Tech of a different kind

Yesterday I replaced the battery in my watch. Ok, so this doesn’t sound so exciting, but I’m kinda proud of myself. This wasn’t your old fashioned mickey mouse watch we’re talking about here, this is a Timex (ok not impressive so far) Ironman (ok better) 50 lap (now we’re getting there) sleek model. That means there are electronics and what have you to make the 3 alarms, 2 countdown timers, 2 time zones and whopping 5 buttons work.
Really it wasn’t that bad, but I did have to go out and get me a jewler’s screwdriver and a new battery (total cost 7 dollars). Also, after I had the battery replace previously (at a watch shop in the mall) it stopped beeping. I thought that it was just the watch and really didn’t think more about it, but it turns out that there’s a little spring that has to be in contact with the case for the beeping mechanism to work. While I was in there, I fixed that too. The watch shop had accidentally covered this little spring with a sticker (shouldn’t they know better?) that prevented contact with the case. There was a bit of a harrowing moment when the entire watch fell out of the case, but other than that, I unscrewed four screws, popped the back case off, used a push pin to pop a cover off the battery, threw the new one in and reversed the process. Now my watch has indiglo again without the screen going blank, and I can use the 3 alarms.
Booyah.