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I own a Seiko watch which is quite a number of years old and my grandson, aged 5 took it out without me knowing and has smached the crystal on the watch. How do I go about sizing it, and where should I look for the Crystal? On a second question, I would like to replace an automatic movement from a VOKEN watch, that has a lot of damaged, with a new movement, the watch has a day/date and has these numbers on the back plate; V6 8W 4V-00009 .. How do I go about sizing this up and making sure that it will fit with the day date the right way round, Also where could I order one from. I know that you gentlemen have a lot of experiance between you, and I hope you can help this amature out of this situation. Thank you all very much. David.

I have an old small Seiko quartz watch with a case number 200834 and stem number 2E20-6300. Some time after a repair of the stem by a jewelry store, the stem began to malfunction again and the crown got loose and was lost. After watching a few of the repair videos on your website, I thought Seiko design should be just as straight-forward, and I might be able to do the repairs myself. So, I purchased a new stem and a new crown and tried to remove the stem after attaching the new crown by pushing on any of the holes or screw-looking spots or levers to unlock the catch. Unfortunately none of them seemed to budge. In the process of fiddling, the watch internal popped out of the casing with the seal now loose. I would appreciate any help that anybody could offer. I guess I may have to purchase some very small screw drivers if needed. FYI: I am attaching two pictures of the watch, one for the back side of the internal and one for the watch back cover. In the first picture, the watch internal is just resting on the watch casing. Thank you.

Just got this classic looking Seiko from a fleamarket in Penang.. Price was MYR80 (about USD25 ), cheap but it was not running.. what sold me was the clean dial and hands (no trace of the black stuff on the hands), and nice case design with tapered edges..... ... I have a few 'organ donors' for parts so should be able to get it running with minimal cost. When I got it home I found that the lume was in great shape as well..bonus! The first issue was the rotor would not unscrew.. rather the post which is riveted to the main bridge would rotate.., a main plate was liberated from another movement, together with a third wheel as the original had mysteriously lost a third of its diameter...now how did that happen.? About 2 hours work and all fixed and running, not perfect as the rotor bearing I had is a bit loose, but good enough. I'll let it run for while before I try to regulate it. Question... caseback says this is a 7025-8030 but checked online and all the other 8030 cases have a more angular look. Anyone seen one in this style? It is very possible that the caseback may have been swapped out so does anybody know the correct case reference? I would say from the serial number this dates from 89... anyone have other thoughts? wrist shot....