A watch battery, which popularly referred as button cell, is a small single cell battery typically used to power quartz & non-quartz analog & digital watches. They provide tiny amounts of power continuously for a very long period. Their life largely depends on the functions available in the watches.
Generally, more the functions a watch offers the shorter the battery life will be. However, on an average one can expect some two to four years of life in a watch battery. One can prolong the life of a watch battery by pulling out the crown into position 3, which will make the second hand stops moving when the watch is not worn for a long period.
Moreover, keeping the battery away from high temperatures also prolong it’s life. Most of the time, when a watch battery starts going bad, it makes the time to run slow & eventually, causes the watch stops running altogether. There by requiring a battery change. To do this you can approach the watch dealer from which you purchased the watch or you may try it on your own. The basic procedure of changing the battery is as follows.
1.Turn the watch over, taking care to prevent scratching the crystal of the watch.
2.Carefully remove the back cover & then the gasket.
3.Locate the battery & remove it carefully.
4.Identify the battery with it’s number & then fix an identical fresh replacement battery.
But here it can be mentioned that most of the high end men watches like Rolex watches (incidentally Rolex invented the modern automatic watches back in the 1930s) & the chic Seksy watches for the fashion conscious women or the clothing accessory watches like Flud watches are mostly automatic watches powered by self-winding mechanism. Even the contemporary day-to-day use watches for men are also mostly automatic watches.
However, this should not be construed to mean that battery powered watches have become obsolete. They are still largely popular & made by almost all the watch manufacturers & are available with a large variety of optional functions.
The popularity of battery-powered ultra luxury Hublot watches is an indication in this regard. Although this type of Hublot watches price is extremely prohibitive but still they manage to sell in good numbers. Similarly at the other end of the spectrum, affordable & cost effective battery powered watches offered by Citizen Watches India are also immensely popular among the people.
Moreover most of the special capabilities watches like KHS Tactical watches use battery as one of their power source along with other sources such as kinetic power, light or solar power etc. To sum up it can be said that, the battery-powered watches enjoy some definite advantages such as easy availability, affordability, simple maintenance etc, which are making them ever popular among the people.
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