Anyway, yesterday I was in Bristol and I noticed that my watch was losing time. It occurred to me that it maybe was about due for a battery so when I found myself near a national chain jewellers shop I popped in to ask if they'd change it for me.
Now it's quite an old watch, nearly 30 years old in fact but it was once quite a good one being a Tag. I'm very fond of it on the basis that it was about the only thing of value I managed to salvage from the financial ravages of my first marriage!
So, in the first shop I went into I was informed that they'd need to send it to Switzerland to have the battery changed at a cost of £45 and that it would take about 3 weeks. I politely turned their kind offer down and sought out an alternative retailer. That one said they could do it on site but that it would need to be left overnight and that they would only charge me £32.
Having decided that even at such a bargain rate I would try elsewhere, the third jewellers I tried said that they could of course do it while I waited and that they would need a mere £12 for the privilege but could I possibly come back in an hour or so as their battery changing engineer was currently on her lunch break?
Unsurprisingly perhaps, I got a bit bored with the project at that point and put it out of my mind until this morning.
Then, while in my home town this morning I happened by a small independent jewellers shop we've used for bits and pieces before and set them what now seemed in my mind to have turned into a significant challenge.
Could they possibly replace the battery for me in a reasonable timescale and without causing me to drift into overdraft? Well, lo and behold they could, "Would you like to wait? It'll only take a few minutes sir, but it's mildly tricky with your watch as we'll need to re-seal it"
Ok says I, and how much will that be?
"Altogether that'll be £5 sir"
Jolly good...
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