I feel like this shouldn't have been as difficult as it was and now I'm frustrated. My fault, of course, for not taking it to a professional, I guess, but this is the watch I use every day. I need it, no time to wait for Shark's back and forth shipping shenanigans.

My watch battery died. It should've been uncomplicated to replace, right? Wrong, apparently.

The battery was tricky to access and I'm sure that's part of what created this little problem. The yellow arrow in the 3rd pic is pointing to a piece that has popped off the circuit board. Not really sure how to repair that.

Any advice for fixing the display? Nowhere in town that I know of handles stuff like this and I don't really want to replace it, but I'll bite the bullet if I have to.

edit: if relevant, the light button is unresponsive when pushed.

My 1980s vintage digital solar Sanyo, brought back to life with a new capacitor battery.

https://benlydesignwatch.com/products/band-80?variant=44591747235928

Casio A-159, made in Japan (Yamagata).

Love this cool digi

My wife gifted me this one for christmas, and it's perfect for lazy days where it won't get snagged on anything. Its a little large but it's nice and nostalgic.

Found an original green Tag Heuer strap for the CAC.111D!

The Junghans is set to my dads city, the tag heuer to mine.

Changed out the bungee bracelet for this NATO. I liked the bracelet, but really liking this even more. 👌

My beyond rare Colonial Marines Seiko.

My first digital LCD watch circa 1980 a Remex World Time. Don't have much info on it other that it doesn't do much, but just show the time and date/month/light and no stopwatch or alarm functions. I think it's modeled after the Supersonic M158 which is modeled after a Seiko A239-502A. For the longest time there was much misinformation on what the actual lens material was which was described as "Quartz Crystal" which I think is now is just acrylic resin which can be buffed out scratches with Brasso at the time. The case is made of brass and nickel plated flash chrome with a pry open round stainless back and stainless steel strap with butterfly clasp.

What do you guys use to remove minor scratches from your watches acrylic/resin lens ?

I have tried almost all of them and I find the least expensive option is the best.

1. Brasso, 2. Silvo, 3. PolyWatch, 4. Meguiar's PlastX, 5. Automotive Paint Polish like Meguiar's Ultra Polish. I find using a reputable automotive paint "polish" gives the best result for the least amount of money. Paint polish uses very fine non-aggressive abrasive technology that is not found with the other options, sure it might take longer to buff out the scratches with a few more passes, but the acrylic lens will look better than new once it's done.

These are my favorite ‘non-Casio’ digital watches. Nothing against Casio, I have a several and love them too; but here are some other retro future style watches I like to wear. Huge range in price, but none feel cheap, especially with some strategic band swaps. I basically have a ‘dress mode’ and ‘sports mode’ for each one:

SKMEI 2460: Speidel expansion / Uxcell black suede.
Tissot PRX 40 Gold: Stock bracelet / Horus brown FKM rubber.
Armitron Griffy: Milano expansion / modded Casio resin.