Quartz battery change at home...

[Archer]

galaxytime

Is that a Ronda 705 in a watch that retails for over $2K?

Welcome to the world of luxury watches...

JimInOz

Yes, probably. But it is stamped FENDI, so it's an "in-house" movement.

Actually it didn't even have that...

 

[JimInOz]

Archer

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Actually it didn't even have that...

Was talking about the original one Al.

 

[Archer]

And he's back for round 2! Our intrepid home battery changer called me in a panic, saying that he couldn't get the case back on another of his wife's watches by pressing with his thumbs. So he dropped off another bag of parts - this one is less concerning than the last one:



He told me he pressed so hard he caved in the back:



So the first job was to flatten that back out again, so the case back would properly snap on:



Then the case back was installed - all good - took about 5 minutes total...





I will direct him to an inexpensive press that might help him do these in the future...

 

[DrmexicoII]

I thought his wife had banned him from attempting watch related activities after the last episode?!

 

[JimInOz]

Archer

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I will direct him to an inexpensive press that might help him do these in the future...

Be a good idea to show him how to use top and bottom dies the correct way as well, otherwise his next visit could be for a cracked crystal replacement.

 

[noless]

I'm curious as to how you go about getting the casebacks flat again, I have a similarly caved in case from a watch i bought as a donor, it would seem the previous owner dented the caseback trying to put it back on and then gave up and that's how I got it so cheaply, but I was thinking that perhaps using a small enough die i could press it back to flat with the case closing press, but never did get around to turning up something small enough to fit inside.

 

[Archer]

noless

I'm curious as to how you go about getting the casebacks flat again, I have a similarly caved in case from a watch i bought as a donor, it would seem the previous owner dented the caseback trying to put it back on and then gave up and that's how I got it so cheaply, but I was thinking that perhaps using a small enough die i could press it back to flat with the case closing press, but never did get around to turning up something small enough to fit inside.

I did just exactly that - used a very small die that would fit inside the case back and flattened it with the case press. One set of dies that I have goes down to 15 mm.

 

[joeshoup]

Aroxx

It’s more cost effective to order a 5 or 10 pack on Amazon than to buy just one battery so I’ve ended up with quite the collection of watch batteries

My god we should compare collections... I went to change the battery on my dancing hands Seiko and I realized my 344 batteries expired 3 years ago... Whoops!

 

[Archer]

I sent him the invoice and information on presses - got this as part of the email back...

"I will check out the presses. I am thinking that my battery replacing days may be over."

 

[Pastorbottle]

They should’ve been over before they’d begun

 

[SOG53]

joeshoup

My god we should compare collections... I went to change the battery on my dancing hands Seiko and I realized my 344 batteries expired 3 years ago... Whoops!

Similar thing just happened to me with wifes dead Volvo key fob- changed battery with one of those large 2032 batteries I had done it before so was feeling pretty smug about it- and it didnt work. So I called Volvo dealer to complain and they said check the expiry date on the one I just installed and sure enough it was Mar 2023. New battery worked fine. At least I didnt eviscerate the fob....