Watching a cheap tag heuer aquaracer

banie01 wrote: »

He has the watch up for over 2months and says it's running perfectly that it just needs a battery.
For the sake of a trip into a jeweller for a battery change and at most €20, yet he hasn't done it.

Leaking cells are thankfully a far rarer occurrence these days, but that lad has left the watch with its dead battery for however long!

If I was looking for a Tag, I'd be looking elsewhere tbh.

Exactly. It's the watch equivalent of "it'll fly the NCT".

yamaha4life wrote: »

Yeah im going to leave that tag where it is although i bought my 2000 series non runner, put in a battery and away it went kept great time sold it on ebay for a tidy profit

Same could happen here. You need to ask yourself what's it worth if it is dead? What's the chance it is dead? How much is it worth if it works?

If it's worth just €100 if dead and worth €1000 if good with a 50-50 chance, then your worst case scenario on a €200 offer is a loss of €100. Best case scenario on same offer a profit of €800. Both minus your cost of fitting a battery. On the probabilities, you will be in the money.

I do this sort of thing with broken stuff all the time. Not with watches, mind. I make offers, usually way below the (imho unrealistic) asking price taking into account these scenarios. If my initial offer (or slightly higher after negotiation) is not accepted, no water off my back. If it is accepted, from there on in, it's my risk. If it works out, I make a tidy profit. If it doesn't work out, I make a loss

I do enjoy the fixing and I take pride in getting something destined for landfill back up and doing duty again.