Hopefully these images will help you pull the crown and stem out of your Westclox Bull’s Eye pocket watch.
After you remove the metal strap that goes across the back of the movement, find the hole pictured in the photos below and gently insert tweezers while lifting up. This will raise the button/pin and you can then proceed to remove the crown and stem. Once the stem has been pulled out, you can carefully lift the movement out of the case.
Although these timepieces are referred to as dollar watches and sell for anywhere between $10-50, they’re still watches after all… not to mention made in USA! Feel free to comment below whether this post helped or not.
well done,very helpful to me after mess up how to pull out the crown !
This was confusing and hard to get out..but after a cupple of trys i got the insides out of the watch ..thank u this is very helpfull..i also found this watch at a antique store in ohio for a visit im from Michigan
This has not worked for me at all after hours of many attempts of your method on the four exact movements none of the stems could be removed very frustrating.
Try my method above. I didn’t have pliers small enough to go through the hole, and tweezers usually just slip off. So I found another way.
once I do manage to whole sale the thing trying to get the stem out I cannot re install it it wont stay in or operate the hands
This happened to me too. I could not get the stem back in after I removed the crown. But what I did was I did the above process in reverse. I pressed the button again when putting the stem back in carefully and not it’s working perfect. Thanks to this post, great info.
Thanks for the help! Worked perfectly!
Thank you for letting us know!
THANX A LIFE SAVER! AMAZING INFO
Glad this post was helpful, thank you for letting us know!
Worked on my Westclox Scotty, thanks!
Glad it worked! Thank you for the comment!
Very helpful.
Thanks very much.
Now it’s easy to replace the broken Crystal.
Worked great for me.
Just took a few seconds.
Hope that the Scotty and pocket Ben are the same way.
Thanks.
Robert.
Thank you for letting us know! Please report back after you work on the Scotty and Pocket Ben pieces 🙂
This was helpful in use to working on wrist watches those you follow the stem down lucky I didn’t break it lol
My watch is/was old and rusted, so I had to gently pull it out of the case as much as I could so that I could see the base plate that the above post is attached to. I added a dab of oil and used a strong small flat head screwdriver to pry the post up or at least loosen it a bit. Once it got loose, I was able to pull out the crown.… Read more »
Hi Jackman6, late reply, but thanks for sharing your experience and tips!
It works! But I found that it’s better, if you have a clean, skinny soldering tool or dental pick, to just lift that side of the works a little and slip the tool in behind the pin. Then just lift it, and pull the stem out. Thanks for the great info!
Hi Lewis, happy to help! Thank you for sharing your method of getting the stem out. Surely it will help others as well 🙂
Excellent advice, thank you! Worked great on the Scotty. I did find I had better luck using a screwdriver to lift the pin.
Hi Mike, glad to hear the post was helpful! Thanks for sharing the screwdriver tip 🙂
A friend gave me a watch like this that wasn’t running. By the time I got the watch back home and the back off it started running. It’s been running ever since. It doesn’t keep the best time. i thought I’d try and oil it. Very very sparingly. I don’t want to take the hands off as it makes me nervous. Any advice appreciated. I would send it somewhere for service if I knew were… Read more »
This is really interesting. You’re a very skilled blogger. I was able to get the movement out of my watch. Thank you!
I truly appreciate your help! Got the crown out of this old watch I found at the fleamarket!
I purchased a westclox scotty in 1970 at the US Navy exchange in Norfolk Va. while stationed there. I believe I paid $3.98 for it. It has an all metal movement with screws and not rivets. It is marked model 90001 and has a 69 mark inside. It still keeps good time after all these 53 years, however the crown has pulled off the stem at sometime or another and is missing. I made a… Read more »