Miriam Cohen
I don't recommend this store for watch repairs. I have a Tissot that I purchased at the Ben Gurion duty-free Tissot store a few years' ago. Several months' ago, it stopped working. I went to this store and they changed the battery. It worked for a short time, then stopped. I went back to the store. The watchmaker fiddled with it for a couple minutes and it started working. Since March, I haven't gone anywhere, but a month ago, I took it out and - guess what - it wasn't working. I went back to the store and asked if it had stopped working because it was on the shelf for so long.
Without answering me, he put in a new battery! While I stood there, people packed into this tiny store which made me, at age 84, extremely nervous. The clerk asked me for 30 shekels ( I only paid 20 for the Timex battery??). I didn't even check to see if the watch was working. I just wanted to get out of there. But, I made sure to get a receipt
(which, BTW, was totally unreadable so I made him write what it was for and he attached a business card).
When I got home, I took out the watch to set the time, but the watch wasn't working. I phoned the owner. He said to come in and he would refund my 30 shekels. This was after he said they don't guarantee batteries which could stop working a minute later. (Have you ever heard such nonsense?)
I waited till after Hanukkah to avoid crowds and went there this morning. Ilan, the owner, told me the battery was fine. The movement needed replacing. Well, that may, or may not, be true. In any case, I wouldn't trust this firm to do it. He, grudgingly, gave me back the 30 shekels, but also removed the battery.
So, in summary, I paid 30 shekels, wasted my time with many visits, endangered my health, had 3 batteries removed from the watch, probably all good, and am left with a non-working battery-less watch. By my calculation, I am out 120 shekels for the 3 good batteries plus my payment and have nothing to show for it except aggravation.
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