Opened up a quartz, but its not a bad battery?

[grandeson]

Hey all, this site has taken up all my free time the last 2 weeks, and now to make it worse I'm taking watches apart. Well not exactly. I went to change a battery on a non expensive Fossil watch that my brother gave me. I put in a new battery, but no movement, tried the new battery in another watch and the battery is fine. So, what can it be? The watch isn;t abused, is there anything I can look at to see if I can fix it? Can I replace the quartz movement? I know its not expensive, but I tend to be a little sentimental, and I never even wear the watch, but I'd like to see if I can get it working. Any info would be great, Thanks All, Grandeson.
PS, not impressed with quartz at all, looks like it's worth 50 cents!! Think I may have to venture into automatics. BE well all, and help me if you can.

[Janne]

Check if you have the correct battery. Check that you put it in the correct side up.

[mjbernier]

How old is the watch? Fossil watches have an 11-year warranty (unless it was bought at one of their ...... stores, in which case they have only a 1-year warranty). It might be easier to send it to them for repair than to fix it yourself. Since it was a gift, I'd at least explore that option to see what they can do for you.

Don't poo-poo all quartz watches - yes, some are pretty chintzy because they're trying to cater to current fashions (which at times seem all over the map), but there are many high-quality quartz models out there, even from Fossil (there are many here who hold their Zodiac models in very high regard).

Mike

[grandeson]

Yeah, my brother who gave me the watch isnt the one to save a receipt for it. And I'm sure the style hasnt been out for 11 years, never mind 4 years, but I've heard that Fossil Customer service is horrible, but maybe I'll send it and give it a try. Who knows, but just ordered another quartz, Seiko SNA225, actually have that same movement in another Seiko and am happy with it. But next will be an automatic. Not a seiko 5 $200 auto, but a nice nice one, we'll see though.

[Kaeu]

but I've heard that Fossil Customer service is horrible,

WRONG...they have excellent service.
fossil watches are actually really good ofor the movement they have.

I have several fossil's around 7 or 8....some dating back to 1995.


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are you sure you didn't put the wrong battery in?

[grandeson]

OK, sent it back to Fossil to test there excellent service. We'll see.