Showing posts with label D410 module. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D410 module. Show all posts

Friday, 13 December 2013

Independent 1481010 Abacus G.S.D blue grey and silver

It's been a while since I've done a Citizen Independent 1481010, and so I'm blogging one today. You can find out much more about the 1481010 range from my 1481010 overview page.

This is one of the G.S.D models with the Graphic Sparkle Display, but the Abacus form. I blogged new of these a long time ago, and there I mentioned that in the abacus models with a D410 module, there were 4 colour variations. That the I blogged the cream model with a orange and silver buttons, and this time it is a blue green watch with light blue grey and silver buttons.

For the Abacus model, the display is made up of rows of LEDs of different colours made into 4 columns. Each column represents one of the four digits in the time, and are made up of 4 single digits, and a red LED which counts as 5. Pressing the bottom button shows the time followed by a flashing pattern of dots which changes each hour.

This watch was made at the end of 1998 and has a full model number of D410-S70134. This colour combination was the one that lasted the longest, officially being released in 1999 and stopping in 2001. The catalogue number was IT21-4131H and it originally cost ¥10,000.

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Quiz time - Citizen Independent 1481010 abacus 1 D410-S70151

As I've got through around 1% of my collection, and haven't had any unusual ways to tell the time, I thought it was time for a quiz:
So what time does the watch say?
The watch is a Citizen Independent 1481010 with a D410 module using LEDs to show the time. When the button is pressed, the watch first tells the time, followed by a flashing pattern which changes by the hour. When the battery begins to run low, the patters is replaced by a single flashing LED (4 flashes for low battery, 10 for very low).
The 1481010 range has 4 variations with his module, 3 colour variations in plastic, and one metal version. There is also another set which uses the same case, but with a more traditional number display.
As for telling the time, I'll leave that to a later update after someone has guessed what the time is!

[UPDATE] The time was correctly worked out through facebook! The watch in the bottom picture is showing the time 13:08. The digits are shown in columns, two with green LEDs for the hours and two with orange LEDs for the minutes. A red LED counts as a 5 at the top of any column. So the time shown is
1 3 : 0 (5+3) = 13:08

For more info on the 1481010 line, see http://whichwatchtoday.blogspot.com/p/citizen-independent-1481010-overview.html