Old Sock said:
>> I was not suggesting frenetically wading in with a Swann-Morton No.10 blade - these (and
>> Stanley knives) are somewhat too brittle for the task in hand. A stout 'cook's knife'
>> seems to work best for me. Use chain-mail gloves and eye protection if you must....
If anyone dared use one of my (Japanese) kitchen knives for such a purpose, I'd skin them alive, or at least have a very very big sulk with lots of dirty looks, and muttering. You can buy back openers on ebay, I have one, pretty nasty quality, but cheap and fine for a cheap watch. I inherited a Jaeger Le Coultre watch, but some mutt had damaged the case trying to open it, probably the so-called watchmaker when he serviced the mechanism.
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