1985 seamaster quartz

If it is full of acid due to a leaking flat battery (all too common) then it is worth practically nothing. If after a new battery is dropped in it runs then its worth maybe £100. I'd try a new battery myself and see what happens. ebay is the best bet. If it doesn't run after you try a new battery, don't be a dick and pretend you have no idea about the condition, tell the truth either way.

Agreed, but it doesn't make it right. If you sell a quartz watch you know wont run after a battery change with a 'no idea' shrug you are being a dick IMO. Just my ivory tower, perfect world view of course.

Oh that wasn't my suggestion, I was merely imploring you to not do as many ebay sellers do ie to not behave dishonestly. No apology needed on your part of course, and there was no slight intended on my part, but if it didn't happen quite so often I wouldn't have mentioned it.

Sorry you took offence, perhaps like the watch, and like myself you are from Birmingham (well West Brom is close), and therefore utterly trustworthy 😉 but perhaps you'd be amazed how often people say things in posts here that do suggest they have dubious morals.

Battery has leaked, one contact is missing...unless you can find a complete circuit, it's probably not worth trying to repair.

The 255.111 is the replacement - discontinued but you could likely find one.

I had an interesting experience today. It’s a very involved story so I’ll by pass most of it but I got permission to get into a town storage locker to collect belongings of a girl I work with who had gotten evicted. Of course I had to go through all the dirty crap and carry all the heavy boxes but I found a pulsar watch in the disaster unit and put it in her hand. She began crying and told me it was her mother’s watch who had recently passed away. She asked me to set it for her I explained it’s a quartz we would need to find a new battery and I warned her it very well may be shot if that dead battery leaked. Oh my goodness the look she gave me and said “Jim your telling me my mothers watch won’t run.” I stopped in my tracks I was too focused on the task at hand and I realized she had something of significant meaning to her. TBH I felt a bit like an idiot.
I told her let me load up the van and we will get you a new battery and see what happens. I was forgetting to many people the brand name does not matter especially if it’s a loved ones watch. I hate when I do that it. Despite being a pulsar it had a screw on back so I couldn’t just pop of the back. We drove to the local jewelry place I asked then to put a fresh battery in. They looked at me a little strange but of course just replaced it and I’ll be darned if it didn’t start ticking right away. I had a big smile as I returned to the car with her running pulsar watch and she lit up like a Christmas tree. Went into her wallet to pay me for the battery I told her don’t worry I’ll bill the company. (Can’t bill the company but probably the best 8 or ten bucks I spent in a while) I couldn’t help but notice on the ride back she kept looking at her watch like a true collector would who just got his grail, or a Rolex flipper looking at something he just got for MSRP and was going to quintuple his money.

Grails are funny things. I don’t want to be a watch snob even though I’m like a low mid tier watch guy anyway. I looked at the skx007 I was wearing and thought, “ I could probably just be happy only having watches in the skx price range. Of course now I’m looking at WRUW and want all the watches I can’t afford but someday everything’s gonna be sweet like rhapsody, when I paint my masterpiece. I’m just glad there are a lot of options and price levels available in watches as spending a boatload on a timepiece is all well and good but I guarantee she wouldn’t trade her moms pulsar for any of the 1,000’s of beautiful watches I see here daily. Sorry to hijack the thread didn’t want to start a new thread as I was concerned it would come across as attention seeking and one of the idiot know it all’s would say “you need therapy”