Telva TI-136 TD2 Chronograph

When buying groups of watches, you need to try to recognise things by the photo. Doing this, you realise that there are a lot of watches which look similar at a glance.

Today's watch is another Telva (or テルバ) and has a passing resemblance to one of the G-Shock designs, but actually brings something a little special looking to the design.

The Telva line appear to be a low price range of watches with many different fashion watch designs. You seem to get a lot for your money though, as I've seen this model sell for around ¥1000 new, and it has a good build quality.

The watch is a model TI-136 and seems to have the name TD2 Chronograph, and it is a quartz LCD watch. It has a 6 digit LCD display with digits in different colours - blue for hours, green for minutes, and red for seconds. Above the time are three circular windows with segments in red LCD which show am/pm (left), alarm status (middle), and day of the week (right). The watch has 3 options, time, alarm, and stopwatch. The mode button switches between alarm and stopwatch (and activates settings mode), and the bottom right button shows the alarm setting.

The watch has a clear plastic case with shiny silver trim, and a completely clear strap. This gives the watch a really nice look, making it seem very shiny and luxurious when it catches the light.

The back has the Telva Digital logo, and also says this is a Crepha X design. Crepha are the manufacturer and started in 1989 with the mottos "Smile is extreme energy" and "Share the happiness".

Crepha Telva Chrono R TI-127

The watch today is one that was a brand I'd not heard of before, but one I've kept coming across.

Originally, I'd thought that the brand was called Telva as that was prominent on the watches, but it turns out the maker is called Crepha. The Crepha company is from Tokyo, Japan, and was founded in 1989 with the mottos "Smile is extreme energy, and "Share the Happiness". They make a range of clocks and watches, including watches for Sanrio and Walt Disney. Telva is one of the lines that they produce, and is their line for stylish, traditional, sports, and digital. The company name is shown on the watch as Crepha X Design.

This watch is the TI-127 model, and has the name Chrono R on the strap. It is a chronograph watch with an alarm function. There is also an el-backlight triggered by the button on the front, and the text on the face says it has "Light in the Night" (-the text also says the watch has "Power of Telva").

The watch has an LCD display with a holographic /reflective back style making it quite easy to read in low light (even without the backlight). It has a 6 digit time display with smaller seconds, and there is a small circular section above the seconds which shows indicators for the alarm and chime.

I don't know when this model was released, but it isn't available anymore.