@@islandwatch awesome video, just what I needed! I had an important question, you know when replacing a quartz battery, some watches like mine have a coating on the front face but when unscrewing the back of the watch, will that effect that blue-ish coating at all?
Just a PSA as an electrical engineer guys, never touch both sides of the button cell with a metallic tweezer. The side with the writings is positive and the other side is negative. When you touch both sides with the tweezer it creates a short circuit that pulls a lot of current from the battery which these button cells are not designed to do thereby damaging them. Although due to the chemistry of these batteries, it's not possible to draw a lot of current from these button cells, it is not advisable to short them as that does damage the performance of the battery. Also, to be over the top careful, wear a earthing wrist strap before touching the movement. Guys living in cold weather, we build up a lot of static due to the clothes and shoes we wear so ground yourself before working on any electronics as a rule of thumb.
Changing my boyfriend's watch battery for his birthday and struggled a lot because there was no place I could put the screw in to open the cap. Then I found out about this video and I finally managed to open the cap. I'm so thankful!
I knew it couldn't be brain surgery and you showed that it isn't. This is great! I have a ton of watches that need batteries and now I'm confident I can do it myself. I also just got a kit with tools for all this and I want to try it out. Thanks so much for such a detailed video!
Thanks, bud. You just got me out of a pickle. I could not figure out how the heck to get the battery out of my watch, and you suggested that yours was spring loaded and demonstrated it, and mine look different but was pretty much the same. Thank you!
A million thanks for this very helpful video. I have just changed the battery on a Lorus which has been lying in a draw for years. Being rather cack handed, it wasn't easy, but I did it, and saved myself quite a tidy sum in £'s.
Thanks Mark. Now going to change the battery on my Zeppelin Hindenburg. Looks the same movement. Never know a quartz low battery warning mode displaying the second hand doing four second jumps. Thanks again .
Thanks Mark! I've been waiting on this tutorial for some time. I have about 40 watches and about half are quarts so this tutorial will come in handy in the future, Not sure if I brave enough to tackle the batteries that have screws holding them down yet. Those screws are real small.
It's April of 2020, and one of my Coronavirus stay-at-home activities is replacing dead watch batteries. (some watches surfaced when rearranging my sock drawer, (another self-isolating activity!) BTW that Junkers movement is near identical to my '90s Bulova. Thanks for this.
Great and useful for enthusiasts work you have done again, man! Hats off! I think that rubber gloves, not the knit gloves are the best for this job as well as for lots of other watch handling instances. Kind of making your beloved ball useless so I don't know if you'd agree with the rubber gloves and give the ball up :) Make sure your gloves are the premium and powder-free kinds. You really had to go an extra step and not use metal tweezers in this educational video. Also: it would help to visualize the back lid placement before taking it off to make sure back is put back on tight and even after the battery replacement.
Hallo Mark Big fan of yours! I just have changed a lot of batterys myself. Learned from UA-cam and just went for it. The tricky ones are always the watches with pop caseback. In the past years I broke two glasses, one from a Seiko with a pop caseback and one from a real cheap watch. I just couldn't apply even pressure and crackt it. Man big disappointment, bought a press now. Still no fan of pop caseback. Just one little thing you forgot to mention. There are a lot of movements that won't start after changing the battery. I've had that with Seiko and Casio watches. It is not broken, you just have to use your tweezers and put it on the point in the watch movement that is marked for it and then the battery. Then it wil start running again.
I think I discovered the best way to save money on batteries. Twenty years ago I started taking the batteries out of my watches, only putting them back in when I wanted to know the time. I've not had to by new batteries since 2002.
Thanks for a great tutorial on something I need to do right now!!! It makes me realize that I’m NOT going to attempt this! I’m old and on a lot of meds, so my hands are to shakey to even attempt this on one of my favorite watches! I would shake at the wrong time, and that would be the end of my little Bulova diver!!! 🥴🤮😪
Just a quick question....and recognizing you already mentioned the "caution" of using metal tweezers...when you handle the new watch battery and hold it with the tweezers on the top and bottom surface.....aren't you completing the "circuit" and can this yield a "short"? Obviously you did this for all 3 watches and nothing bad happened, but just asking as to proper way to go on this? Probably plastic tweezers, right?
I have two watches that have been frozen for a while. My uncle Phil used to be the watch expert in my family. He passed last December. Rest In Peace Phil. We love you.
Great video, Marc...and pretty much illustrated why I largely gave up on quartz, save for one solar-powered number (Casio Edifice, replacing a Citizen Eco-Drive that got clobbered in a bad fall I took over a year ago). If I told you how many *non*-cheap quartz watches I've owned that were essentially butchered by various and sundry jewelers' shops over the last two decades (the biggest three-word lie emblazoned in front of these shops is "WATCHMAKER ON PREMISES"), the sum total of those watches would've much more than paid for that Torneau your folks so nicely gifted you with. 'Course, mechanicals are far more interesting to me anyway.
Thanks for this video Mark, lots of helpful info. I removed the back of a cheap quartz watch yesterday , Removed the dead battery and snapped the back on. Unable to get the back off today for the new battery. Can’t see any notch for leverage, a very tight fit. Hope I will succeed with the proper tools.
Maybe you can help: When opening my watch to replace the battery I discovered that a very small metal part (L shaped, that's the part that makes the contact between the battery and the watch) broke. DO YOU KNOW THIS PART NAME AND WHERE TO BUY THEM? Thanks
Nice video. Thank you. Could you also provide a how to for battery replacements that require "resetting" after charging the battery? There seem to be some watches that have a RESET button on them. Thanks
For pushing batteries down into place, a the eraser on a pencil works pretty well. Better than hard, slippery tweezers or fingers and won't slip into the movement.
This may sound silly but this technique works really well (for me): To pop the back on my Bulova(s) 98E000 and 96E03 (battery replacement "renata 395") I found that a flat carpenter's pencil works well. Helps to be standing up. I put the watch face down on a mouse pad and work the back cover from the bottom up with my thumbs opposing each other on the flat side of the pencil. Need to keep constant pressure on it as you slowly press and slide the pencil. No need to pull apart a watch band either! By the way, don't work to close to the edge of a table or desk so you don't launch your watch onto the floor.
Thank you Marc, I too have a Junkers pilot watch that I just tried replacing the battery in. Your directions were perfect and I stayed away from the copper coil. However, the lesson I learned is to check battery voltage on new battery before inserting. Only after taking out and checking voltage did I see it only registered .38 volts. Can you recommend a good source for watch batteries? Thank you for all your great videos and watch store!
I was telling my pool supply store the same thing. Seems every time I purchase or have my pool water analyzed they ask me for my phone #. Now I give them 0123456789.
Very useful video. But what do you have to do with watches that require to “shorten the ‘+’ and ‘AC’? Found that in some watches, can’t figure out what that means or what I have to do. Any info would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks for the last minute cautions. I just replaced the battery in my late mother-in-law's Lindenwold wrist watch. If we're going to keep a keepsake we should keep it running. Now, can you come to California and put my Sunbeam automatic toaster back together?😇
I forgot to ask where would I be able to buy a case back knife (i think that is what you called it) the little knife you opened the back with? Thanks :)
That Junkers with the candy cane hands is really cool. Even a couple of battery replacements can justify the cost of a simple watch tool kit. I resize bracelets for about a half dozen people, the irony is that I don't have to resize them for myself ( most bracelets fit out of the box ), so I just micro adjust down if needed.
Hi Mark, love all your vids. Quick question if I may. I have a Seiko flightmaster and when purchased the battery lasted for at least 5 years. Had it replaced at a jewelry store and the jeweler said there was some leakage from the old battery. The new battery lasted only 7 months. Should I junk it? Send to Seiko to have cleaned, perhaps clean it myself?? Did he just use a cheap battery?
Great video! Have you done a video showing how to change batteries in G-Shocks? I gather it's much harder to open up those indestructible G-Shock cases, than the cases on most watches.
My watch has the same movement as your Junkers. Wasn’t sure what that retention spring was and initially was going to just pry the battery out with force. SO glad I caught your video here Marc, you kept me from killing my watch!
Is it important for the lever to be touching certain parts of the watch? Because I kind of bent it (to replace a battery) and now my watch has stopped ticking. Is there any way to fix it?
in the junkers one, can I ask you what is the little red piece of thin plastic under the battery, and if it is important? I was replacing battery on my old watch, which also needed a clean and accidentally the little piece of plastic fell out. Do I have to replace it too?
In lighting, close focus, and explanation, you are the gold standard for internet how-to videos. Thank you.
Thanks so much, I appreciate that.
@@islandwatch awesome video, just what I needed! I had an important question, you know when replacing a quartz battery, some watches like mine have a coating on the front face but when unscrewing the back of the watch, will that effect that blue-ish coating at all?
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Just a PSA as an electrical engineer guys, never touch both sides of the button cell with a metallic tweezer. The side with the writings is positive and the other side is negative. When you touch both sides with the tweezer it creates a short circuit that pulls a lot of current from the battery which these button cells are not designed to do thereby damaging them. Although due to the chemistry of these batteries, it's not possible to draw a lot of current from these button cells, it is not advisable to short them as that does damage the performance of the battery. Also, to be over the top careful, wear a earthing wrist strap before touching the movement. Guys living in cold weather, we build up a lot of static due to the clothes and shoes we wear so ground yourself before working on any electronics as a rule of thumb.
As another (energy) engineer, this is exactly what I was about to say in the comment section.
This is exactly what came to mind when I saw metal tweezers used to pickup the battery.
Good advice. I've always gone with a plastic tweezers 👍
can i use ceramic tweezers?
@@brianmsahin where to get plastic tweezers and which one?
You speak so distinctly, nice & slow, so easy to follow. Pleasant fellow. I have learned so much already! Thank you!
Changing my boyfriend's watch battery for his birthday and struggled a lot because there was no place I could put the screw in to open the cap. Then I found out about this video and I finally managed to open the cap. I'm so thankful!
Wish someone gave me a battery for my birthday
I knew it couldn't be brain surgery and you showed that it isn't. This is great! I have a ton of watches that need batteries and now I'm confident I can do it myself. I also just got a kit with tools for all this and I want to try it out. Thanks so much for such a detailed video!
You have a Lithuanian last name, if you didnt already know
I was able to change the battery in my watch after seeing this video. Thank you for the useful information.
Thank you. Great example of someone who is in the business and really knows what they are doing. Thanks again.
A Cooper grad, I knew there was something else about how good these videos are.
That little notch on the caseback I was unaware of. Thank you so much.
Great tutorial! I appreciate how streamlined the instructions are
Thanks, bud. You just got me out of a pickle. I could not figure out how the heck to get the battery out of my watch, and you suggested that yours was spring loaded and demonstrated it, and mine look different but was pretty much the same. Thank you!
Thanks Mark. I have the same Junkers / Ronda watch that I bought from you and just changed the battery while watching this video. Still running well.
I found your video, and finally changed the battery in my watch!!! Thank you a lot!!!
A million thanks for this very helpful video. I have just changed the battery on a Lorus which has been lying in a draw for years. Being rather cack handed, it wasn't easy, but I did it, and saved myself quite a tidy sum in £'s.
Thanks.
I’ve now bought both my old ‘90’s Animal surf watches back to life!
Watched this before changing the battery on my Hemel...very helpful. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial ! Had it all. Audio. Video. Angles/Lighting.
Thanks Mark. Now going to change the battery on my Zeppelin Hindenburg. Looks the same movement. Never know a quartz low battery warning mode displaying the second hand doing four second jumps. Thanks again .
Thanks Mark! I've been waiting on this tutorial for some time. I have about 40 watches and about half are quarts so this tutorial will come in handy in the future, Not sure if I brave enough to tackle the batteries that have screws holding them down yet. Those screws are real small.
Yes, and they pop out like slingshots!
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It's April of 2020, and one of my Coronavirus stay-at-home activities is replacing dead watch batteries. (some watches surfaced when rearranging my sock drawer, (another self-isolating activity!) BTW that Junkers movement is near identical to my '90s Bulova. Thanks for this.
Excellent tutorial. Very thoughtful step by step instruction with tools needed and appropriate notes of caution to avoid mistakes. Thank you.
thank you for this video! almost did as you predicted and tried to unscrew that little lever for the second watch demoed. very glad I didn’t have to
Great and useful for enthusiasts work you have done again, man! Hats off!
I think that rubber gloves, not the knit gloves are the best for this job as well as for lots of other watch handling instances. Kind of making your beloved ball useless so I don't know if you'd agree with the rubber gloves and give the ball up :) Make sure your gloves are the premium and powder-free kinds.
You really had to go an extra step and not use metal tweezers in this educational video.
Also: it would help to visualize the back lid placement before taking it off to make sure back is put back on tight and even after the battery replacement.
Thanks Mark. I hate flying blind. So thumbs up for the walk through.
Very helpful! I have an Invicta divers watch that I was able to change the battery on using your video. Thank you!
Thank you very much for showing how to change the battery. This video is really helpful. 😊
Hallo Mark
Big fan of yours!
I just have changed a lot of batterys myself. Learned from UA-cam and just went for it. The tricky ones are always the watches with pop caseback. In the past years I broke two glasses, one from a Seiko with a pop caseback and one from a real cheap watch. I just couldn't apply even pressure and crackt it. Man big disappointment, bought a press now. Still no fan of pop caseback. Just one little thing you forgot to mention. There are a lot of movements that won't start after changing the battery. I've had that with Seiko and Casio watches. It is not broken, you just have to use your tweezers and put it on the point in the watch movement that is marked for it and then the battery. Then it wil start running again.
Yes, on those you have to short to the terminal on the movement. Like a final step that nobody tells you!
I think I discovered the best way to save money on batteries. Twenty years ago I started taking the batteries out of my watches, only putting them back in when I wanted to know the time. I've not had to by new batteries since 2002.
Thanks for this video, helpful, clear instruction and clear video resolution.
The battery was shorted by the metal tweeter, does that hurt the battery life?
Very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to make and post this video.
Great tutorial!! Thank you. Now i can change the old batteries.
Thanks for a great tutorial on something I need to do right now!!! It makes me realize that I’m NOT going to attempt this! I’m old and on a lot of meds, so my hands are to shakey to even attempt this on one of my favorite watches! I would shake at the wrong time, and that would be the end of my little Bulova diver!!! 🥴🤮😪
Great video, thanks. I'm going to give it a try. I too have lots of old watches with dead batteries!
Thank you for this video! Really sabes me a lot of money on repairs!
Well Done!!!
I Appreciate the Well In-Depth Instructional Video!!!
It Was Very Helpful Indeed...
Kadeers!!!
Thank you a lot for this video. This is very interesting and informative. Keep posting like those amazing videos, this is awesome.
Yay! I finally did it!! Thank you so much for this helpful video !
Just a quick question....and recognizing you already mentioned the "caution" of using metal tweezers...when you handle the new watch battery and hold it with the tweezers on the top and bottom surface.....aren't you completing the "circuit" and can this yield a "short"? Obviously you did this for all 3 watches and nothing bad happened, but just asking as to proper way to go on this? Probably plastic tweezers, right?
You might get it up your bum on accident
I have two watches that have been frozen for a while. My uncle Phil used to be the watch expert in my family. He passed last December. Rest In Peace Phil. We love you.
Expert and pleasant lesson.
Genius! And witty. Thanks a lot!
When not wearing your quartz watch, pull out the stem to shut the watch off and save the battery. This works on many quartz watches.
Great video, Marc...and pretty much illustrated why I largely gave up on quartz, save for one solar-powered number (Casio Edifice, replacing a Citizen Eco-Drive that got clobbered in a bad fall I took over a year ago). If I told you how many *non*-cheap quartz watches I've owned that were essentially butchered by various and sundry jewelers' shops over the last two decades (the biggest three-word lie emblazoned in front of these shops is "WATCHMAKER ON PREMISES"), the sum total of those watches would've much more than paid for that Torneau your folks so nicely gifted you with. 'Course, mechanicals are far more interesting to me anyway.
Very true; thanks for watching!
Thanks for this video Mark, lots of helpful info. I removed the back of a cheap quartz watch yesterday ,
Removed the dead battery and snapped the back on. Unable to get the back off today for the new battery. Can’t see any notch for leverage, a very tight fit. Hope I will succeed with the proper tools.
Thank you very much. It's very useful.
Wow I’m doing my first one tonight cause of you! Thanks so much for this excellent tutorial 🙏
Great video
Maybe you can help: When opening my watch to replace the battery I discovered that a very small metal part (L shaped, that's the part that makes the contact between the battery and the watch) broke.
DO YOU KNOW THIS PART NAME AND WHERE TO BUY THEM? Thanks
Your videos ay so helpful thank you sir from philippines. An average watch collector here
Thaks for your videos
With your help I put a new battery in my Fossil in about 5 minutes ... THANKS!!!
Thanks Mark, this video is very informative!
Thanks very much just changed the battery on my daughters watch :)
Holy crap cooper union. I wanted to go there 😮
Thanks for the video!
Very useful tips specially during the Lockdown. Thanks for sharing
Great. Very helpful. Thanks for posting.
Nice video. Thank you. Could you also provide a how to for battery replacements that require "resetting" after charging the battery? There seem to be some watches that have a RESET button on them. Thanks
Thanks for this very informative video Mark! I have learned a lot and its easy to follow. 👌😊
For pushing batteries down into place, a the eraser on a pencil works pretty well. Better than hard, slippery tweezers or fingers and won't slip into the movement.
Good idea, nice.
This may sound silly but this technique works really well (for me): To pop the back on my Bulova(s) 98E000 and 96E03 (battery replacement "renata 395") I found that a flat carpenter's pencil works well. Helps to be standing up. I put the watch face down on a mouse pad and work the back cover from the bottom up with my thumbs opposing each other on the flat side of the pencil. Need to keep constant pressure on it as you slowly press and slide the pencil. No need to pull apart a watch band either!
By the way, don't work to close to the edge of a table or desk so you don't launch your watch onto the floor.
Legend! So simple!! Thank you 😊
Like I said before. Your videos are very informative!
Thanks a lot ...good job on the video we need more videos like that...appreciate the time and the effort....
Thank you! Watch WORKING 😊
Thank you Marc, I too have a Junkers pilot watch that I just tried replacing the battery in. Your directions were perfect and I stayed away from the copper coil.
However, the lesson I learned is to check battery voltage on new battery before inserting. Only after taking out and checking voltage did I see it only registered .38 volts. Can you recommend a good source for watch batteries?
Thank you for all your great videos and watch store!
Thank you for the excellent tutorial
What happens to the watch if you put a 373 where it should only take 371? I did this and it works fine but will it be damaged later on?
Excellent video
Finally a video that shows the arm. Good clear video. Can you do a Movado . Having trouble with their arms. A little different .
You're the best! Thank you!
Might even have a go myself next time. Thanks Mark 😃
Good luck!
I can remember those old radio shack days. They always wanted your name & address for any purchase. Cant say I miss them.
I was telling my pool supply store the same thing. Seems every time I purchase or have my pool water analyzed they ask me for my phone #. Now I give them 0123456789.
Are you using special tweezers? If those are standard stainless tweezers than you are shorting the battery out, draining it and damaging the battery.
Very useful video. But what do you have to do with watches that require to “shorten the ‘+’ and ‘AC’? Found that in some watches, can’t figure out what that means or what I have to do. Any info would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Thank you for the info it helped me alot I had this 3250 for years it killed alot of bad bad enemy
Hi Mark nice video as always. Very informative. Does quartz movement requires lubrication as well? If yes, how do you check for it? Thanks.
Thanks for the last minute cautions. I just replaced the battery in my late mother-in-law's Lindenwold wrist watch. If we're going to keep a keepsake we should keep it running. Now, can you come to California and put my Sunbeam automatic toaster back together?😇
I forgot to ask where would I be able to buy a case back knife (i think that is what you called it) the little knife you opened the back with? Thanks :)
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Very well done. Thank you!
Love my Junkers as well, thank you for this.
That Junkers with the candy cane hands is really cool. Even a couple of battery replacements can justify the cost of a simple watch tool kit. I resize bracelets for about a half dozen people, the irony is that I don't have to resize them for myself ( most bracelets fit out of the box ), so I just micro adjust down if needed.
Thank you.
this was kind of helpful i just got a job at a watch store where we change batteries lol
Hi Mark, love all your vids. Quick question if I may. I have a Seiko flightmaster and when purchased the battery lasted for at least 5 years. Had it replaced at a jewelry store and the jeweler said there was some leakage from the old battery. The new battery lasted only 7 months. Should I junk it? Send to Seiko to have cleaned, perhaps clean it myself?? Did he just use a cheap battery?
Have it cleaned and serviced by a pro.
Long Island Watch thanks!!
Great video! Have you done a video showing how to change batteries in G-Shocks? I gather it's much harder to open up those indestructible G-Shock cases, than the cases on most watches.
My watch has the same movement as your Junkers. Wasn’t sure what that retention spring was and initially was going to just pry the battery out with force. SO glad I caught your video here Marc, you kept me from killing my watch!
excellent, just like your bracelet resizing video.
It’s important to really important to watch this properly.
Great vid! I detest having batteries changed, so this will be helpful.
Almost perfect if there would put silicone grease around the rubber. Still Excellent. Thanks for this video.
Mark is a professional horologist
-this was very helpful, i subscribed right away.
This video is very helpful. Thank you so much, both my watches now are with changed batteries and working just fine!!
Is it important for the lever to be touching certain parts of the watch? Because I kind of bent it (to replace a battery) and now my watch has stopped ticking. Is there any way to fix it?
Thanks. I never knew the battery arm moved.
Very helpful. Got an SKX to avoid this visit to the dentist...
Macy’s was trying to charge me $50 for a battery replacement 😂 yeah fucken right.
😅😅😅
Great video!
Menjajte baterije, samo nikako ovako kako je prikazano. Katastrofa !!!
You are bad to the bone. I watched 3 other videos and yours was the one that clicked in my head. 👐🙌🙌👏👏🙏🤝💝
Very useful. Thanks.
Great Videos- very easy to follow!
in the junkers one, can I ask you what is the little red piece of thin plastic under the battery, and if it is important? I was replacing battery on my old watch, which also needed a clean and accidentally the little piece of plastic fell out. Do I have to replace it too?