Bad Watchmaking by Others: Botched Repairs & Bodges

Not quite as cool as the rest of you, but I'll submit one. This is a Quartz ST Dupont tank watch that was sent my way. REALLY art-deco and kinda cool.

One of the hands fell off apparently during shipping, and the previous watchmaker spent a WHILE trying to pry the case back off. This is the best photo I could get of it, but said case knife did some serious damage, and he eventually gave up and called it 'unrepairable'.




HAD he spent some time on it (that is, actually taken the straps off!) he would have realized there were 4 screws in the side of the case holding it together. Only photo I have, but you can see two of them here 😀



I don't have any after photos (this is ALSO the one where that gasket you can see fell into a few pieces, from I shaped to L Shaped, as soon as I opened the case), but I DID use a gentle amount of hammering to get it looking... a little better? But the original guy's work will be with this one forever 😀