{"id":497,"date":"2019-05-08T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:47:00","slug":"reactor-trident-watch-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/reactor-trident-watch-10-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactor Trident Watch – 10 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2009, I got myself a Reactor Trident watch<\/a>. This watch had been my daily-wear watch, and while I do switch it out to wear other watches in my collection, I still return to this watch often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the features of this watch is that it has a 10-year battery lifespan. Well, I just replaced the battery in April 2019. So yeah, you can say it does indeed have a 10-year battery lifespan. I did that myself actually, didn’t bring it in to any watch store to get the battery replaced. Couldn’t find a CR2012 (man, they’re rare!), and after doing a little bit of research, it seemed that other people have used a CR2016 instead of a CR2012 battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

So, yeah, the CR2016 is easily found. I opened up the caseback and replaced the battery. Fits just fine. While I had the watch caseback off, I just blew some compressed air into the nooks and crannies of the innards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amazing thing (to me at least) is that after the battery replacement, the watch is even more accurate now than it was. Previously it was losing about 2 seconds a month. Now it’s spot-on keeping the same time as the atomic time which I adjusted it to after the battery replacement. It’s May 2019 now, and the watch is still lock-step in sync with atomic time. Didn’t lose nor gain any time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past 10 years, the black nitride at the buckle of the bracelet has worn off so some silvery metallic colour is showing through. 2 of the links on the bracelets also has wear-and-tear and the nitride coating is lost there too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lume dot on the bezel no longer glows, and the bezel has developed arthritis, and it no longer turns easily. It does still turn though, if I put effort into it, but it isn’t easy to turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tritium tubes have also dimmed somewhat. I only noticed it because I bought a new Reactor Gamma Titanium<\/a> watch recently, and I can see the very obvious difference in brightness at night on the 2 watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the battery has been replaced, I look forward to at least 16 years more of use out of this watch. Why 16 years? Because if a CR2012 is supposed to last 10 years, based on calculation, the CR2016 should last 16 years (battery capacity). So, I guess the next battery change will be in 2035 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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