Looks good - I’m surprised they couldn’t source an everyday capacitor, though.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been using my oldest Rado:
https://s13.postimg.org/ass8otow7/IMG_1786.jpg
I had the battery replaced on August 21st so it should last the normal 3 years. I don’t use half the functions on it - stopwatch, dual time, alarm, timer etc. but it is my favourite watch.
Here’s my Breitling. I have quite a few watches.
Wearing a Citizen eco drive 200m diver at the moment.
Jeeze!..another thread about Guys and Their gadgets…first it was cars,then expensive mobile phones,then big TVs,now fancy time pieces…wharra a lot o’ posers & show-offs You all are 
:-p
Well I reckon you girls should start a thread “Girls & Their Toys”…
But watches are cool; I keep meaning to wear my Tissot more but I take it off, forget it for a couple of days then it stops.
I could source a capacitor but it might not be just that., or Citizen main UK centre couldn’t be bothered. It works ok with light on it ie daylight or room light.
None of these watches look like they are used, no scratches on the face or wear marks. What do you do with them? Just take them out for photos?
http://www.over50sforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4299&d=1508582940
I have had my CWC G10 watches for 30 years and changed the batteries about 4 times…an easy job as they have a screw off battery hatch.
Yes, so annoying; I don’t think mine is quite that old but the replacement batteries have cost more than the watch did in the first place. My watch has two batteries one for the hands and one for the digital display.
Hi
I have a collection of very expensive watches.
They look very good.
All knock offs from SE Asia street markets.:-p
Well they’re all Swiss (with the exception of the Apple Watch) with sapphire glass and in the case of the Rados scratchproof ceramic cases.
Ha ha… My youngest son bought all his siblings a Rolex each from Vietnam.
Update better late than never
This watch is now 18 years old a citizen ECo watch and solar powered. Hasn’t been working or battery gone flat. So instead of scrapping did some further investigation even though some years ago it went back to a shop for checking.
Today or should I say this afternoon I managed to get the back off to have a look and decided maybe I can replace the battery. Actually read up on Citizens web site and they claim after 20 years the battery looses aboutg 20% of the energy storage .
the good news is I managed to remove and put back the existing battery so now will buy a replacement if this exiksting one stops again
I have a Giorgio Armani watch [ a gift nearly 20 years ago] and I get sick of jewellers saying they can’t replace the battery it needs to be sent away at a cost of £40. I’ve found a shop here with a great guy who does repairs etc and he replaced it for £7. Showed me the works [ Japanese ] says it doesn’t need cleaning so he will get all my business from now on.
This is my present watch. Nothing fancy.
Cost £16. When the battery runs out I’ll just get a new watch - it isn’t worth hassle to find a jeweler.
Some years ago I was given a kinetic watch where the driving power is obtained by a weighted rotor that drives the internal miniscule generator. Providing it’s worn daily or given the occasional shake, it works continuously and is very accurate. The power is stored in a capacitor so no battery to become tired 
Kinetic Movement: How Does A Kinetic Watch Work? (watchfortomorrow.com)
I bought my expensive Junghans radio-controlled watch many years ago.
When the battery first needed changing I took it to the nearest Timpsons high street shop, but when I got it back I realised that they’d made a mess of it as some of the functions wouldn’t work. Naturally, I complained to their head office (I wasn’t going back to the incompetent idiot in the local store) and they apologised profusely. They advised me to send it to the Junghans repair centre in this country - actually in Scotland - and they would pay for repair or replacement of the movement.
I’m glad to say that it has worked perfectly since.
I have also learnt my lesson and now change the battery myself when needed. The back needs to be prised off, but I manage that easily enough.
well battery ordered should be here tomorrow. It is that tiny panasonic battery in the top photo I am going to replace
Had a thought the tweezers are metal to hold the new battery with as i don’t have plastic ones. “Bazza brainwave coming up” . why not wrap the tweezer ends in insulatng tape? that should prevent and accidental contact across the battery. Now double wrapped since this photo
I very nearly F*ck up with the order. What I didn’t see was the one I origikally olrdered was for single use . Just managed to stop Amazon in time. Reordered the same battery but the rechargable version. SO now the built in solar panel should keep the watch going.
Thinking on it I bet the shop when i took it back to be looked at, they only replaced with a single use one. Why produce a battery that is only powered charged up by daylight once???
update
Well for a wrist watch that the jewellers said can’t be repaired I have put in the new battery 15 minutes ago and it is working ok. As for the solar power keeping it charged up only time (no pun intended) will tell.
So the Jewellers were lying out their back teeth a couple of years ago, bastards.
As far as I can find out it was made in 1998
