All watches working again

We are visiting Clare’s mom in a small city in Ohio where there is [still!] a clock-and-watch repair shop. On a quest to get rid of things that are neither beautiful nor useful — see quote at brainyquote.com or jump down to quote† — I recently gathered up my non-working watches. I have brought them this trip to restore them to working order or determine that their useful life is over. For $20 I have three more watches that work again. And yes, despite my geekiness and my general embrace of most things “tech,” I still prefer analog watches. Two other analog timepieces were my dad’s, and a pocket watch that was a dad-gift from my older daughter when she got married.

I have thought about getting the special tool to remove the backs of watches, but then I might develop an inventory of batteries I might never use. For now I am content in having a go-to shop and getting the pieces serviced as needed … when we travel to Fremont.

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† “Have nothing in your house that you do not
   know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” —William Morris
   And ha! I still remember stuff from my web design days!

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Looking back
  1 year ago: “Granddaughter”
 2 years ago: “Clare & grandson”
 3 years ago: “Cross-country by bedtime!”
 4 years ago: “Monarch on a packing day [Filler]”
 5 years ago: “Ubiquitous”
 6 years ago: “Skipper”
 7 years ago: “An afternoon at a winery”
 8 years ago: “Homemade necklace rack”
 9 years ago: “Don’t touch your screen!!!”
10 years ago: “A brisk day on the lake, but a great row!”
11 years ago: “October surprise”

[Mags]

Very nice! I am so tired of having to replace batteries in watches. My self-winding watch my dad gave me years ago can't be fixed and Timex wind up watches don't seem to be what they were in the 70s... "They take a licking and keep on ticking..." no more.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Our refrigerator is 3½ years old and an LED light bulb failed for the third time this week. (This time it was the bulb in the freezer compartment.) So much for long-lived LED bulbs, huh? My house-flipping BIL and I commiserated about the decline in consumer product quality, even as technology and materials science advance. He said, “I think the real brand LEDs last longer than the no brands. It's like with CDs. When they told us they would last forever and never skip they had no idea how cheaply they would end up being made.” Exactly.

[Mags]

@rhoing Yeah... just follow the money. I think it's going to the battery and light bulb companies. I probably go through two 9-volt batteries a week for my tens unit and they ain't cheap either.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam I should post this [eventually], but I rediscovered a gift from several years ago: a rechargeable battery system (for AA and AAA sizes). I have AAAs in the TV and Roku remotes and I plan to put the AAs in *all* the battery-operated clocks. So far, so good. I'm tired of buying — and throwing away — alkaline batteries.

[Mags]

@rhoing LOL! When you can recharge watch and 9-volt batteries, let me know. =) I have one of the AA recharge things, but you still have to replace the rechargeable batteries after a time and the charge doesn't last long. Oiy!

[Danette Thompson]

$20! I spent considerably more rehabbing my favorite analog watch that I accidentally took swimming.

[GaryW]

Great photo. I'm amazed that the second hand on the watches are very close to the same position. You are fortunate to have found a watch repair shop. I don't think we have one nearby!