I bought this very gorgeous f300 Geneve watch recently from a fellow forum member . He discovered that one of the links where looking really bad. I said i buy any way and i can fix that so it looks better. Got the watch yesterday and the watch looks and works great .Except for the bent link . What i will do to that is to remove the old bad plate and replace it with one i have from some parts i have as spares . This is how it looked before . This is how it looks from the inside .Someone has bent it and destroyed the outside. Because that bends it in the wrong place. Making it looks nasty when bent back. This part i will be using instead . Coming from this spares i have around. Tools i will use . Is a broad screwdriver and a plastic thing? It's something i made from an old thing? Not sure whats the name for it? It's a rod that is for doing this. Knitting pins is what it is. That i have learn now. Have to bend the link up a little more to get it of. Now i can put the better looking plate back on the bracelet . Old and new. Gentle pressing or hammering the plate together again. I even use some kind of cloth or pad between the screwdriver and plate not to do any markings . Not in the picture though. Almost there just need to press the little gap together a little . For that i use a steel plate from a snap off knife blade . So i can put the bracelet in the vise like this. Not tightening the vise some it holds the bracelet .I should just hang from the blade and then gentle hammer the gap together. A small plastic hammer would be nice will be my next buy. Last thing i do is to polish just the plate with a fine and even finer scotch brite pad . Final result will come as soon as possible. This is a bracelet and watch that i did the same to sometime ago . Toplink next to case. Hope you can understand my English.
This is the final result. There is a slight bend in the link . So not hundred perfect. But much better than it was before? I am thinking of doing my own plates in the future to replace the bad looking ones . If i can find some stainless steel in good quality and at 0,5 mm thick. Sorry for the date.It's not Wednesday here yet.
The end pieces are just a small little piece that just sits on the middle parts. Number on it is 669 or 699 depends how you turn it? Putting the spring bars thru all of it.
Okey! You mean like in this pictures. Some of them i have manage to separate by using a special plier . That work in the opposite direction. So i could press them apart. If i couldn't i cut one side of with a cutting wheel in a dremel tool. Maybe a little grued I had a few spare extra links from a bracelet i bought on Ebay. I take them apart so i could use the middle part to service an other bracelet. Making it look better or replace worn parts. A tool like this would be perfect.