Sunday 1 September 2013

Sanyo RaWatch R10P AM Radio Watch

Another watch I've unfortunately been unable to fix today.

The watch is by the Japanese electronics company Sanyo (which is now a subsidiary of Panasonic).

It came out in the mid 80s and is a watch and AM radio called the RaWatch. Sanyo produced quite a few different radio watches in the 80s (both AM and FM radio options). This model has the designation RW-R10P (-the RW is only mentioned on the box which I found in a photo).

The watch has a mono headphone socket on the bottom left, and tuner dial on the bottom right. The top right has another dial called ATT. which I think means attenuation.

The watch part has a basic LCD display, with mode and setting buttons, and will display time, date, (and I'd guess seconds). Across the top of the LCD is a marker for the day too.

There isn't much info on the back of the watch, as it just has the Sanyo logo and model number. Internet searching has shown me that the watch originally cost 7,500 yen, and it included the ear piece in the box.

3 comments:

  1. hi - just managed to find my sanyo RW-R10P but have 2 problems - not sure what battery is needed and appear to have lost the small screw on battery cover from the back

    any idea what battery i need and where i could get a replacement battery cover?

    many thanks

    ReplyDelete
  2. you probably need this battery:

    http://www.coolblue.net/blog/watches/fixing-watches/vintage-sanyo-cr-736a-battery-replacement-hack-r100p-radio-watch/

    ReplyDelete