Watch doesnt work even with a new battery

Make sure you have the correct battery and that the contacts are clean. Make sure the back completely snapped shut. also you might want to try another new battery sometimes even a new one is bad. Give it a few minutes after you put it in to power up

battery could be low, i have had a similar thing happen with a large face rip curl watch, works fine until you press the light button, theres not enough current left to run the face and the light. mine was almost new too, so even if you just got it it could be that!

If it's more than a year old it may need a fresh battery. Any watch or jewelry shop can do that for you for about $8.

It sounds like it. Take it to a local dealer who will change it for you.

Clean the contacts. Get the sharp needle and scrape both contacts. If it does not work, you need a watchmakers help. Rate me, plz.

Is it possible that you have put the battery in the wrong way round?

Make sure your new battery is not flat and on full power. Sometimes batteries are not fully charged as they discharge over the time and as they are stocked in large quantities, some of them get discharged even they are sold as brand new.
When replacing battery in your watch, make sure you keep the right polarity. Plus and minus must match appropriate contacts. After replacement connect AC and plus side of the battery at once for 2-3 seconds - this will reactivate watch and you will need to set the watch manually.
If you did all this and your watch don't work at all, there is some fault in watch mechanics and you have to look for watchmakers help.

Could be a duff battery - this does happen - even to duracell.

Try another battery - try and get a renata as was originally in the watch. Luminox usually use the Ronda swiss movement - which are pretty bulletproof movements. (i've got 2 Luminox - nice watches, prefer these of trasers)

If you don't get any joy with another new battery - send to the recommended sevice / repairer on Luminox website - prices are not that bad and you can specifiy exactly what you want done so it should not cost the earth - all prices are there to see.

US
Luminox Service Center
1024 Reservoir Avenue
Cranston, RI, 02910
P-401-946-0930
Toll Free-888-61-WATCH
[email protected]

UK
Luminox Service Centre
Unit 11, NCR Buisness Centre
400 North Circular Road
London NW10 0AB


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Even you change a new battery with desame size and volts not working.The problem is in the terminal where going to put the battery.The terminal had a dirt or a film residue that comes out from the battery,you better clean terminal by scratching the old film,the lying down terminal is negative,,the side terminal is positive you better observed polarity if happen inter change the battery side it will not works.If not working, even you clean already terminal,short the terminal connection for 3 seconds,If you have a flourescent with a ballast,put your watch lying where there is strong vibration for five minutes, your watch works 100% txt me whatever the result so i know it's ok.

Stephen,
Pocket watches are watches the collect dust (from the pockets they sit in) very easily, so you may have an issue here with that being the cause of why your hands are not moving as they once did. Then again, it could be VERY easily that you went to a place to have them replaced and the battery you purchased was "aged" and no longer has power enough to make the watch function properly. I would suggest that if you replaced it yourself in a place where you bought the battery and went home to put it in, go to a place where they put it in for you as they will overturn the stock much quicker. If the clerk is someone of real knowledge they will even be able to tell you "we sell a 20 of that one every week" or something of that nature. As I have suggested to others this is the time of year where quality of service for a small watch battery is much less then it will be when you go in in 5 weeks when the store is happy to see someone.