote it off due to the obvious issue as follows!).
It needs a new LCD panel. Not any easy thing to get hold of i am sure but i want to persevere because i think it is such a great looking watch and put together in such an unusual way (nice lot of exposed wire bonds as well, always good to see!)
Anyway any know where I can get one?
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It appears to be a 4-digit LCD. Does it have only 12 connections? Then it must be a multiplexed one.
This reminds me of a very nice Fairchild LCD I once purchased for over 100$, absolutely mint. After a few months 2 segments disappeared intermittently (wire bonds!) and I messed the module up with a repair attempt (there was a protective cover over chip+bonds on BOTH sides of the PCB, and I removed the wrong one, tearing off ALL wires...).
Well, the story has a happy end: finally, after 6 months an ebay seller offered a totally beaten-up Fairchild watch in an absoltely ugly case, but with obviously the same module - and no shipment outside US (I asked). However, he got no bids (starting at 1$) so he took my offer of 10$ including shipment to Germany
Since then, I HATE open wire bonds. Nice to look at, but extremely delicate to handle. And sometimes they become loose just like that.