My Summer Choice: Electronika 53V

The summer of 2016 has been very hot and humid in Moscow so far.

The temperature has been hovering around plus 30 degrees Celsius for much of the summer, only today it is a bit cooler but still a respectable +25 C.  

This kind of weather wreaks havoc on leather straps as you are permanently sticky so my watch choice under the circumstances is my Electronika 53V old school digital watch already catalogued on this blog.

The plastic strap on this model is not the easiest thing to use but I think I can just cope with it.

And the photo video below shows how I once performed a battery replacement job on it.

In fact it is still running on the same battery.

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Electronika 53V x 2

An Electronika 53V old-school electronic watch from my collection.

The letter "V" means it's water resistant.  

In fact, I already mentioned it once on this blog in this post: Summer mode.

And now a more detailed entry with photos... photos may be a bit dark but they are all I've got.

I have two of them. 

One of them has a characteristic plastic strap attached -- I am not sure it is a good idea to dis-attach it ever again (for instance, to facilitate battery replacement).  

The other one is separate from the strap yet. 

It is in a little clear plastic bag, plus a manual and the strap which you attach yourself..

The case shows names of the world oceans in Russian. 

It also says "water impervious" but the Electronika 53V is by no means a diver's watch, more like 30 atm protection, that is, against splashes, maybe, some running water.

The reverse side. 

No openings on the back side.

You do everything through the "face", such as battery replacement which I am going to show in photos now.

My Electronika 53V x 2 Old-School Digital Watch

Electronika 53V / Электроника 53В

Summer mode

To start with, here's a couple pictures of my Electronika 53V watch.

It was a very hot June in Moscow this year and I was in summer mode with this cheery digital watch, tropicalized as it were, i.e. water resistant. July not so much now but August again promises to be a hot one.

I'll write this watch up in detail later.