Watch batteries

[J P Stein]

Now that I'm retired, I no longer wear a watch.......I do still have a calandar.....somewhere.

[red-beard]

Fify

Originally Posted by leeh

anybody want to buy a watch???

[quattrorunner]

Originally Posted by 1990C4S

They have lots of spare time. When the watch dies they get it fixed same day. Lots of people wait months because they are busy.

Maybe this is it.
I ask questions and people tell me things too though and about batteries going out at the same or around the same time, I get that often. "For years they all work and now they're all dead?" They could be wrong though. It's too odd.
People 80 or so say their watch only lasts a year or Less? Either the watch is dirty or they're draining the battery on their own somehow.
Someone explain the "on their own somehow" because I am wondering about that. Energy draw? Just a thought.
Batteries do not stop draining with the stem pulled btw. They do draw slower but they still die. I always tell people the money saved on a battery pulling the stem is spent on wear and tear setting those fragile wheels the correct time. Set and forget I always say.
Mechanical movements are designed to be set often.
Right now I wear a eta6497 inside a new 47mm watch case. I gave my dad some old pocket watches which he loves (he's a watchmaker) and he gave me this back with one of the pocket watch movements inside. It's from the fifties and still kickin it. I wind it once a day. Old school. Matches the big look everyone is doing these days but my watch is actually filled with watch. Cool