Seniors, is it still possible to buy......?

I had the same problem Wick.

I found 2 solutions.

1. I bought a Citizen Eco-Drive Diver's watch. It runs from solar power, and never needs a battery. It keeps incredible time, and you can leave it in a dark drawer for a week or more and it still keeps time and is unaffected. Cost about £170.

2. I am old fashioned enough to like pocketwatches. However, all the modern ones are quartz and need batteries. So I got onto the online auction site and found you can buy an excellent mechanical pocketwatch in superb condition for well under £100

I picked up a solid silver full hunter and Albert for only £60 and it runs beautifully. Winds once every 7 days.

I know for a fact that you can buy them at the thrift stores. Usually they are returnable if they don't work right, supposedly they have already tested them. I don't know about buying them brand new. I haven't seen any recently. I am thinking that possibly the stores that repair watches might also have some of the old wind up ones for sale. I have been thinking recently that I would like one of those watches that is supposed to wind itself just by the movement of your body. I suppose both the windup and the auto wind will not keep great time, since they never did, but I would like to try one again anyway.

Batteries are cheap to replace, just go to the place you bought it or if they won't do it then go the a watch repair place. All you have to do is take the back off the watch, usually the type of battery is written on the back so that you can have it ready. Believe it or not I usually get those little round watch batteries in a sheet with different sizes on it. Usually cost $1 to $2 . Think of it this way if you wreck the watch trying to replace it whats the loss, you will probably throw if away anyway once it stops working.

PS: If I can change a watch battery I am pretty darn sure you can too, I guess we could find the manual on line which would probably give us instructions (I just thought of that one)

Wick, there was a time I wore a wrist watch 24/7. Now that I'm considerably older and long retired, time just doesn't have the meaning to me it once had. There are enough reminders all around me, both natural and mechanical (that includes digital) so that I don't need the aggravation of something slipping and sliding around on my wrist. I haven't used one in years. I have several clocks hanging on the wall that only require an AA battery that I replace every year when Daylight Savings time begins. I have 3 phones in the house because I'm almost deaf and don't like having a hearing aid stuffed in my ear. I could get by with 2 phones, my place is small but I have three jacks so why not use them? The phones have the time on the display. My kitchen stove has a clock on it. I don't need a clock or watch to tell me when it's time to go to bed or get up or when it's time to head for the bathroom. I also have this little clock down in the lower right corner of my computer screen so I really have all the reminders around the house that I need. When I'm out and about, which isn't much, I have the clock in my car and when I get where I'm going, there's always something to let me know if I'm on time or not. Like the snippy little girl at the counter of the doctors office telling me I'm late. For what? No matter what time I get there, I still have to wait. So I really don't sweat the time or time pieces anymore, the only time that really matters now is when my time is up.

Sounds like a Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking...

I bought a Casio solar watch from an E-bay store because of the short life & cost of the replacement batteries in the Casio women's watches I was wearing for the past 25 years. The battery replacements used to be pretty decent lasting at least 3 years but the past few years they do good to last a year at the most. I am happy with my solar watch and the price was good at that store, someone told me that the solar batteries in those watches aren't forever, they last about 10 years which is satisfactory for me since I paid less than $18 for the watch.

Wick, they used to sell pretty good wind up watches through the Vermont Store catalog. You might click on their website and see if they still offer them. When i was growing up, Timex watches were made in Abilene, TX ((my hometown). I don't know whether Timex still is in existence, but they had the best watches and they would run a long time. They weren't very expensive, either. I personally have a solar powered watch. It doesn't have a battery, but runs off of the sunlight. I had to set it outside for about 24 hours when I first got it, and it's run without problems ever since. I just have to keep it where's some light so many hours out of the day. I had another one just like it (they're made by Citizen), and it lasted 15 years before it finally gave up the ghost. I hope this helps you. Good luck!

I feel the same way. It's too hard for me to replace those tiny batteries and our fingers aren't that nimble or we can't see well enough to do it or figure it out, plus the inconvenience of having to buy more of the right batteries. I have bought batteries twice in the last year that weren't working. I haven't had a watch in several years for the same reason.

I've always liked my old Bulova wind-up wristwatch. I bought it years ago at our corner drug store, but I'm not even sure if they are still around any more.

My hubby has one of those new watches that has all the bells & whistles on it that is sitting in one of the drawers, or somewhere else, in our kitchen. Unfortunately, the alarm goes off for 30 seconds everyday around 9:30. I keep trying to find out where the watch is and just as I think I'm getting close, the alarm stops. I just want a watch that tells me the time and nothing else!

Grrrrrrrrr. Yes and try to have someone replace one for you. My watch is sitting dead. I went to buy a battery at shopco after calling to see if they had them. Oh yes we have watch batteries I was told. So I get there. I am expecting them to replace it. Which they can't do because I didn't purchase the watch there and the dame was giving me some lip about liability issues. She told me to take the watch to a jeweler. I am going to pay a jeweler more than the watch is worth. I don't think so.Not this old girl.I want to see the time I will just check my phone .

I bought a digital watch in JC Penney about a year ago, the one with the lighted display, took it home set it and set the alarm and a year later its still going. I didn't even have to change the time back in March or November when the times changes.

When the battery dies, take it to the watch counter where you bought it, they have a tool that they can replace it with and if they know you bought it there they usually don't charge you.

Go to the store you buoght it from & get the person there to help you change the battery. Do you have a cell phone? You can just push a button on that & the time will show up without your opening up anything. Remind me if I don't get back to you but my husband has always changed the watch batteries & I will ask him, it has to be easy once you know how. Also, if you have a cell phone let me know & I will help you find the way to use it to tell time.