I bought some watch batteries on Amazon; Renata batteries are available
from many suppliers there. I had a dud, and two replacements were
dud(low voltage) also (right hand picture below). Three supplied ones as
on the left, seemed OK on voltage per Renata's spec. I asked Renata how
I could tell the age and was surprised by their response:-
Dear Mr. Horstmann,
We did receive your fax regarding the fake batteries. It seems that you
did buy fake batteries from an unsafe source. The blister pack on the
right hand side of your picture is a fake battery, for sure. The blister
on the left hand side is looking like our blisters, but you don't know
what is inside. We are aware that fake batteries Renata and other brands
are offered via internet and trade shop sources in China, Hong Kong and
Dubai (and maybe some other places too). Prices are very low because
these are alkaline button cells. Each and every genuine Renata battery
is marked with a date code on the battery itself.
May I strongly recommend that you purchase Renata batteries exclusively
from an official Renata distributor. Could you please let us have more
information about your company and your business activities (complete
address details, homepage etc.) in order to be able to inform you about
your nearest official distributor for genuine Renata batteries. Thank
you very much in advance and
best regards,
Daniel Cragnolini
Key Account Manager Consumer Batteries
Renata SA:-
"Fake Renata watch batteries"
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