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<p>[QUOTE="drg642, post: 2535936, member: 74"]I appreciate all your comments. My idea was to auction it, starting at a little above what I can get for the scrap, so anyone interested in it as a watch could buy it. I would like to avoid just scrapping what to me is a beautiful case. </p><p>I suspect that if I take the movement out myself, I could damage it, or not be able to get it back in, but I really don't want to invest anything in having it checked out. I do not have a screw driver small enough, so I guess I will get one and see if I can do it myself. I do have 1/16 inch, but that is too big. If I get a set of 0.6 - 1.6 mm screwdrivers, should somewhere in that range be small enough?</p><p>The rim that holds the crystal actually hinges open, so it looks like it may be removed fairly easily once the screws are loosened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="drg642, post: 2535936, member: 74"]I appreciate all your comments. My idea was to auction it, starting at a little above what I can get for the scrap, so anyone interested in it as a watch could buy it. I would like to avoid just scrapping what to me is a beautiful case. I suspect that if I take the movement out myself, I could damage it, or not be able to get it back in, but I really don't want to invest anything in having it checked out. I do not have a screw driver small enough, so I guess I will get one and see if I can do it myself. I do have 1/16 inch, but that is too big. If I get a set of 0.6 - 1.6 mm screwdrivers, should somewhere in that range be small enough? The rim that holds the crystal actually hinges open, so it looks like it may be removed fairly easily once the screws are loosened.[/QUOTE]
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