Watch Battery Replacement - When the Best Time to Replace Your Battery

 

Your quartz watch may stop working entirely, the second hand may start to skip, digital displays or nightlights may stop working, or it may simply stop keeping time. These could indicate that you should your watch battery replacement. Read this guide carefully to know more.

Can I Swap out my Watch's Battery?

Determining the movement of your wristwatch will be the first step. You can look at our guide to the most popular watch movements here. However, take a look at the information provided by the manufacturer and the packaging for your unit before consulting that guide. The type of watch movement that the timepiece you are holding should already be disclosed. Remove the case back as a last resort to check if there is a small battery inside.

Try these steps if you are doing this at home:

●     Take the watch off of your wrists and the storage unit.

●     If you don't have a wristwatch servicing kit, pick up a little knife.

●     Place the sharp end of the knife gently against the watch back's case base.

●     Gently remove the case to reveal the watch's movement and engine.

●     Seek out the tiny battery. It won't take long for you to locate it.

●     When a watch has screws, they are typically tiny ones that can be taken out with the little knife tip. Better still if you have a small screwdriver.

●     Sometimes all you need to do is tighten the watch battery's slot. The battery may have shifted in its slot due to a manufacturing error (which doesn't occur at Nordgreen, though, because of our strict quality control procedures) or a bump during use.

The following are the reasons why it is time to replace the watch battery:

To keep your watch's warranty intact.

As you may have discovered from reading the Manufacturer's Replacement Battery Manual, in order to avoid voiding your warranty, most warranties call for you to send your watch to an authorized dealer or repair facility. We are the authorized repair facility for you 

To safeguard your watch's functionality. 

Opening the watch's back will always break the seal and gasket, rendering it no longer airtight, if your watch is meant to be water resistant or water proof. If not done correctly, your watch will start to leak, get wet, and develop rust inside.

Differentiating the type of battery can be done with symbols, odd markings, numbers, words, or even nothing at all.

It becomes more difficult since some batteries have similar looks. While some are the same width, they differ in depth. There are high voltage and low voltage items. It can be difficult to determine the proper size and type of battery.

Final Words:

Maintaining the integrity of your watch and making sure it keeps accurate time and performs as intended require a careful and knowledgeable approach to watch battery replacement.

Changing the battery in your watch is a task that needs to be done carefully and precisely. The knowledge required for this procedure includes knowing what kind of movement the watch has, figuring out whether the battery can be changed, and being aware of any possible drawbacks, like the warranty being voided or the water resistance of the watch being compromised.