Watch batteries running out fast?

[Stellalarella]

I would really like to be able to wear a watch. I am so hard on them, though and for some bizarre reason it seems like the ones I wear run through batteries fast.

Am I imagining this or does anybody else also have trouble keeping watches going?

[SJ.]

This happens to me too. I have given up on wearing watches. I tell dh it is my strong electromagnetism interfering with the watch batteries :lol:

[Jacquelyn in NC]

My mother has that same difficulty. As long as the watch isn't touching her skin they seem to be OK. She found a necklace watch once that worked really well (since it touched her shirt and not her skin directly). Her other solution is to buy several cheap watches and loop them onto things she always has with her (her purses, the bag she takes to work, her Bible cover, etc).

[TammyinTN]

My husband solved this problem by getting me an eco-drive watch by Citizen.

[happypamama]

I've had a watch for about ten years, and its battery lasted for the first several. However, in the past five years, I think I've replaced it six or seven times. I have the lifetime battery deal with Zale's, but they no longer do it (I've still gotten my money's worth from them). A jeweler told me that when watches start to go bad, the batteries don't last very long, though that did not make a lot of sense to me. I wonder if batteries are just lower quality anymore.