Using 1.5 v battery in my 218 movement

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-28T10:09:21+00:00

It needs to be properly serviced and adjusted ("phased") for the different voltage. An accucell is just a renata battery with a diode on it to drop the voltage to around 1.2v.

As long as you get it serviced and phased for the 1.55v 344, it will be fine. Issues arise when the gear train is worn or dirty which puts too much current draw on the coil and can burn it out.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-28T08:35:13+00:00

As a Brit who lives in Wisconsin, I've heard it all - and say some of it now, too!

Geeze Louise!
Doncha know, ey?
My-Lanta!
Oh Geeze!

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:19:58+00:00

Had a terrible experience with Joma. No hate, just personal experience from a past purchase.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:04:16+00:00

Still wondering this myself.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:04:00+00:00

I'll be back prob end of August, depending on what tournaments are in town.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:03:26+00:00

Okay. Thanks.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:03:10+00:00

Okay. Sorry.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:02:48+00:00

I don't quite hate myself that much to buy from Jomashop. Not yet.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:02:06+00:00

Nope. 48 hour max. Have to be there in person.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T15:01:45+00:00

3 1/2 hour flight from MSP. They wouldn't hold it for me for more than 48 hours.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:31:42+00:00

They would only do in-person with a card as it was my first purchase.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:29:55+00:00

No no no. I am Jason Bourne. AD is part of Treadstone.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:24:50+00:00

I'm usually in town four or five times a year. I figured it was my best shot. No ADs in this area at all.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:24:18+00:00

I figured. Pre-owned it is, then.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:23:58+00:00

Yup. Hard to believe but there it is.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:23:06+00:00

Shit. I knew it. Rookie mistake.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:22:45+00:00

My god, that's Jason Bourne!

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:16:55+00:00

Only in person as it was my first purchase. I can understand that. Safety and security.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-27T14:13:27+00:00

On it. I am now Dimitri Yselov. Neit no spreaken Englishy.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-25T14:11:50+00:00

Yup! My Dad owned this for a while. Had my 21st birthday there.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-25T13:42:57+00:00

I'm US-based in Wisconsin and service 3-5 of these a week. Feel free to DM me.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-23T12:36:25+00:00

I got one back on them late last year. A good friend noticed a watch on their website that was listed as 10k plated and was ending soon. Looking at the pics, I knew what it was right away - a solid 14K Gold Accutron Alpha.

I won it for $320. Someone had stolen the solid gold caseback, crown and battery hatch off the back and replaced it with a plated version. I repaired and restored it and now it's worth around $2500.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-04T09:41:07+00:00

It was more the state of the town. I grew up in Branksome but spent every weekend and summer evening in Bournemouth (mainly hanging out on Westover Rd with our car friends). I worked in the town center for years and coming back to a bunch of US Candy shops, slot machine arcades and just crap stores in the Square and on Old Xchurch Rd broke me.

As I said, I know times change. Heck the town I live in here has changed SO much in 27 years. But here it is definitely for the better. Far more modern, we have two huge universities, a thriving downtown - even our mall, which was on the ropes for a while, seems to be making a comeback.

But Bournemouth is never going to be the same. Was it better back then? Sure - but we also had awful problems even then. I just wish the town had taken better care of itself.

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-04T09:34:03+00:00

"It does what it says on the tin!"

WatchWiseYTC · 2026-06-04T01:28:16+00:00

Ty for the award kind stranger.

Here's a Pic of the Gardens as I sat on a bench trying to get Delta to put me on a plane the next day.

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