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Hi,

I was wondering if someone had changed the battery in their Aerospace Avantage before?
Are there any gotchas I should be aware of?

Cheers!!

Dom

Not sure if anyone here has done it, but the recommendation is to take it to a Breitling AD with a watchmaker. For $60 - $80 you'll get the battery change and no concerns over future servicing which can easily happen if Breitling recognizes that unauthorised work has been performed.

Thanks, I appreciate the advice!
I think it's a bit more in the AD's I've seen locally - London so I'm still interested in a bit of DIY depending on how easy it is as the case back appears to just be screwed in place

I would let a qualified watch maker or AD do it. You may be opening a can of worms to save a few dollars.

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"A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure."

Yea you're right, guess I'll just have to cough up the £87!

I'd normally agree with you about the cost as it's a bloody ripoff to just get a £5 battery replaced (especially as they don't guarantee against leaking batteries), however for a watch that currently retails at £3,100 I'd not take the risk of damaging anything as BUK will just refuse to fix it, or they will stiff you big time to repair any damage.

I've got a Co-pilot on my Aerospace, so two sets of batteries, and effectively twice the cost

Wonder if it's just good old 'rip-off Britain' that has to put up with these high prices ... no doubt due to some arbitrary currency exchange rate

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Have
2019 B55 Exospace on Titanium bracelet
2014 SuperAvenger II Military LE
Had
2013 Avenger Seawolf SS yellow Arabic dial
2010 Aerospace Avantage black dial & Co-pilot
2007 Aerospace Repetition Minutes
2003 Superocean
2001 Chronospace