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Title: What to do when a watch goes into washing machine cycle?
Post by: Sea Wolf on October 27, 2019, 04:49:48 PM

So my wife says to me today, hey one of your watches was in your pants pocket in the washing machine :o
She found it after the end of the cycle.

I put the watch in a can of rice. Is there anything else I should be doing to it?

Lucky it's only a swiss army quartz watch. It was not ticking when I put it in the rice this morning.
I pulled out the crown and put it in the rice container. Should I pull the battery?

Any advise from here?

Title: Re: What to do when a watch goes into washing machine cycle?
Post by: jmh86325 on October 27, 2019, 09:52:41 PM

what I've done with success on quartz watches is take off the caseback, pull the battery, strap on some desiccant packs with a rubber band. (you can find packs in OTC medicines...aspirin, etc)...and wait

good news ...58 days till christmas :sm3

Title: Re: What to do when a watch goes into washing machine cycle?
Post by: Butch on November 09, 2019, 06:43:40 AM

So how did this turn out SW? Oh, kortz, forget I asked.

Zodiac Talk => General Zodiac Discussion => Topic started by: Sea Wolf on October 27, 2019, 04:49:48 PM