swiss army back

[Steve]

I have an old swiss army quartz, (the old famous time and date model
with the red and chrome ring round a white dial on a black case, and I
want toget the back off.

The back has small (grip?) grooves all around but i suspect it is NOT
a screw on. Can anyone confirm this before i dammage it during
removal.

[Carl West]

Ignore the groves, they're decoration.
It pries off.
If you can do it.
Many of that style have effectively _no_ gap to put a tool into, and there's no 'invitation' anywhere around it. And some of _those_ are _very_ tight.
The trick is to bring enough controlled pressure to bear on a sharp edge on the exact joint between the case and back, and do it at a useful angle without marring the watch.
I say 'controlled' because when the back lets go, it goes completely and the tool will happily scrape across the back of the movement and the exposed coil.
On a scale of 1 to 10 that's BAD.

I've made some special hand tools that safely let me into about 99% of the SA's that I see, but that 1% is still out there. Those have to go back to SA. There aren't many that can get into a pry-back that I can't. Not without elaborate specialty tooling anyway.

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[Steve]

Thanx, but i think to made it sound too simple. I broke my favorite
knife, bent three screwdrivers and nearly lost an eye. Got it fixed
though. Thanks.