How To Change A Watch Battery - Watch and Learn #43 By Long Island Watch

Hi this is mark from Long Island watch calm and welcome to another episode of watch and learn. Today. We're going to be discussing how to replace the batteries in some of those dead. Quartz watches that you have lying around your watch box. I know, you've got them, I've got them, and the impetus for this was kind of the risk check for today. Scrooge Chuck watch.

It is a quart, see it's working, yes, but it got me to thinking that have a bunch of other TGV, squally, sorry automatic, miss checks over. I got me to think it had a bunch of other quartz driven, watches I've accumulated over the past few decades that definitely needed the batteries were placed. I did some a while ago for myself and then so. Well, man, I've got another three or four that really need to be replaced. So I said, let's do a watch horn on it, and I've kind of hesitated on this in the past number one, because there's so many movements out there and so many ways that batteries are held in, so I picked.

Three hopefully gives you a little overview of. You know kind of what to expect, but everybody's there everybody's are different I, don't think any of these have screw clamps for the batteries. So if you take apart your watch, it's got a screw clamp. You know, then you got to do some unscrewing and screwing that together- and you have to you know- be careful. That's really.

If you're going to attempt this, which I'm sure a lot of you already do, I mean if you can regulate a watch. You can do this, but if you're going to attempt this, you just need to take your time, be careful and just have the tools at your disposal that you need the easiest thing to do when you know when changing your battery is to bump into something not supposed to and render the watch useless. So how do you know you watch the dead battery? Well, if you're, not a watchmaker, you unfortunately probably have to take it apart, change the battery and see if it fires back up again a lot of times. Watchmakers can put it on a little plate, and it runs a little current through it, and it can determine whether the movement is alive or not. I think that these watches I have today, for you are just dead because they've been sitting in the drawer for a while, and it's time for them to be replaced.

So again, this is by no means every different watch out there to replace a battery. Not at all. There are many types. You know. Google and YouTube are certainly your friend, obviously I'm doing this video, but go to Google and just check out.

Maybe someone's done your movement before, and now you can get some tips and tricks, but here is my rendition of how to change batteries and a couple different watches, so nothing, lets uh, let's check it out. I pulled three watches out of my personal collection that are in dire need of a battery change. I've got in old, torn Oh, dress, watch I, have a fossil watch and I have a Yonkers pilot's watch. Furthermore, I'm gonna, hopefully do each one of them, and you know I say hopefully, because I want to show you different technologies or different ways that batteries are installed and removed, and I really don't know what these watches hold until I dig into them. So what we're going to do is we'll start on the right, and we'll work our way over, and we'll check each one out.

So the first thing we see about this fossil watch is that it's on this deploying clasp, so I just want to knock the clasp out. Take it off the edge there. So it's easier for me to work on the watch and just like you saw in the other videos, I'm going to stick a tool into one of the holes for the spring, pin tilt it and the whole clasp opens and then looking at the case back well, it's not screwed down. It's probably some kind of pop back and I. Think I just saw something right there over here.

There's a little raise a little lip in the lid, and I'll be able to fit a case back knife under there and pry it open, and this was in one of my other watch and learns and I will try to link to it while I do this, so we're just going to put the edge of the knife up under the case. You may want to coat the watch with tape or something, so you don't damage it, but I'm really not too worried. These watches are fairly old and fairly beat-up. So the back comes off you'll notice. With the back.

Take a look. Here's the gasket! There's black ring it's its still in there. I never take this watch anywhere near the water, so I'm not worried about replacing it when I'm done and there's a notch in the cover. You see that notch right there that notch goes over the winding stem of the watch and when you put it back on so make sure you check out how it's aligned, when you take it off, so you put it back in the same exact manner. So, let's check out what we're looking at here.

You see the movement, and I'll, let it focus in, and now we can see a battery. It looks like it was an energizer battery, so the battery is a 377 376, so either one will work, so I'll go over and check out what I've got, and I'll get a replacement for it. You know a lot of time. Batteries have, you know very different numbers on them all the time you might see an SR number on it, and it's just different ways to denote them. Your friend here is going to be Google just start googling different battery types and numbers, and it'll show you what the equivalent replacements are and a lot of times the box will actually have.

The package will actually have the equivalent replacement. So the thing about changing batteries is you just want to be very careful. You know in this instance, I don't see the exposed coil anywhere, but usually they'll, be like a red coil, and that's that's like to keep out zone. You don't want to touch that area. So here I don't see anything, so he's going to figure out how the battery is held in, and then we will remove it.

So here, I can see. I've got this little arm right here and if I pull that back I'm thinking the battery so just spring out. So let's check that out and see what happens, so I'm going to put my tool right up against it and just pull it back a little, and you can see that it kind of just I think it's out. Actually it is out it's up. I just can't get the death perception that I need just picking it up and there you go, so I'm gonna, remove the battery, put it on the side and get my replacement.

So here is my replacement. It's made by a different manufacturer. It doesn't matter, it is battery number 377. Now we also see it comes with an SR, 626 SW and that's just a different number. It tells you more about the battery the vi, meaning it's six millimeters in diameter and the 26 I believe that means it's two point: six millimeters thick, that I'm, pretty sure! That's what that means.

SW is slow drain. I, don't really recall with the SR stands for, but you want to match up the batteries 100% to what you have if you're not sure. Now that now you've got to watch open, you can see who makes the move in here. Because he's Seiko, Epson, Japan I can get the number of the movement. I can go to the manufacturers website and see what battery it's supposed to take, but you always want to replace it with the same battery.

Unless you know for sure that a high drain will work in a slow drain, a slow drain will work in a high drain. Usually, if you're having a chronograph or an alarm, it might be a little different, so we're going to pop this open and install it. So there's the battery ready to go back. This is the new battery ready to go back into the watch, and I'll be honest with you. I usually do this with my hands using a metal tool poking around, probably not the best idea.

I mean you could use plastic tweezers, but they're, not too precise I'll try to do it! This way, so what you're going to do in this instance is kind of slip it under this other arm. First see this arm right here, and then we're going to push it down while pulling back this arm, and it'll go under, and it'll clip into place. So I know it sounds complicated. It's really not once you have it in front of you. It's all fairly simple, I'm gonna, just push it down a bit: okay, I'm gonna! Let see that like see, gloves huh you better off, not doing it with gloves on.

Do it with finger cut or something we're gonna. Just pull this back. I'm gonna slip this down and there it is it's over we'll flip it. This doesn't have a second saying: does it, so it is 7:25 according to this, but let it tick for a minute. If it doesn't have a second hand, you can probably put it to your ear and hear it.

It should take every second every five seconds, every seven seconds. However, the movement is set up to tick, but while we wait for it to hopefully advance in time, I will zoom out a bit and let's talk about putting the back of the watch back on. So here is the back of the watch. Now again, we want to be careful. We want to find where that notch is here.

It is so that not needs to go over the stem the winding stem, so we're going to try to line it up as good as we can make sure the gasket is still there which it is. We would maybe clean the watch if it's dirty. This one doesn't happen to be very dirty before we do any of this to make sure that the surface is seat, probably much more important in a dive watch, and I'm gonna snap, these two together, it didn't snap. Yet that was just it finding its home I. You may need a press to put it back together.

This watch I, don't think I. Do there. We go it's snap right, nope, see that look around see over here. By my thumb, it's still not on it's. It's kind of just sneaking up in different areas, I'll see if I can press this, and now I think it's in there I think it is.

Let's say: let's just do a little dance around, it looks like it might be raised a bit, but I don't think it is I, think it's just a visual trick of the eyes flip it over and look at that. It's now seven, twenty-seven, so I've been drowning for two minutes here, and then we'll put the little pin back, and we are ready to go with a battery in our new watch, and you know it didn't, cost us really any anything, much no specialized tools, batteries you can get online they're extremely cheap. The days of going to RadioS hack and spending five dollars on a button battery are over. So I'll put this one back together, and we'll move on to the next one, so buttoned up, and it's ready to go through another day of wear. This watch actually dates back to 1993.

The first watch that my girlfriend was Emma Kane. My wife ever gave me next up will be an euchre's pilot's watch. This was my father-in-law's watch. They had gifted him we'd gifted him many years ago, and the battery is dead. So it's time for replacement.

We can see here that the back is a screw down back, so if it's not a pop pack, so we're gonna we're going to attack it. The first we need to do like I said before it's just most so much easier if you just open up the bracelet, so it's not flopping around yeah, so I'm going to just remember where the pin is a second from the end, put a tool and press it pull it out and now just the whole thing opens its much easier to work on. So it's a screw down case back again. I have videos out there on how to remove it. I was able to loosen it with this to point cheap case back wrench and once it's loosened, then the ball takes over and does the job easily, so I'm gonna, unscrew it, and we're gonna, just knock it over and the back falls off, and then we'll look at the back we'll find the gasket the gaskets there.

Everything looks good now we look at the movement, so here we have, it is a 371 battery, but, more importantly, it's held on with different technology, and the movement we could see is a little different. So now this right here, this red area, this is like danger zone. You don't want to touch it. You don't want to go near it. It's very fragile.

You can break it quite easily, so you really don't even want to touch it so a lot of times when people are working on these. That's what they'll do they'll touch that, and they'll break a wire and then can I go to the watchmaker to be repaired. So for this movement, what I'm going to do is see this lever. This is where the danger zone is and push this lever over. The battery is gonna spring out, but if my tweezer slips I'm going to bump right into this coil and cut a wire, so you just need to be careful push this back.

The battery pops out we take out old number 371, we get new number 371 you can see, replaces all SR 9, 20, W and SR 920 s W so replaces both of those types of batteries. Again, you just want to make sure that it's the right battery for your application. This one does both applications 9 millimeters in diameter and about 2 millimeters thick. So let's get it out of there. So here's the new battery, we're gonna, put it in I, just flip the watch around just so you could see what I'm doing better the battery is gonna slip under this little lip here on the far side, we're going to push it down.

I'm gonna push out my finger at the same time, I'm gonna, just nudge, this little lever over a little, and I'll say a lot of times with people. That's already done. What other people do is I see this screw, and they start unscrewing it. Don't you don't want to do that? You don't need to, even though the lever slides under there, it's not necessary. So let's just flip it over and do our sanity check it's ticking.

So it's working, and then we're going to reverse the process. Again. I'm gonna look at the outside here: it's not very dirty. If it was, I'd scrub it maybe, but then you have to be careful getting debris in the movement. That's a whole other thing yeah! You don't want dirt in your watches, but again not a diving watch, so I'm not too concerned about water resistance, and it's not in often where'er, so it doesn't get too dirty.

And now it's just really a matter of finding how it goes on. I find it the ball. It's best for this just a little of light pressure and you kind of just spin, and eventually it finds the Raceway, and it finds a thread. And now it's on I am NOT going to use the case back to litany, go all the way. I'm just going to push firmly and rotate, and that is surely more than enough.

All that remains is for me to put the deployment pin back in which I have to find there. It is, and we put the bracelet back together, and we're done there. You got lips to fight another day, great watch, big date, candy cane hands. Awesome again. This was my father-in-law as we gave it to him many years ago and then after he passed, it was given back to me, which I thought was really cool, so now happy that I'll be able to wear this one again as well.

Last up I know I've actually never replaced his battery myself. It's been sitting in a drawer for a while. This was given to me by my parents in 97. It was for a birthday, but it was also really a more of a graduation gift from college. I was graduating from the corporate Union, and they got me this watch.

It's a Tourney watched, beautiful white dial, super thin small I, don't know what it is: thirty, four millimeter very vintage I'm, pretty sure this is a different strap, and then it came on I'm, not actually totally sure, but again, I haven't worn in a long time. So, let's attack this one I'm, definitely going to take the strap off because I don't know where the case back comes off. It might be hidden under the lugs. So I took this drop off and again now it's been covered in other videos and actually, as I was taking, the strap off. I finally did see, there's a little nib right there at the case back, and I'm going to try to get my knife in there and pry it open, we'll see if we're successful there it goes got it surprise.

Look at that wearing expecting that, were you so the way this works is the movement actually comes out of the case they so here is I, really just peeled off the crystals. What I did the whole thing comes apart? The movement is in the case back, and then we got to remove the watch and the movement from the case back, and then we can get to the battery there you go. It is a 373, so we're gonna. Now we need to put this down gently, obviously, because hands and stuff how we need to be careful where we put this down to make sure that we don't muck up the hands, so now I've placed it in a movement holder, as you can see, so it doesn't so don't damage anything and now, let's zoom in on it. So we see here it's another one of those.

It's a side clip. So all we have to do is wedge up the battery, and we'll put a new one in I'm, going to just sneak up over here underneath and actually just try to grab it and pivot. It upset, flew out I, don't care I, don't need it. So here's another 373 I'm going to slip it in basically backwards to the way it came out. I'm going to slide it on over to that clip on the side, and then it's really just a press with your hand.

I don't want to press too hard since I'm pressing on a dial. You know this isn't a firm watch case. There we go I, think that's in I will remove it from the movement holder. I'll put it back in the case again, there are no seconds here. So we need to you, know, monitor it and see how it goes, but some won't we set the time.

So it's something easy that we can see we'll go right to dead noon. There we go, and we'll set it back into the case. Just like the way we found it originally make sure it's all in there and of course we want to be very mindful of dust and everything else, and you know. Luckily, this dial is white. So if I'm getting dust in it, I'm never really going to notice.

But you know, obviously you want to be mindful of everything and then the case just kind of goes together in the same way that we took it apart. So going to pick it up and try to line everything up with my eyeballs, the case back, which happens to be most of the case, the stem, and we can get everything lined up here, and then I'll be able to this give me a definite push together. There goes the crown is in, and it looks like it's already moved a little to 12:01, we'll test it out. Oh, there's something I mentioned on the other ones after you put it back together, guys test it out, you know, pull the crown make sure it pulls out, make sure it pushes in make sure you get still spin it freely. If you can't spin it freely, you might have put something back on it wrong, and you are precluding the stem from spinning.

So that's that one, let's put the strap back on it the same way we took it off there. We go again ready to see another day, so this has been mark from Long Island watch comm, showing you how to change the batteries in a couple of different watches, breathing new life into them. So we can wear them again. Please, like this video, if you enjoyed it, please subscribe to channel if you have not done so yet, if you have any questions or comments, please put them down below. Thank you for watching bye, bye,.

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