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I have an Armitron Musical Quartz watch. Before, the watched "played" but did not keep time. I replaced both batteries and now the watch keeps time but doesn't "play." HELP!

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It is likely that you didn't line up the music button with the indent. I needed to push my music button out and gently align th knob with the indent so that the connection was made. Also my watch has a plastic disk that had 2 holes for little metal tabs to stick through so that the watch grounded or something. It took me 5 times of trial and error, but mine works. My watch however plays 2 tunes and is the Taz & Mrs. Taz Armitron.

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If you go to the Amitron web site (amitron.com) and select "support", you will arrive at their list of instructions.

Choose the one that matches your watch, download it and follow instructions.

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