(Original Post link) – www.watchspace.co.uk/2021/06/14/double-date/
Update – December 2023
The battery has died, which should have been easy to replace – BUT – on trying to remove what appears to be a screw down back – it simply will not move.
One issue is that the slots around the edge of the back plate are VERY badly defined and too shallow for any of my three different tools, after many attempts, to grip properly. I thought for one moment that perhaps these were false slots and the back was a snap type, though the watch is inscribed with 100m Water Resistance, so I thought not. However, I tried the tools I have for snap back – but not possible.
Finally after deciding, that damage or no damage to the back, I was going to get this thing off. So, clamped in the vice (NOT a watch makers one, but a fully fledged industrial one) a decent weight hammer and an effective chisel blade that manage to get wedged in one of these shallow slots, I belted it many, many times!
But . . . . you’ve guessed it – not an iota of difference – no movement whatsoever!
So, as my blood pressure was moving faster than the stupid watch back, I decided enough was enough – I have therefore “thrown” this Kienzle into my junk bin. The rubbish collection people are due later this week – and I am VERY tempted to let it go with them. And that is the very first time since I started watch collecting (many years ago now) that such a thing has happened, but these days, at my age I simply do not have the TIME to mess about.
Watch space 