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I am writing to file a complaint regarding my wife's watch. The watch was purchased Dec. 2008. It stopped working twelve months later. The limited warranty stated that the watch would be repaired for free. I was contacted by the authorized repair center and told there was charge for repair and that the new battery that was in the watch had to be replaced. This all seem to me like a racket.

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Warranties only cover a failure due to manufacture. Unfortunately dead batteries are not covered by any maker as there is nothing wrong with a watch if the battery fails.

I year does seem a little short. Perhaps it was running for a time before you bought it? Who knows!

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