Citizen Aqualand Batteries

scubagit

Hi Folks,
Just looking to pick some brains. I need a battery for a Citizen Aqualand and was wondering if anyone has had one fitted and by who?
I asked in H Samuel in Liffey Valley and they want €58 to send it to England, yet Coby Jewellers in Clondalkin will fit one for €8.
H Samuel also said that they need to be pressure tested and the guy in clondalkin said that as long as the O ring was fine, then I had nothing to worry about. Also, is it possible to change the setting from imperial to metric?
All help welcome.

xzodia

try ringing some of the dive shops as they might be able to presure test it for you if you get the guy in clondalkin to replace the battery

Woodenhead

calcul internatinal
Shannon Co. Clare
061 472722

These are the actual Citizen Service Center for Ireland. I have used them and found them excellent. The service costs will include postage. Do not give the watch in anywhere else if you wish to dive with it. Just phone them and they will explain how to get the watch to them. Let us know how much they charge you

scubagit

Woodenhead wrote:

calcul internatinal
Shannon Co. Clare
061 472722

These are the actual Citizen Service Center for Ireland. I have used them and found them excellent. The service costs will include postage. Do not give the watch in anywhere else if you wish to dive with it. Just phone them and they will explain how to get the watch to them. Let us know how much they charge you

Cheers Woodenhead,
Gave them a call, they are charging €30 for the battery and test and will let me know how much for the software change.

Trampoline

scubagit wrote: »

Cheers Woodenhead,
Gave them a call, they are charging €30 for the battery and test and will let me know how much for the software change.

Unfortunately it is not possible to change your watch from imperial to metric - it is not a software issue, Citizen actually uses different movements for their imperial and metric watches.

locum-motion

Check out this thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055282103

Benny-c

I just dealt with this company & the service was top class. I left in the watch yesterday at 4pm & collected it at 11am today-new battery & pressure tested to 5.1bar (checked the dive log!) .

MrTrebus

Benny-c wrote: »

I just dealt with this company & the service was top class. I left in the watch yesterday at 4pm & collected it at 11am today-new battery & pressure tested to 5.1bar (checked the dive log!) .

are you talking about the company in Shannon ??


heres my post from the other aqualand thread .
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just as a follow up, Celtic tiger how are ya in 2011 !!!

That crowd in Shannon want (and are getting) €72 PLUS VAT to replace the battery, reseal and pressure test (cause it costs more to test it to a deeper pressure apparently :eek::eek: )

Oh and its taken 4 weeks to get it done too, and thats after numurous calls chasing it !!

and to add insult to injury, I enquired about a replacement strap and they have gone ahead and sent one back to the jewellers where I left the watch in and told them it costs €40


Now is it just me or are they taking the piss !!!!

Benny-c

MrTrebus wrote: »

are you talking about the company in Shannon ??


heres my post from the other aqualand thread .
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just as a follow up, Celtic tiger how are ya in 2011 !!!

That crowd in Shannon want (and are getting) €72 PLUS VAT to replace the battery, reseal and pressure test (cause it costs more to test it to a deeper pressure apparently :eek::eek: )

Oh and its taken 4 weeks to get it done too, and thats after numurous calls chasing it !!

and to add insult to injury, I enquired about a replacement strap and they have gone ahead and sent one back to the jewellers where I left the watch in and told them it costs €40


Now is it just me or are they taking the piss !!!!

If I remember correctly I was charged €40ish & there was no BS about pressure testing-I picked up a replacement strap on ebay for €10 recently. You are right-time to shoot the Celtic tiger!!

locum-motion

Benny-c wrote: »

If I remember correctly I was charged €40ish & there was no BS about pressure testing-I picked up a replacement strap on ebay for €10 recently. You are right-time to shoot the Celtic tiger!!

My €40 included pressure testing.

MrTrebus

locum-motion wrote: »

My €40 included pressure testing.

Benny-c wrote: »

If I remember correctly I was charged €40ish & there was no BS about pressure testing-I picked up a replacement strap on ebay for €10 recently. You are right-time to shoot the Celtic tiger!!

when did you get yours done ?
did you go directly to the company involved or was it via a jewellers ???


@Benny-c,
any idea who you got your strapfrom on ebay, most of the american ones on ebay I can find at the mo are charging about €25 for the strap and bout the same for shipping :eek::eek:


incidentally, I collected my watch today and the lady in the shop never mentioned the extra €37.12.
She took one look at the receipt and saw I had already paid €50 upfront and that was it
So it actually cost me €50 in total and NOT the €72 plus VAT they said it would last night.

starting to wonder if there was a scam on so, didnt see ANY extra charges marked on any of the paperwork she had with the watch !!!

locum-motion

MrTrebus wrote: »

when did you get yours done ?
did you go directly to the company involved or was it via a jewellers ???

2009 was the last time.
Yeah, just send it straight to Calcul in Shannon in future, don't mess about with a middleman.

locum-motion

MrTrebus wrote: »

incidentally, I collected my watch today and the lady in the shop never mentioned the extra €37.12.
She took one look at the receipt and saw I had already paid €50 upfront and that was it
So it actually cost me €50 in total and NOT the €72 plus VAT they said it would last night.

So effectively, you came on here bad mouthing Calcul as being rip off merchants when actually you got your quote from a middleman, not from Calcul, and in the end they didn't even charge that much anyway.

MrTrebus

locum-motion wrote: »

So effectively, you came on here bad mouthing Calcul as being rip off merchants when actually you got your quote from a middleman, not from Calcul, and in the end they didn't even charge that much anyway.

It was the jewelers who told me it was Calcul that were quoting that price because they werent allowed open the watch
and if you actually check the date I posted my first post about this, it was BEFORE I collected the watch and AFTER I got quoted €72 plus VAT

maybe a read of ALL the details first before having ago ??

Oh, and just for the purposes of fairness, when I last rang Calcul myself about a battery for the watch the quoted me €110 for the work !

locum-motion

So, according to you, MrTrebus:
Calcul (directly) quoted you 110.
A middleman told you that Calcul were quoting 72+VAT.
But, as it happened, neither of those prices were correct, and you got charged 50.
This just doesn't add up. No company quotes a price that's over twice its usual well established price for something, and then proceeds to charge a lower price afterwards.
The 110 (and 72) quotes must have been for some other service. Either you misunderstood what they were quoting, or they misunderstood what you were asking for a quote for.
Or am I way off base here?

MrTrebus

@locum-motion

What's to misunderstand ??

all I wanted was the battery replaced.
Because it's a promaster dive watch it "must" be replaced,resealed and pressure tested by a citizen dealer ONLY !!

Feel free to contact either fields jewelers ( where I left the watch ) or calcul themselves and ask them the price !

Fields charged me €50 then called me to say they couldn't do the work and to send it onto calcul it would cost a total of €72 plus vat .
When I collected the watch,I had a receipt saying I had already paid the €50 but there was no mention on her paperwork of any additional charges!

On the previous occasion of getting the battery changed I rang calcul directly and they quoted €110 !
That's why I went to fields

Benny-c

In the interest of fairness to Calcul Int:

I got a new battery fitted the Watch (Citizen Aqualand) & was pressure tested, dropped it in to them on Monday & picked it up today(Wed) & was charged €25.

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Also: to be fair to Calcul Int:

Have an Aqualand that has been sent to them 3 maybe 4 times, most recent last year. Don't remember exactly, 38 or 39 Euro.
Excellent service, new battery, tested and back in same week.