If you want a good sub hold onto your money and keep an eye on the member sales section, some real good ones come up for sale regularly, for $400 you should be able to get a fairly well modded one.
King wouldn't have been happy at all if he'd have insured it because she would have had to pay import charges, whenever a watch has to be returned to a dealer they always ask the sender to put a low value on the package, as you probably know unfortunately you cannot insure a package for more than the value stated on the customs form.
You should be able to get the bracelet off with a small (jewelers type) screwdirver, it's held on with spring pins, if you don't have a tool to get the back off use balled up sticky tape (sticky side out).
AFAIK he doesn't actually need the folding part, just the clasp part got dented, I assume this part just has a spring pin at each end? anyway many thanks for the kind offer, I'll PM my details to you.
"Movement: ETA-2836 25j nickel movement, like the original movement, automatic"
Welcome, and if you're into reps hold onto your wallet oh and if you think the swatch is too big wait until until you succumb to the Panerai
It's not a rep but I thought it was an interesting piece so I thought I'd post a few pics, it came direct from Castrol so I assume it was some kind of promotional freebie, from the 1970's, you can tell the age by looking at the cost of return postage for a service in the photo below