Friday, September 18, 2015

Leader 02 Лидер Electronic Watch

From my collection is this old-school but rather recent electronic watch - LEADER 02 electronic wristwatch made by KAMERTON Factory, Pinsk, Republic of Belarus. 



This watch was made in 2008, and I bought it circa 2013. It works and still runs on the same button cell battery I bought it with. 


Unlike some other Leaders, such as Leader 10, which were clones of Electronika watches or later ChN watches, this Leader 02 has no corresponding Electronika or ChN watch and uses a Chinese module. 


But what it has instead is a pleasant luminescent back light.


Other functions include:

  • Current time and calendar
  • Alarm
  • Stop watch
It is certainly no Apple watch... but then it doesn't cost $500 (more like $5) and you don't have to charge it every day or fuss about it.




Under the caseback.


I desisted from disassembling it further.


The luminescent back light is very pleasant to the eye and is turquoise in color, the photos don't do it justice, it looks better in real life.



User's manual, click to enlarge, that is if you have any Russian.




Photos for my post on Russian watch forum









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