Seamaster Deville - Candidate for restoration or best avoided?

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The watch pictured below will come up for auction locally as part of a lot filled with junk watches in mid-February. It is obviously going to need - at best - hands, a correct crown, and a full mechanical service. What do you think - grab it if the price is right (aka low...) and put some cash into it? Does anything stand out as special on this, from the little that can be seen? I'm not too concerned with resale value or getting what I put into it back out in the short term, but I'm also not one to waste money.

Thank you in advance for any advice. I mostly collect Japanese watches and thus spend most of my time over at SCWF, so this is some new territory for me.

 
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Lug at 5 is bent

How much would you be willing to pay?
 
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Lug at 5 is bent

How much would you be willing to pay?

Thanks - I didn't see the lug. I wouldn't go over $100 - $150, considering what I know I would have to put into it + the unknowns that are almost certainly lurking in there somewhere...
 
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Really hard to tell off a single image, but it could be missing its bezel. There's a lip showing where it should be flush with the edge

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You buy the case and the dial. Most of the rest can be fixed. Bad case, bad dial, no thanks.
 
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Bent lugs! cant say how many times that has caught me out, real teeth grinding stuff! but if you can find the necessary crown, glass, hands, potentially bezel and most importantly a cheap sympathetic watch maker it would still make a nice piece.