Watch Doctor

I write this review to correct the one first written, because the man operating this store does not deserved a two-​star rating.
The gentleman was friendly and thoughtful, quick and honest. I went to get my girlfriend’s nurse watch battery replaced, and this was done in haste, but well. The proprietor offered me the choice of batteries that lasted one or two years, with prices appropriate. There was no pressure to pay more.

The Watch Doctor is inside City Cross Arcade so you can get to it from Rundle Mall through that main entrance, or through the Grenfell Street or Gawler Place entrances. It is opposite the public toilets inside the arcade on the Eastern side in the walkway that takes you out to Gawler Place.
The Watch Doctor has recently featured on one of those television current affairs programs that burst in on people demanding they start talking about something they have done that is evidently untoward.
I don’t need to name the program, you can go to the Watch Doctors website for a full explanation of that situation.
The website more or less tells what seems to be the truth, someone dropped a watch off to be fixed, the watch went missing and that is pretty much the whole story. Sad situation for the Watch Doctor, sadder for his client, because they lost their watch on the Watch Doctors watch, as it were.
It is mainly for this reason that I’m saying I’ve seen better.
I have seen watches go into repair shops and get repaired and return to their rightful owner. So yes on that score the Watch Doctor is a bit slack. That doesn’t mean they don’t sell a few things at reasonable prices, and that you can’t check them out yourself.
Make up your own mind. Unfortunately negative publicity can kill a business even if it isn’t completely accurate.
If you were hoping to have your watch fixed, maybe try somewhere else and get a quote and find out if it will be replaced if under any circumstances it goes missing.
You can get a quote on a watch repair here, or a jewellery repair, you can browse the watches they have for sale and you can buy batteries for watches. Their position in the city is convenient for people working in the city — otherwise you’d find a local jeweller most likely who has never featured on a current affairs program that is a little dubious itself.