3D TV is Gone

Per this BBC website article, 3D TV is no more - all major manufacturers have now stopped making 3D television sets.

This week we learned that both LG and Sony have now stopped making 3D-enabled televisions. The firms follow Samsung - the world’s biggest TV maker - who confirmed the move last year. It means there are currently no major manufacturers making 3DTVs.

Luckily my general lack of funds kept me from buying one so I happily missed this particular technological dead-end.

ChN-01 Electronic Wristwatch

A ChN-01 -04 series of electronic watches, and a ChN-01 in more detail.

The ChN-0x series was the last and most advanced series of old-school electronic watches made first in the USSR and then in the Republic of Belarus.

Let's watch the video (in Russian).

As the video in Russian here is a re-cap.

First, my entire ChN-01 - 04 collection, including ChN-01 x 2, ChN-02, ChN-03 and ChN-04.

Then the two ChN-01 more specifically.

This watch model has many functions:

• time, date, automatic calendar up to 2069 (or even 2099)
• second time
• 24/12 mode
• automatic summer/winter time correction function which can be turned off
• Russian/English
• alarm
• stopwatch
• 3 timers
• automatic adjustment correction
• alarm melody x 5

Some of the functions are shown specifically the alarm melodies.


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Kinetic Diect Drive function

Spring Drive function

Molnija 3602 Movement Pictures

Here is a gallery of Molnija 3602 movement pictures from my collection.

The movement is in one of my Molnija (read: MOL-nee-yah) pocket watches, I forget which.

This is what I call a proper watch movement! It's 36 mm in diameter.

Truth to tell, this is the cal. 3602 movement in its 2000s version -- yellow plates (brass?), no central stone, other simplifications, rough machining and no decoration while early Molnija movements were beautifully decorated.  

As such it is much despised by watch collectors here in Russia who don't have much respect for the Molnija movements of this particular late vintage believing them somehow to be inferior to Molnija movements of almost every other period but, whether true or not, I don't share their snobbery.

The movement has yellow (brass?) plates -- such movements were made in the 2000s, but with markings. There's some number, it is some kind of movement identification number but not a serial number, RU for Russia, the caliber designation - 3602 and a Molnija watch factory logo next to it. 

Nice gold hues.
 

-23C 2008 Ford Focus Cold Start

Very cold currently in Moscow -20C to -30 C.

And apparently it's cold in the whole of Europe too.

Anyway, here are my experiences.

Electronika 77(A) х 3

Three Electronika 77A watches.

Two of them are Electronika 77A (with the "A") and are more recent, one chrome plated, the other yellow to resemble "gold-plating".

And the third one is an Electronika 77 (without the "A") and is older and rarer and was already mentioned in this entry on the blog.

 

Batteries are now replaced in all three, you can see the process in the latter half of the video.

Since the video is in Russian, here is a recap in English.

The three watches are Electronika 77s being clones of the 1970-80s Hong Kong Kessel/Montana watches, the latter still existing today in a cheap China version.

They show time, date, day of the week, have an alarm and a timer and also play seven tone melodies, I think, some American classics from the late 19th century (Yankee Doodle is there apparently).

Then I show how I replaced the batteries and set the time.