Piaget battery
Discussion
The watch was purchased about 3 years ago, battery gone, fair enough.
Face has a scratch or two, also the glass.
£800.00 to fit new battery and to tidy up with a new glass, total over 2k.
Flipping eck, its not the money, its the smile whilst I put my hand in your back pocket and screw you.
To top it all off, won't get it back till April or after.
Means over 8 months since we sent it over.
Face has a scratch or two, also the glass.
£800.00 to fit new battery and to tidy up with a new glass, total over 2k.
Flipping eck, its not the money, its the smile whilst I put my hand in your back pocket and screw you.
To top it all off, won't get it back till April or after.
Means over 8 months since we sent it over.
Hoofy said:
The FACE has a scratch or two? How did you manage that?
If the crystal had scratches, I'd just leave them. Replacement battery in Maplins: £3.
Not as easy as that.If the crystal had scratches, I'd just leave them. Replacement battery in Maplins: £3.
Needs to be sealed correctly, gasket. Apparently the yuse the same ones as Cartier.
Watch is not mine, I bought it for the wife
Seriously, they saw you coming and got the lube ready warmed for you.
Pressure testing and gaskets = an absolute crock of s
t. There is no mystery magic in watches, it's a press fit with (at most) a bit of rubber or paper. The bloke with a little stall in Debenhams is 'qualified' to replace the battery in my Raymond Weil watch, apparently, at a cost of £30 compared to the £120 they wanted at RW. I watched him do it, he has zero different tools to the place that'll do it in the high street, who would have charged me £12.
It's a con, pure and simple.
Just to add, the battery in my Chrono Accurist went after about 10 years of heavy use, I changed that myself using a stanley blade to lift the back and thumb pressure to 'reseal' it with a battery that came in a sheet of 30 from Poundland. I go swimming in it, it doesn't leak. At all.
Pressure testing and gaskets = an absolute crock of s
t. There is no mystery magic in watches, it's a press fit with (at most) a bit of rubber or paper. The bloke with a little stall in Debenhams is 'qualified' to replace the battery in my Raymond Weil watch, apparently, at a cost of £30 compared to the £120 they wanted at RW. I watched him do it, he has zero different tools to the place that'll do it in the high street, who would have charged me £12.It's a con, pure and simple.
Just to add, the battery in my Chrono Accurist went after about 10 years of heavy use, I changed that myself using a stanley blade to lift the back and thumb pressure to 'reseal' it with a battery that came in a sheet of 30 from Poundland. I go swimming in it, it doesn't leak. At all.
Ash 996 GT2 said:
Hoofy said:
The FACE has a scratch or two? How did you manage that?
If the crystal had scratches, I'd just leave them. Replacement battery in Maplins: £3.
Not as easy as that.If the crystal had scratches, I'd just leave them. Replacement battery in Maplins: £3.
Needs to be sealed correctly, gasket.
Ash, can you reject Piaget's quote and have the watch returned? I'd be inclined to post on a Piaget owner's forum to see if the prices are realistic (for Piaget) and whether there are any independents that can do similar work
http://piaget.watchprosite.com/
Hoofy said:
The FACE has a scratch or two? How did you manage that?
polish the case and reapply the rhodium plating (if white gold)replace the sapphire crystal
replace the dial
overhaul the movement
fit a new battery
if the watch really needs to have all this work carried out I wouldn't be surprised for the price quoted
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