From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:49 -0000 (UTC), Chris    
   wrote:   
      
   >John  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:10:11 +0000, Andy Burns    
   >> wrote:   
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   >>> Daniel70 wrote:   
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   >>>> Chris wrote:   
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   >>>>> What house in any decent area doesn't have jewellery?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Mine .... but then, I don't have a Misses, either! ;-P   
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   >>> A nice watch?   
   >>   
   >>  Not in my house.   
   >>   
   >>  The wife had a watch that she liked. I was a "Man's" watch, it was   
   >> inexpensive and it was bigger than her hand. It also has a resale   
   >> value of about 30p.   
   >>   
   >>  I have a dead Casio watch that could have antique value. It's closing   
   >> in on being fifty years old or so. I also have, somewhere one of their   
   >> original portable calculators. Same vintage. Neither is worth lifting.   
   >>  Unless someone out there is a collector?   
   >   
   >If the casio watch is functional, they are VERY popular at the moment   
   >amongst the younger generation. You could get £30 for it.   
      
    If my recollection is valid, and I admit to it being possibly not as   
   I have bought many, many things since, the sum you mentioned would be   
   six times the *numerical* sum that I paid for it.   
      
    Considering inflation and the resulting devaluation of the UKland   
   pound, it's possibly the same *value* as what I originally paid for   
   it, meaning I could buy the same chip-supper, hot tea and deep-fried   
   Mars bar for the money, or whatever.   
      
    That would mean that should I sell it today I would make a profit. I   
   would have had the use and ownership of the device for more than a   
   Generation and I would get my money back.   
      
    That's an interesting way of owning stuff. :)   
      
    I have absolutely no reason to consider the machine to be   
   *non*-functional, it was fine until the power-pack died after about   
   twenty-some years of me wearing the thing. Still, things do   
   mysteriously decay. It's the way of the cosmos.   
      
    But I'm not interested in selling it. Ebay is far too much like hard   
   work and "The Antiques Roadshow" wouldn't consider it old enough.   
   Fifty years is their definition, I think and that's way back in 1976.   
   I doubt *any* Casio watch is that old.   
      
    Okay, I'm wrong, 1970.   
      
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch#Digital a very interesting page,   
   with loads of good stuff and a list of Collectors should any Reader   
   have a device older than mine.   
      
    On that note, mine is possibly 1980-ish. Maybe. And, contrary to what   
   I've mentioned up-thread, it is almost certainly LCD, not L*E*D. I am   
   fairly sure that the numbers were black not red.   
      
    It's still not worth stuffing into a bank vault's private box nor the   
   effort of a thief to explore my house to try to find it so I'm   
   probably not going to invest in high-end, robotic cameras and other   
   James Bond gadgetry.   
      
    Although ........ the idea is mildly appealing as a fun project. I'd   
   need to investigate stuff and that's always fun. :)   
      
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