This is my beater watch. A Fossil quartz that was a rummage sale find for about $5 (IIRC). Wasn't running but popped a new battery in and off she went. There was no bracelet and I later realized that this watch must have had an integrated brac…
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Was just given 2 dead watches by my wife and as I had one of my own it was battery changing day. I keep record of when I've changed batteries and realized that I have a Tissot PR-100, that gets plenty of wrist time, whose battery was last chan…
Continue readingI bought a case back press
As reported in another thread I had 3 watches to change batteries. All had the (to me anyway) dreaded snap on case back. I have changed my own batteries for several years and have used a variety of probably non-approved methods to get the case back …
Continue readingDo you wait until your batteries at dead before replacing?
Was just given 2 dead watches by my wife and as I had one of my own it was battery changing day. I keep record of when I've changed batteries and realized that I have a Tissot PR-100, that gets plenty of wrist time, whose battery was last chan…
Continue readingShould the case back align with the watch face?
I was looking at the back of my fairly new Bulova Jet Star when I noticed that the case back was not exactly aligned with the band and watch face. Not any kind of issue but especially on a screw case back should it perfectly align front to bottom? …
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