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 Posted: Sun Jun 3rd, 2007 02:52 pm
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cnmark



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 Well, this post is a bit "tongue in cheek"...;)

Some people have mailed me, asking if there is any special tool to open the case back of the Seagull "1963" with it's uncommon 10 facettes.




At my last visit at Seagull I just asked them what they use...
They took me over to the watchmaker's workplace, after some digging in several drawers this tool was shown to me:







OK, all this digging around in these drawers made it perfectly clear that this tool has not been used over a really loooong time. But they had one "1963" open on the table.

Let's look around what else might be of use:



What's that on the keyboard in front of the Witschi? Yup, gotcha! The standard case opener ball is the tool of choice at Seagull.

So nothing special to open the case of the watch, either one uses the ball (available at Ofrei or jewellerssupplies) or any of these: the V-Shape Case Opener (CWR-580.00), V-Tech Case Opener (167.705) at Ofrei, the Case Opener V-Shape (590.018) at jewelerssupplies. Though I might be able to source a Chinese tool like the one above - it will most likely not be worth the shipping cost.