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pretend I have some style or class as a person with ‘Director’ as a job title
I was an 'Associate Director' of something once 🙂
I dunno, just saying.
By some bizarre coincidence, my son texted me last night to say his watch battery had died. He hasn't had much experience in such issues and neither have I in a lockdown type situation.
What's his best bet for getting it replaced?
Send it to Derek. 😉
(The other Derek I presume 😉 )
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Timpson’s
There's your problem...
No way I'd let a Timpsons gibbon change the battery in a Casio (mainly because I have my own opposable thumbs), let alone a vintage Omega!
I'd not hand it back to them to "Make good" if it had really been pressure tested the back shouldn't fall off, they've clearly not carried out the work they were paid for and given the value of the watch (and presumably personal/emotional value?) wouldn't trust them to not balls it up further if given a second chance.
Tell them you want a refund, and never use them again.
I'd google a local watch maker, get them to give it the once over and do the pressure test Timpsons claim they carried out...
I don’t think you need an outdoor watch. Unless you don’t have a phone/GPS/laptop/tablet/PC etc.
Dunno, my general estimation of others is partly based on whether or not they wear a watch. Relying on a phone/asking others for the time indicates a general lack of preparedness (IMO).
The someone wears is entirely up to them, but I just don't think you can rely on people who don't wear a watch... Is that odd?
I just don’t think you can rely on people who don’t wear a watch… Is that odd?
Speaking as someone who always wears a watch, yes, thinking people who don't wear one are unreliable is pretty odd.
What’s his best bet for getting it replaced?
Most of them are very easy to DIY, he might need a case back remover or a small screwdriver depending what the watch is. If he's happy enough to have a go (and maybe he's not because he's asked you...) he could almost certainly buy any necessary tool and the battery for much less than Timpson's or similar will charge. What's the watch? If it's something really posh he might be better off not risking the learning curve.
Sadly not true – Kinetics need the capacitor/ battery replacing every so often. In my limited experience, that involves sending it to Seiko, who then charge you 10% less than the cost of buying a new one
Well its true so far, 15 years in to near daily use. In fact, thinking about it, it was a wedding present so nearly 20 years of use.
Sounds like you've been lucky. When I looked at them the life of the cap was estimated at 10years so little different to the '10 year batteries' that Seiko fit
(though in the Seiko's I've got/had with the 10 year batteries they last nothing like that long. looking back through my emails I've got a mail to Seiko complaining that the battery supplied with the watch lasted just over 2 years and the replacement fitted by Seiko just over 3 years. The next seemed to last 7 years but when I sent it back for battery replacement that time, at a total of 12 years old, Seiko said there was a more serious unknown problem and quoted £171 for a 'vintage quartz movement service'. . That was the point at which I vowed never to buy an expensive watch again....
though in the Seiko’s I’ve got/had with the 10 year batteries they last nothing like that long
Casio have "10 year battery" proudly printed on a lot of their watches, though if you ever read the manual that's dependent on you not using the light, alarms or time signals that are a big feature of the same watches. I'm not sure what Seiko can be using as a get-out on a standard 3-hander though.
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Timpsons’ owner prides himself on customer service so an email to head office might be in order if the guy in the shop won’t do you a refund.
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<div class="bbcode-quote">Timpsons give their staff the authority to resolve problems themselves – giving the customer option B (send it on to to another department) because the customer wasn’t happy with option A (solving the problem at the store) was part of that.
So that’s two perfectly reasonable offers to resolve the problem. What else can they offer?
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Er… a refund?
Thats within the power of the shop staff too. No need to go to head office. The shop staff haven't refused a refund - they hadn't been asked for one in the OP - they've offered solutions - the OP didn't say whether he'd taken up their offer or refused it - just that he's cheesed off. But the worker in the shop has authority to solve the problem - the customer just has to be clear about what would make them happy.
Speaking as someone who always wears a watch, yes, thinking people who don’t wear one are unreliable is pretty odd.
I suppose I simply see a watch as being a basic tool for day to day functioning; so if someone doesn't wear one, to me it indicates they don't consider/keep track of time, worry about being prompt or ultimately whether or not they're wasting other people's time. And I suppose I tend to assume that attitude extends to other aspects of their life.
Don't misunderstand me, It's not something I see as a defining characteristic, I'm not hugely distrustful of the watchless.
I married one, my missus almost never wears a watch (although she is consistently late and disorganised) I still love her.
But she's she's not a particularly reliable or attentive person, it's not intentional it's just a minor facet of her personality, and to some extent lots of other non-watch wearers I've known over the years, there's no malice there, they're just a bit unreliable...
Maybe its a correlation vs causation thing, it's not that people who don't wear watches are unreliable, it's that at least some people who are unreliable, happen not to wear watches and I've erroneously linked the two things...
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