Best place to get batteries for watches?

Legacy_user

Hi,

I normally go to a jewellers to get a battery watch changed and you're looking at around £10 a time.

Just wondered if anyone had any tips as to anywhere else, i.e. markets etc where I could get this done slightly cheaper..

I go to Liverpool Street station in London now and again, or Windsor or Reading if that's of any help..

ditsy

Hiya,
I get mine from the pound shop, lots of different sizes in one pack for a quid, even if you dont use the rest of em, its still good. HTH. xxx

monkeygirl31

Home Bargains

tla19

Try here:

http://www.cooksongold.com/

Type 'batteries' in the search box and it will bring up a list. You'll just need to know which number you need.

They come in boxes of 10 and should cost you roughly 5-7 quid including postage, assuming you need the more common type.

Hope this helps

System

Thanks for the replies, I'd never thought to get the batteries and change them myself. Always taken them to a jewellers to do it, is it quite straight forward?

Thanks again for tips and links..

fatbelly

Poundland



Dead easy to change batteries in anything that has them - at least nothing's stumped me so far.

Lugh_Chronain

Are the ones from Poundland reliable, how long will they last? Mind you, for a pound I guess it's worth it if they don’t last that long, and when you consider that watch batteries can cost as much as £10 elsewhere.

I've never thought of getting watch batteries from the likes of Poundland in the past as I’d thought I'd never use the ones I didn’t need. And yet again, if they're only a pound you could easily give the ones you don't want to someone who might.

juno

I get my daddy to do mine as he likes to feel useful, but on the odd occasion I've done mine it's easy enough if you have a small screwdriver. It's probably best to try on a watch you're not too attached to though.

If you're in Nottingham and buy from £5 watch man in Broadmarsh you get a free spare battery

System

Yep for a £1 you can't go wrong, normally it's approx £10 to get it changed and when you have a couple of watches you are not wearing every day..

I have a storm watch and I can't remember the other make, I'll see if I still have the leaflets for them - if not I'll take the old one out and read the make.

Thanks so much for this...

Begize

Watch (pardon the pun) buying the cheap unbranded batteries from places like Poundland, eBay etc. They are cheap for a reason, they generally won't last anywhere near as long as a branded ones. I bought some off eBay which happened to fit our bathroom scales, a couple of watches and remote locking fob for the girlfriends car.

Unfortunately they lasted no longer than a week in any of the devices and the bathroom scales actually stopped working shortly after I fitted them (probably a coincidence, but you never know).

Shop around and you can pickup decent brands like Maxell, Sony etc cheaply on eBay, especially if you buy in bulk. Check out the sellers and make sure their feedback is good and the items are blister packed / boxed to try and avoid fakes. I recently bought two lots of 10 batteries - one lot Maxell and the other Renata (one of the brands usually pre-installed in new watches) for £8 including delivery.

There's two basic types of watch back to open - screw and clip. The screw ones just screw off, but sometimes you might need a special "wrench" - a few quid off ebay, or for the clip ones, a watch back press to close them up again - a few quid off ebay. You might also need small watchmakers screwdriver and magnifying glass. You can get kits with all these in cheaply on eBay but the quality isn't wonderful, OK if you aren't going to be doing it for a living I suppose!

I now change all our watch batteries at home and although it probably cost about £15 for the tools and maybe £20 in total for the batteries, I've got enough to do another 15 watches at least and already saved more than paying out £10 a time for a jeweller to do it.

Lugh_Chronain

Maybe we could have feed back on how the cheap batteries stand up.

I've managed to remove the battery from my watch with no problems in the past and managed to get the back on with no bother. My watch is an Alibi watch which I've had for some time now. Needs a new strap too.