This watch runs on beer
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- Can you really power this 1987 Laneve Digital Watch using Beer or Water? Let's put it to the test and discover how it might work. Check out PCBWay.com - Great PCBs from $5! 🚀 And discover Retro Recipes PowerUp! at / perifractic & / @retrorecipes or click ❤️🔥 Thanks under the vid 🙌 Your support's the secret ingredient that keeps ЯR cooking sizzling content 🔥
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0:00 Intro & context
0:30 Water Watch Reveal
1:07 Sourcing Beer
1:22 Unboxing
3:44 The mystery of who made it
4:43 Testing Testing
6:04 Setup
6:46 How it turns water into time
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Is your name Lee? Asking as that was a time-lee(sic) pun. 😁
I could watch her doing the dishes, or anything for that matter. lol But this was pretty cool.
@@jaysoncowan5763 I do all the dishes now I've got a WATER WATCH!
@@RetroRecipesWait - isn't that what a _wishdosher_ is for?
I'm looking for a small old cheap portable computer for writing and taking notes for school what would you suggest?
I think learning that 0% Guinness exists is more of a shock than a watch that runs on beer. Crazy stuff!
Unfortunately not in my country, at least not that I know of. But I'll definitely keep an eye open for it.
ive had it, its good, although im more of a wheat beer drinker, and dont do the darker ones much (I like the NA Stela Artois and Heineken the most for what we have local, and if i can find it, Asahi Zero in the asian markets, although i guess im not picky with NA beer lol - i have bad boughts of gout so i avoid alcohol now)
Yep, and it's surprisingly good at that. Tastes pretty close to the real thing, which was a surprise to me the first time I had it! The only thing is that it doesn't keep its head when poured quite as well.
@@talideon Meh. No alcohol is tasteless.
It’s only good for powering on the watches, mind you.
I'm surprised that watch could tell the time with the amount of beer you fed it.
“This watch runs on beer”
Well so do I!!!
I like how 8-Bit Guy recently got fed up and tried to set the record straight on PCB. I'm pretty convinced it does in fact stand for Pretty Cool Beerwatch.
But why did he make up what it's an initialism of??
@@RetroRecipes He doesn’t want us to know the Commander X16 runs on beer. That wouldn’t be family friendly.
I remember these in the shops in the 80's. They were really expensive.
Happy New Year
Surely, you should now be called Mommy Fractic and Daddy Fractic?!?
Happy New Year from New Zealand!!!! Have a wonderful 2024!! Blessings, Fractic-family!!!🎉🎉🎉
Six pints of beer, package of peanuts, a towel, and it’s time to go!
Thanks for this episode! It's like a mix between the old episodes (love the classic music) and new elements. Great!
Glad you liked it!
And finally the term watering hole makes sense
I had this model in a fully transparent version at the time. Started using a syringe to fill it, because it was much faster. It stopped working after a while.
I've had the exact same version shown in this video for about ten years, but haven't used it much, as the metal 'battery' parts will wear out.
I hope you do voiceover work. I can listen to you all day.
Interesting one, never seen water powered wrist watch before. Had regular battery powered digital watches in the 80's, and even today. Not long ago I also installed battery for my 1989 Citizen ana-digi watch after some 20+ years being without battery. Digital watch came alive immediatly, but analog side woke up a bit later, stayed in sync with the digital clock about 1,5 weeks, until started getting behind. I'm guessing over 34 years old lubricants may have become sticky or something :P
"This watch runs on beer." -- So do I. lol
I had the light-grey version. The battery went longer than my enthusiasm. Thanks for the memory, though :)
I'm completely flabbergasted! I live a short walk away from the former "Meyer & Stüdeli" watch factory in Solothurn (Soleure in French), Switzerland, and would never have expected to see 4:00 with "my" Jura mountains in the background on this channel which I've watched for quite some years. For what it's worth, it was later known as "Roamer" (there is still a bus stop with that name, one station before mine). But I'm not sure whether they had anything to do with the later MST when they produced "Roamer" watches (until the 1970's), maybe they branched off at some point in time...
I was a little kid in 1987 and this was the first time I've ever seen one of those. That is pretty cool would have loved to rock one back then, sans the beer of course. My parents wouldn't have been on board with that being used as the medium lol.
Get's pulled over by the police.. "It smells like Beer in here.. Have you been drinking?" "No officer, just refilling my watch"
I actually used that line on new year's and it worked!
Thank you Ladyfractic Perifractic and Babyfractic have a great new year and thank you for this whole year of Retro Recipes
You're welcome! Thank you and the same to you!
🎶I've got this feeling,... Somebody's watching me-eeeeh! 🎶
Happy New Year, Fractic-Family , from the Netherlands. 👋
A true technological innovation.
I used to have a watch like this that ran on water back in the early 90's. I remember it only being cheap at the time.
The calculator watch was always the biggest flex.
Great family video! Congratulations - is this the first viewing of Baby Fractic? As for the Beer watch - who knew? Interesting explanation of the "battery." I wonder if there is a "potato battery" watch out there somewhere?
It hurt "watching" that Guinness being poured down the sink.. lol. Thanks for using the eye dropper after! :)
A Live Sound Engineer's addition to his kit! Thanks and greetings from Belgium.
I never knew these things ran on beer (just like me) I got an alarm clock version in August 2022 and I put some bottled water in it. Right now it's 31/12/23 and it's still going on the same water and just as strong. Great, brilliant, little products :)
This was so randomly interesting. I was thinking " I have no interest in a watch powered by beer". Watches video the third time 😆. Happy New Year FamilyFractic !
Haha well thanks for watch-ing X3! Happy New Year!
Amazing! Happy and safe New Year to all the fractics!
Power Circuits Booster? Probably Corrosion Buster? Picnic Celebrated Baskets? Poking Chip Blender? (Just a few more PCB ideas for this one?).
Merry Christmas, thanks for your videos, very nostalgic, as this Holy time of year can be ! God bless the work.
I can't remember if I remember seeing this back in the day or not.
It's cool either way and I would love to see a modern version of it.
I mean I do have a solar powered one which I guess is even better, but still so cool!
Thanks for sharing.
Who knew that something like a watch would make a great video. Keep up the great work both of you and happy new year. 😉🥳
There are entire CZcams channels dedicated to watches. Even if they don't run on liquid, they are fascinating technology.
Happy New Year, young lady. Hope you and the fam have a good weekend.
Very entertaining! I wasn’t aware of the existence of these watches.
This was great! Thanks y'all!
Me and that watch apparently have a lot in common.
Thanks for a “Punderfull” episode :)
Best RR video and thumbnail yet. Very Mr.Beast inspired. Love it. You’re onto something…. Happy New Year and thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Hey thanks for noticing!
More content like this please! Weird adverts and contraptions from the back pages of 80's computer magazines that promised the future! I live in Ireland so this watch looks promising!
Every content is a joy for people like me!! 🤩 Great videos and quality and you both are amazing together! Everything is retro but with a modern point of view! I also like the thumbnail of this video! Beautiful, what is this effect called?? 🙏❤
That was bloody brilliant! Thumbnail was great too. Happy New year Fractic family, can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve for 2024!
Glad you liked it!!
I guess it's got the beer necessities
Good video!, nice piece of gadget history... I'd love to have had one of those.. just for the cool factor alone!
Given that the metals are consumed, wonder how long this watch would’ve lasted in total
It was probably a gimmick and manufacturers weren't actually concerned about durability, like most 80's products, that decade was filled with innovation but not every innovation was well thought to be long lasting, specially consumer products
long enough to show it to yor friends(or make a youtube video) and forget about it because it died
When I was kid we got something called a Potato clock. The gimmick was you took an uncooked potato, plugged 2 metal rods into it with wires to the clock.
It wasn't practical because potato would rot and collect flies.
I 🤔 wonder if this is a similar technology.
You know…I think there was a “Waterworld” watch. Pretty much this watch as shown here but in a Waterworld movie merchandise packaging.
Great and very interesting video about this great watch! I Like this 80's LCD style watches especialy if they come with an calculator and a game! Happy new year family-fractic!
Happy new year to you and yours!
Nice Mandala effect at the beginning of the video.
Mandela effect? Changing the packaging is not the same as the Mandela effect, that's literally just changing the packaging.
I had one of these as a kid! Probably still do, in one of many, many boxes.
Fun fact: it won't run on distilled water. Not enough electrolytes?
distilled water is not conductive enough, the salts and other minerals are what makes it conductive
I'll watch this episode again in a week or so to see if PCBWay asked them to add a disclaimer that they don't recommend making beer watches.
Remember seeing the watches in Ireland in the late 80’s. The version I saw the case was clear and the powder in the cell was orange. As an aside the zero Guinness makes me very sad, the underlining reason makes me happy :) Wishing you and yours a very happy new year!
Guinness 0% is surprisingly good, but drinking it from a can is a travesty!
@@talideonDrinking any decent beer from a can is a travesty, it should always be in a glass.
Is there an Apple Watch running on Apple Juice?.. The inner kid in me really wants a water powered watch now 😂
Want one!
Anyway, Happy New Year! 🥂
brilliant fun and it looks like you really enjoy having fun with the experiments 😂😂😂😂
Nice old watch ,I still use my old CASIO CMD -40 TV remote watch and I like it 😎👍
These were everywhere in the 80's. The copper electrode dissolves so not really a free lunch. Renters still have to use water.
This was delightful
Amazing..... I've also heard of car motor running on water (obviously different method to the watch you show here), which never made it to production......
Watching this while I wait for my watch to charge.
"the smell is just my watch, boss, honest. I didn't have three pints on my lunch break"
I had one of there back in the day my one was clear see true case so you could see all the working always thought it was grate idea
Am so late seeing this video as beer has made me drink it haha and am so loving the top. Amazing video as always and i hope you have had a great holiday as you have a little Fractic to enjoy it and am not talking about PerriFractic 😂😂. I now want a beer watch so it can drink as much as me when am out, hope 2024 bring you much love and joy and ofc the videos will keep getting better. Take care guys and have a great one 🙂🙂
Haha thanks!! Happy new year to you and yours also
I had no idea this was a thing. I really want one!
I had one of these as a kid in in the UK in the early 90s. I remember it being the same shape but blue. I think it was maybe branded by some water park.
Wow, i wonder if i can get one of these. Seems to be(er) a more reliable option than my trusty old wind-up pocket watch from the late 19 centuries.
We HarleyFractic to do the PCB commercial since she is hilarious at spouting out the PCB's for 5 dollars
She's the best!
@@RetroRecipes She is
Mmmmm... Time for another beer!🤪🤪🤪
I know you have your own Tardis in the studio but I believe you may have gone one day into the future for setting up the watch for the 31st December.
I always thought Ladyfractic was a Time Lord sent back to divert Peri from the dark side of the Sith (I’ve seen the movie).
PS a fellow Brit.
Good eye!
And as we all know PCB stands for Peri can't brew
its basically a tiny car battery they also need water to function
it will eventually stop even if you refill the water
unless you find a way to recharge it
I remember wanting one of these!
A very unusual product - although I would have tried it with water first before subjecting it to beer, just to make sure it was working ok! Long-term water would be better, reducing the possibility of leaving residue all over the terminals.
Well, you are a merman
That is a really cool product that I had no idea existed! It has me thinking about what other products are out there or what products COULD be out there (be interesting to know just how much power can be generated)
I had one of those kill fruit so a clock can run clock as a kid. RIP many fruit.
My goodness, Peri’s Guinness!
Futurama's Bender is alcohol-powered, which kinda makes sense ( no Bud Light though, hardly any alcohol)
Another great video put together by LadyFractic and PerryFractic, now AKA MommyFractic and DaddyFractic. When the video started i straight away thought, "I wonder what the science is that makes this watch work" and you did not disappoint as you explained it in the video. All the best to you guys for the new year. Love from Australia.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watch-ing!
Hey, i haven't been on the channel for a while, and missed the fact that you were expacting!! Congratulations on becoming parents! 😁
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
Ladyfractic's thumbnail has an extra thumbnail - look closely - six fingers on that right hand ;)
I came here just to comment this!
Yikes! Don't tell Inigo
That’s okay because she only has four on her left hand. 😂
😂😂😂 I'm normally good at pointing stuff like that out but totally missed it!!! Good eye! 😃
Ah...I see what you meme
I had a water watch, much like that one but a transparent case with the holes on the top face above the display. It worked but got discoloured / limescale and became less effective as it was hard to clean.
I had one many years ago when i was at school one of my teachers insisted there must be a normal battery in there ,despite the fact it was see through.
Time to whip out my Bud Light water watch.
Imagine how much power some Lite Beer could generate in that watch!
This channel combines 2 of my biggest childhood loves, Star Wars and the C64 :D
BTW what breed is PuppyFractic may I ask? what a gorgeous and intelligent looking dog !!
same
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹 She's a German Shepherd Great Pyrenees mix
Ok I admit it, I like the watch. That's really cool!
11/10 pun game there! 😅
I feel that I should have seen the pun at 7:53 coming from a mile off, but I didn't. Nice.
Reminds me of the watches the crew wore in Alien.
almost like wearing a mini lead acid battery(same principal)
How do you depress those buttons......you take it's Guinness away.....dadum-tssssh. Merry new holidays week.
Very cool!
never knew there was such a thing, but beer drinkers would be horrified to waist beer, i use to look for the latest model of watch to see what extra gadgets they could have, now I wear a old watch
Especially NA beer as its a bit more expensive sometimes.
Looks good. Don’t know if people would buy something like this in this era tho. Only people like you and me who love nostalgic stuff like this.
It's a great conversation starter
@@monsoon1234567890- Yeah, like a conversation with your boss about why you’re three hours late. 😂
The fog in my area where I live was so thick I tried to grab it, then I mist
i want the beer watch
Wouldn't worry she has 3 one the other hand, so it all equals out. No extra nails , thumbs or otherwise 😂
This watch doesn't look familiar, but I feel like I must have seen one of the variations at Sharper Image or the back of a Popular Science magazine.
If not, why not?! beer power