
Originally Posted by
youveboughtwhat
Well, if it only was for the battery change I would hand it over to my A Breitling D. They charge a reasonable 30 EUR including new seals and waterproof testing.
My local AD made a complete mess of a battery change last time. It ended up taking months due to the watchmaker on site apparently taking it to bits and then going on a three-week holiday. Unfortunately that overlapped with me going out of the UK for a few months and when I finally got the watch back they had cracked the lower digital display (and tried to say that it must have been like that when I gave it to them).
I pointed out that if it was the case I would have asked for it to be fixed at the same time and that it would have been noted on the paperwork when I handed the watch over. They finally relented after I started to complain quite noisily and was putting the other customers off so they then fixed the breakage they had caused (which took another month). I think I'll do it myself next time or possibly send it to BUK.