How To Replace Crown On Watch. Remove the crown and cut the measured amount off from the stem minus about 025 mm to allow for stoning see image below. Removing the crown of your quartz watch is a simple process that can be done with a mini screwdriver and a watch-case opener knife.
Stone down the end of the stem to make it flat and round over edges see image below. Ill give you two answers and both of them are no but one is a lot longer. There is a very tiny lever on this to the left of the stem if looking at it with the stem and crown pointing away from you that for some reason is virtually impossible to operate unless you loosen the screw near the steam a couple of turns even then its tricky.
The stem and crown are attached so you cannot replace the crown without replacing the stem.
There is often a small button or plunger on the back of the movement that you push down to release the crown and stem these are stepped and the plunger relaeses to allow the step to come out. We guarantee that after we are done it will look and work just like when it was first purchased. There is insufficient remaining tooth. Unscrew the crown until it pops out.
