Casio Friendly Memo Data Bank DBJ-24

There are many cute designs of watch out there, but none match the combination of cute, high tech and functional as today's model.

The watch is the Friendly Memo watch by Casio. It is part of their Data Bank range and has a model number of DBJ-24. The cute part is the most noticeable when you look at the display - one third of the LCD panel is devoted to an animated picture of a cat's face. The cat displays various emotions from happy to sad, it yawns, and even sleeps during the night. Holding the forward button also makes the cat pull funny faces (the reverse button makes it show the date). It uses a dot matrix array for the cat, but it's not a full grid, only covering where the cat will be.

To the right of the cat is a grid with hearts, people, and pencils which fills with the seconds during time mode, and seems to have something to do with the data bank too.

The time is displayed across the bottom of the LCD panel with a standard 6 digit display.

The data bank is quite special in this watch too. As normal, you can add a name, phone number and birthday, but then you also get to choose a character. The character changes the cat picture to a range of different cats and dogs where you can pick the type, and separately select a face :)

Apart from the data bank, the 1537 module gives this watch alarm and stopwatch functions, and another unusual feature called 'fit'. In this function, you select two people from your data bank and the watch works out their compatability, giving a number of hearts and a percentage score!

I'm not exactly sure when it was released, but I think it is from the 80s. There doesn't seem to be much info online about this watch except a couple that have been for sale - that did show that there was a couple of colour variations.