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Anyone change their own?
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Yes. 20 for a pound from pound land. (5 Different sizes)
I use those pliers that are very narrow at the end.
** I'm talking about a £100 watch here. Anything fancy then best go to a jewellers who charge a fortune.
I know a fella who sells watches that don't need a battery. Not sure how they work, he sounds like a wind up merchant.
GF bought me a Tissot, bless her, battery ran out after a year or two. Website: 'go to one of a handful of specialists, cost about £60 and up' Went to an old-school watch repairer in Bristol's Gloucester Road, he did it in front of me there and then, charged me a fiver and no, this was recently not donkeys' ears ago
I do indeed change my own, having been paying a fiver at jewelers.
I bought the tools years ago for next to nothing, and usually buy them for something like £1.50 for two.
Bought a pack of 50 for £1.99, and there are 10 of 5 sizes.
As usual, someone on here said I've been robbed, and could get them for less at a "Pound Shop"!
I bought the tools years ago for next to nothing, and usually buy them for something like £1.50 for two.
Bought a pack of 50 for £1.99, and there are 10 of 5 sizes.
As usual, someone on here said I've been robbed, and could get them for less at a "Pound Shop"!
As usual, someone on here said I've been robbed,
Name and shame.
Name and shame.
My everyday watch was so cheap it will probably cost less to replace the watch when the battery dies 
I always change my own. Have a back opening tool off ebay that allows you to properly open funny backs without resorying to mangling it with a screwdriver and it cost just a few quid, and I've a watchmakers screwdriver set for removing the tiny screws that often hold the battery in place.
Points to note are to be careful with those screws (so like do on a table maybe in a tray not standing over some wooden floor with gaps for them to fall in - like I did once) and pay attention to how it comes apart as some have a wierd contact onto a thing stuck on the back for a beeper, if it has it.
Points to note are to be careful with those screws (so like do on a table maybe in a tray not standing over some wooden floor with gaps for them to fall in - like I did once) and pay attention to how it comes apart as some have a wierd contact onto a thing stuck on the back for a beeper, if it has it.
I had a "Seiko" that didn't need batteries or winding.....It was kinetic!
When I told people it was kinetic, they would say they didn't think it was that bad!
When I told people it was kinetic, they would say they didn't think it was that bad!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Casio-Collection-Analogue-Display-MQ-24-7BLL/dp/B000JNKABW/ref=lp_5120087031_1_2?s=watch&ie=UTF8&qid=1506429327&sr=1-2&nodeID=5120087031&psd=1
My watch.
What's a battery?
My watch.
What's a battery?
It's the thing inside that watch that keeps the hands turning. If you've been winding it all this time, I don't want to be the one to break it to you...
I had a watch that was advertised as being safer when driving but it was just useless, just a dot in the middle? So much for being Hands Free.
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