The background: Before I retired in 2002, I always wore nice wrist watches to work. When we began construction on our present home in 1987, I knew I would be doing some things around the work site that might get a nice watch banged up. So I purchased a Casio watch at Service Merchandise Co. It probably cost less than $15 back then - I don’t recall what I paid. Plastic case – plastic band; an eventual throwaway.
When we finally moved into the home in 1988 and I got my shop set up, with tools hanging on wall mounted pegboards, I one day took off this watch, and hung it on a peg. I have never worn it since. With no wall clock in the garage it was the timepiece I would occasionally refer to while out in the garage.
Again – it was hung up, sometime in mid to late 1988.
Present day: Twenty five years later. The photo speaks for itself.
Every few years I would see it hanging there and sometimes re-set it to correspond to daylight saving time. But many years - it never got touched.
The battery is the original!
Has anyone ever heard of a battery lasting twenty-five friggin’ years???