Quartz watches offer a fantastic blend of accuracy and reliability, and they avoid the need for winding your watch at all, because the quartz watch battery takes care of the power for you. However, batteries don’t last forever, eventually you need to swap them out for a new one, which brings the two main questions for quartz watch ownership.
How do you know when to change watch battery in your quartz watch, and how to change quartz watch battery when you get to that point?
Some watches have a function called an end-of-life battery indicator that tells you when the quartz movement watch needs battery replacement. How this works does vary a little between watch brands, but it will usually involve the second hand pausing for a few seconds, then rapidly moving to catch up time. It will do this regularly until you change the battery.
Not all quartz watches have this, some will have a sticker on the watch back telling you the date when to change the watch battery, especially if it’s a watch your bought new. Finally, the most obvious way of knowing if the watch has no sticker or indicator, or if you ignore those signs, is that the watch will slow and eventually stop working.
Once you know that your quartz movement watch needs battery replacement, the next question is which watch battery do I need. For most quartz watches, seeking help from a jeweler is a great option, as they do everything for you without you needing to know how to replace quartz watch movement. Instead, they will fit the correct quartz watch battery and you can go back to enjoying your watch.