GS has many types of movements including manual wind, auto, quartz, and Spring Drive (mechanical with a quartz oscillator). Even Rolex made a quartz watch at one time. Don’t confuse all quartz watches with cheap, low-quality watches.

I think for a battery only, the answer is yes. This was a more comprehensive service so I’m not sure. I can say I definitely was not ready to add another $50 to the bill!

I wish I could have filmed the service counter because it was super busy and that is the other part of this story. Still, a one watch guy might very likely walk out the door. Thanks for the comment.

@@manning8 You'd think they might like to have more customers milling around, looking at other sales displays and products to buy. 🤔

@@JM.TheComposer That certainly works for car dealers

The alternative for a luxury watch dealer is to not offer service while you wait. I wouldn’t pay the $50 unless travel arrangements are a challenge but it’s nice to have the option.

Admittedly I was hasty in making that comment. I viewed "$50 to wait" as "you are required to leave the store unless you pay a $50 cover charge". Clearly that's not the intention.

When it comes to watches it seems nothing is cheap.

What do you recommend?? I noticed over the weekend the battery was probably too limited.

@@manning8 what I mean is look straight into the camera lens when you record video 🙂

@@DzejWiJV I can work on that. So much to learn with KZfaq, haha.

Servicing the SBGW231 will be far more expensive, especially if the Zaratsu-polished surfaces need work.

True. I used to bring my G-Shock's to some watch shop to get battery replacement once in a while over the years. Until I didn't care and had accumulated 6 of them requiring replacement. I've noticed that the guy at the shop seemed a bit annoyed when I brought them to him. When I went back to pick them up later that day the guy told me that 3 of them were just dead. Since they were "dead", I thought, why not try to open them up and get some batteries and see by myself. 1 was working just fine after fiddling with the push buttons/contacts, and the other 2, they were just too "complicated" to disassemble to access the battery... The guy just took me for a fool. (also I was charged like $10/watch when a battery costs $1.5 where I live)

Hello, thank you for watching and for the comment. You can go the $20 route *if* you don't care much about the watch. I would like for everyone to realize that water resistance can be compromised when you open up a watch case, especially in the DIY context. I depend on the water resistance so I had a watchmaker perform a water pressure test for my watch.