fokin ell, droped my watch at the jewellers and went and did a bit of shopping, went back anhour later and got a bill for £35 quid, i nearly fell over, i have a citizen eco drive (quite a nice watch) and it has a rechargable battery but they fook up if you dont wear your watch to charge the battery, will be wearing it a bit more than normal

 

ive heard of a device you can put your watch on to mimic the movement of your arm to keep them charged, anyone know what it is or where to get one

been on the window sill for 3 days mate

Yeh but your surpose to open the curtains Alan.;)

pmsl @ vinz, never thought of that, but wont they see me jossling my wrist lol

now that really is geeky!

 

That's not geeky - it's got the numbers on it!

£35:eek: I paid £6 for mine last week and thought I over paid for that.

 

I have a bit of a watch fetish and own a few Swiss timepieces; so IMO £35 doesn't sound to bad for a specialist....

 

......I took my Tag Aqua Racer Chronograph for a new battery and Ernest Jones charged just over £50. That did include a full pressure test to ensure water resistance to 300m though.

 

Worst thing was that they fecked up the stopwatch function. When I got it back, I tried the stop watch and it didn't reset itself to 12 o'clock. I had to take it back again and they had to send it away. Again. They did fix it eventually and I got them to refund the money for my "inconvenience" Ernest Jones; "the diamond and watch specialists" I don't think so!!!:o

 

Richard;)

When my watch needed a new strap......................it had to be sent to Finland to get it fitted. Only took a week to get there and back tho':D