Birks LED any body have info??

[proraga]

HI I just picked up a vintage Birks LED watch 10k rolled gold, in great working condition, can anyone tell me anything about this piece its history and or its value?

I collect watches, however this is my first LED,

Thank you

[Led-Time]

Welcome to the forum proraga..

Did you try the search there may be something there. If not I'am sure someone will be along to help you out soon.

Your first LED watch so how do you like it...

[proraga]

Like it? love it its a nice piece of nostagia, I am old enough to remember when this time of watch came on the market, my dad got one, long gone now, but still really cool time piece , an instant favorite in my collection

[LEDluvr]

proraga, I have a Birks LED too. I don't know much about them but I've heard the modules are supposed to be very reliable. I've never had a problem with mine. Though I wish the display was a bit brighter I've been very happy with it.



BTW - the display is off in this pic. It's not that dim!

[LEDluvr]

Hmmm... I've seem to have done something wrong. The picture didn't come up but the link did. Sorry 'bout that....

[site admin. took care of it(sort of )..always grab the entire link for the first "thumbnail for forum" choice. Stuff happens. ]

[proraga]

Yep thats the same as mine except mines gold and has birks etched into hte display, I paid $70.00 cdn about 65 US for mine i assune tahts a good deal!

[retroleds]

Oh heck, I'll join in. The Birks watches are Rotary brand watches, logo-ed for Birks[no, seriously ]. The modules are really nice, IMO...I have a few extra of their modules and recently sold one to "digibloke"(if I remember correctly). The one's with flick-wrist feature can have time, then date and then continuous seconds all activiated by sequential flicks of the wrist. Only drawback - no way to shut off "flick" feature.

Mine were super bright...maybe yours has a problem with the light sensor?

[proraga]

Hi I will have to check, when i get it back from birks, re wrist flick feature ( next week) I droped it off to have it cleaned battery replaced etc - cool note Birks replaces batterys and cleans all there watches for free for life.

As Far as brightness it didnt seam too bad, but have nothing to compare it to

[LEDluvr]

Ed, you mentioned my Birks may have a problem with the light sensor.
I had no idea these modules had a light sensor (like a Pulsar)? Cool!
My Birks is currently hibernating (sans batteries) but when I get it back
in the rotation I'll report if it's still a dim-wit.

Unfortunately mine does not have the flick of the wrist feature, I didn't know that some models had that option.

proraga - I think you paid a great price for yours. I paid a little over $100 for mine. And free batteries/cleaning for life? Birks sounds like a pretty cool place to me.

And thanks Ed for fixing my pic/link in the previous post.

[proraga]

ell I have my watch Back it does not have the wrist flick feature, but other than that its in fantastic working condition, as per there promise Birks replaced battery and cleaned it for free and willdo so for the life of the watch how cool is that.