Weak hands & watch batteries
 

What do people with weak hands do when they need to replace a watch battery? Surely people don't take their thirty dollar Timex watches to jewelers to have the batteries replaced?

The nice young woman at Kinney's popped the back off for me and put the battery in, but she couldn't get the back on again either. Her professional opinion was that Timex watches are the hardest ones to deal with.

I'm ready to throw it away and buy a new watch. Grrr. Bob has been wrestling with it for ten minutes. He'll probably break the crystal before he gets done. Oh well. Is there a trick? Are we on Candid Camera?

Have you tried to needle a thread, lately..:eek: :mad: :D

Someone told me if it's water-resistent or proof. don't try, you can't get back on right. For 5-10 bucks there's a place at our mall that does it. Jewelers are too expensive. Good luck.

I always take my watch to WalMart or Target. (Target does a better job I think)

I have taken my watches to places like the Jewelry departments in Von Maur or Dillards, and they'll do the batteries there too. Havent done that in awhile, since I quit wearing a watch when my arm was numb last year. I wear pendant watches now, or I'll just use the clock on my cellphone.

What Erin said. I'm fortunate enough to con hubby into it most times, but there's a local store where I live that will replace the battery for you in their jewelry department.

I take mine to a jeweler's kiosk at our mall. For the cost of the battery, they change it for me.

I always take watches to the jeweler (not a kiosk, but one of those shee shee places). For 5-7 bucks I buy a watch battery and he installs it. sets it and polishes it for free. Sometimes the "jewelry store" is good value. Heck, he even inspects, cleans and polishes my wedding set for free while I am there.

I do this for the $5 Kmart watches, Timex and my good watch - he could care less what I bring him and long as he has a customer who spreads good word of mouth PR.

I used to work for TIMEX, and they do not recommend that a person changes their own battery for the reason kicker mentioned.

As kicker said, most jewellers will do it cheaply enough, and a battery usually lasts a couple of years.

Cherie

well i for one don't use a watch, but I have a nice pocket watch, i had to bring in to have battery replaced, i could not for the life of me get it opened,

this may sound weird but you can ask deb about it i can usually guess the time to with in ten minutes I have no idea i have always been able to do this i have a good internal clock i guess, really freaks out my kids and deb lol, I did it at the hospital(this weekend) twice to same doc, and the doc looked around for a clock but it was on wall behind me, she even asked how did i do that

[personally i wouldn't spend a lot on a watch i break them or lose them :Bang-Head: ]

I meant...thread a needle..:rolleyes:

I didn't even catch that. What does that say about my eye brain coordination? :D

I could never get the back off a watch -- even when my hands were normal!!!! Used to go to a jeweler, but Walmart is closer!

Sally -- Thought you were just kidding.....or else maybe it was an "Ohioism"????

Frank -- Bad spellers "untie"? Isn't it strange, you just expect it to be unite and the brain doesn't even catch it for awhile! By the way, what time is it??

Seems like I have a whole drawer of watches that need batteries, but then I don't really wear them much anymore since I'm always at home. Plus I'd rather wear my "Life Alert" as a bracelet instead of a pendant -- when I wear it. Kind of irritates the skin on my arm. blab, blab, blab........

i had a shirt and i cant tell you how many read it wrong it was pretty weird, they use to ask me what does it mean unite lol and i would say to deb may be it should say bad readers

Well, Sally, SOMEBODY's always needling these threads...:D

OK, I have a plan. I've had three people try to get the back on that sucker, and it just isn't happening. I COULD take a four year old $28 watch to a jeweler somewhere, or to Walmart (only an hour and a half drive each way).

But I think I'm going to set the back in place the best I can and superglue it. Then when the battery dies, I'll buy another watch. So there.

Batteries in watches...Bah! Doesn't anyone make an old-time watch anymore that you had to wind up? I used to have a pretty cool pocket watch that only needed winding. It kept good time, too. Until I dunked it into the Mississippi River once. I even recall old Timex watches that needed winding. But now I'm dating myself.

They make solar-powered watches also, that don't need batteries, but for too much $$$$$ for my budget. I wouldn't dare wear one.