Ok seeing we are on this topic..........................I can't do it!...............Umm maybe I better explain that statement, I have been practising with cheap quartz movements to remove the crown and I have stuufed up a lot of them too.
I usually scan the whole movement with a ten times loupe to find anything that could conceivablly be the crown removal button, only when I am fully satisfied that I have the correct button do I then try to remove the crown.
I have tried with a very gentle push and gradually pushing harder until I completely stuff it but I have never succeeded in removing a crown, I have even taken a movement to a watchmaker and asked which button to push! In fact yesterday I had a movement that actually had lettered on the back PUSH and an arrow pointing to the button but I couldn't get it to budge, to make matters worse a friend popped in and asked what I was doing so I showed him and let him have a go and 5 minutes later he's sitting there with the bloody crown in his hand and he knows nothing about watches!!!
So big question......................what in blazes am I doing wrong
Ken