Sunday, 23 September 2012

Ologi Oval LCD watch - with Werewolf Alarm

Today's watch has caused more annoyance and sleep loss than the rest of my collection put together!

As I buy used watches from all different time zones, sometimes an alarm is left on accidently at a weird time. This is hard to find when you have a large number in one place, but I can normally find it by a process of elimination.

Except one time...
In the middle of the night about 5-6 years ago, I was woken by a watch alarm going off. I wasn't quick enough that first night to find it, but narrowed down where it was. The second night, again I wasn't quick enough, but checked all of the watches in that area, and none had alarms on. The night after was silent, so I forgot about it.

A while later, the same thing happened. A few nights of alarms and none with an alarm running, then silence.

The third time this happened, I was closer to the watch when it went off, and located that this watch was the culprit. What I saw was the display flashing with the words "full moon" and a picture of 3 wolves! And it can't be switched off!!!

The watch is by Ologi, which is a sub-brand of fashion and sports watch suppliers GSI that was started in March 2000. The Ologi line was released to offer affordable and innovative fashion watches. The name came from the ending of both technology and horology.

This model has a dot matrix LCD display with quite a high resolution, and normally shows 3 lines (time, date and month, day).

It has a lot of modes: alarm, stopwatch, timer, memo, anniversaries, world time, and decision making (and werewolf warning). The decision making mode is the most unusual as when you press enter (the front button), the display shows a hand rubbing a lamp, followed by an answer (such as "yes", "fat chance", "don't bother", "check it later", or "no clue").

On the back there is a number which may be the model number 59-010

One problem is the date, it only has the option to go between 2000 and 2010, so to have the right day shown, I've had to set it to 2007.

So if you are worried in the middle of the night about werewolves from the last decade, this is a watch for you!





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