127 bazel ring

[Polynomial]

I wonder if somebody with experience in fitting/taking off 127 or 217 bazel can help me with advice; the ring was not fitted properly to the case and on one side there is 1/2 mm space left. I am not sure if trying to press it with brute force would be a good idea, would a proper press be needed and how careful would one need to be to press the bazel on firmly?

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[frankt]

I wonder if somebody with experience in fitting/taking off 127 or 217 bazel can help me with advice; the ring was not fitted properly to the case and on one side there is 1/2 mm space left. I am not sure if trying to press it with brute force would be a good idea, would a proper press be needed and how careful would one need to be to press the bazel on firmly?

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These bezels are unbelieveably tightly fit!!...I couldn't get mine back onto my 217 without totally destroying the plastic bezel gasket, and I had to actually glue it into place(temporarily)until I can figure out a way to redo it correctly without breaking that massively domed crystal...I think that this very tight fit situation puts a lot of stress on the crystal, and may be partly responsible for the rash of mysterious "spontaneous" crystal self destruct incidents these watches are known to suffer...

[Polynomial]

just discovered this myself -- accept it was not fit at all, it eventually fall off the case, now re-fitting turned out to be impossible, I even managed to damage the dial and then gave up; that's it no more business with Davidsen, other dealers at least send out watches that are to some degree assembled

I also think improper crystal presses (or whatever they use to press the bezel with crystal into the case) might de-form the bezel ring and cause explosion...

So who knows somebody in UK who can do this sort of work now when Finepics is not around much these days?