Annex dot matrix: Y771-5150

[simone]

Hi to all...here to show you my latest ebay acquisition: Annex dot matrix display...
First of all the band isn't original,i replaced it with a seiko band changing the clasp..The Annex brand seems to be unknow,just only one pics on the web (dated at 1982).
As you can see there are two rows (both dot matrix ): the upper one is animated with a funny running man (chrono section) with a speaker and musical note (in alarm section).
For it's age this Annex was very futuristic ,here the features: two rows in dot matrix (one animated),alarm and melody alarm,chrono,date and day,light and memo section !!

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[simone]

Here the module: a true made in Japan by Shiojiri ltd

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[Adam]

Simone

Great find, I dont recognize the brand.
It looks like Pulsars excellent Y771 module. Its a cracking module especially when the man runs across the screen. its a melody too!



Adam

[simone]

oh my god,it's the same!!incredible!
the funny running man....ah ah ah ah

[peachykeen]

oh my god,it's the same!!incredible!

Shiojiri Ltd. was a subsidiary of the Seiko-Epson group until they got fully acquired by Seiko and their name was dropped in favor of a unified Seiko-Epson corporate identity. It was one of the places where digital modules were produced, in parallel with the Morioka and Hattori plants. Even if the modules were technically the same, each one was branded according to the production facility with either "Shiojiri", "Hattori" or "Morioka". Despite of the different names, they're interchangeable of course, and one can be used as spare parts for the other.
At a later time when Seiko acquired Orient and JEPIC, some production facilities were consolidated, but there are still a number of them to be found at the old company addresses, most interesting in this context are:

- The Orient facilities at 4-4, 2-Chome, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo -- The midrange and high-end analogue Orient Quartz movements are assembled here
- Morioka Seiko Instruments at 61-1, Itabashi, Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate-gun, Iwate -- This is the place where the Grand-Seiko watch movements are made
- Shiojiri production facility at 390 Shiojiri-cho, Shiojiri, Nagano 399-0796 -- The Seiko Spring Drive movements are coming from here

[simone]

Very usefull info...thanks !

[Kasper]

great watch Simone.

@peachykeen
i just love this kind of info...thanks

[Thorsten74]

I was just changing the battery of my >30 years old ANNEX watch and wondering if others survived so long too. So i was finding this page. Thank you for the Info here!

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