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Hello from Nashville TN!!! I’m new to the watch repair world, but I’m nerdy and loving it! I’m helping a friend out and repairing his old Benrus Square Rigger. Basically the crown was damaged (the internal pipe was bent badly…I tried to straighten it and it broke.) Anyways, I’ve learned a lot about this watch but I need some help it’s a split stem system and I was able to source the correct stem. What I know so far. It’s a split stem, male side screws into the crown. 5mm crown. Tap 9. 2mm tube on the case. I bought a random lot of vintage crowns and was able to make one of them work. It’s the crown on the left side in the pic. The problem is, I need a gold one! I need to find a crown with a recessed “pipe.” The gold one on the right, that has a flush pipe will not work…regardless of how much you trim the stem. It’s has to be recessed like the steel one. I’m just not sure how to search for that!

Hi, Need some advice. I was trying to push back the split stem into the movement after replacing battery, the split stem (male side) has snapped, think I must have done it incorrectly. Hence I bought a replacement stem (for ETA926.301) from Cousins, but I found the replacement stem is slightly different from the original one, there is a piece of round metal at the top of the male stem (pic with red circle) which is different from original one. The round tip seems to be too thick to push into the female stem. I don't want to repeat my mistake again ny snapping it. Just wanna to check a correct way to fit a split stem into the movement, should I just push in with force at the right angle? Or pre-engage (slide in first) the male stem with the female stem, then push into the movement? Is this tip (red circle in picture) normal? or should it be filed down to fit the female stem? Your advice is much appreciated. Learn a lot from this forum indeed.