I need to have a crystal put into an 0 size C.W.C.Co. coin silver hunter case, and I need it done quickly (as in, it is a Christmas present for my fiancee, and last year I chose her gift so badly, it has cost me a year of gifts for every holiday of every known religion and a few I think she made up). Any recommendations on who could do this quickly and well?

Hello Randal,

Try this link....

www.Abellwatchmakers.com

Regards,
Jerry

Thanks to you both.
This video pretty much captures what I have been up against...
http://bewareofthedoghouse.com/video.aspx
[click on the projector]

Consider yourselves warned.

Thanks again!!

Do you really think a "wind up" "old" watch will get you out of the doghouse? Beware my friend!

Yeah, she's really into antiques AND mechanical stuff--has an engineering degree. AND she has been laying down heavy hints about the pendant watch she used to have that she sure would like to replace. Finally, she was ga-ga over a coin silver case with multi-colored gold inlays on a pocket watch we saw. So....I have found a fairly rare, higher-end Elgin movement that is running great, and a nice coin silver case with multi-colored gold inlays. Throw in some CD's of her favorite music as stocking stuffers (and a lot of grovelling), and I think I might be okay.

Hey Randal,
Please tell me you didn't give her a toaster last year for Christmas!!!!

Jerry

We men are naive. I once gave my wife a shovel for Mothers Day (really), and gave her a lunch bucket for her birthday. I don't think she liked either one! She acted kind of "distant". The diamond solitaire pendant seemed to go over better. She needed a shovel for yard work, and the lunch bucket enabled her to pack a lunch rather than go out every day. She didn't see it my way in either case. I felt like I researched and recognized a need in the first two---really put some thought in it. The diamond was a no-brainer!

Mike

Mike,

I hear you.

Still. You better hope that your wife never finds the location of that doghouse !

My wife is also a degree holding industrial engineer. Several years ago my late father gave her a hand held sledge hammer. No real rhyme or reason for it.

It's one of her favorite things she's received for Christmas, as she still uses it every year pounding tomato stakes in the garden. She calls it 'the weapon'.

Don't believe everything those marketing departments are trying to feed ya, boys. The ladies have as many oddball interests as we do. My wife HATES that commercial, the fact be known.

Regards! Mark

I remember one Christmas many, many years ago when my dad gave my mom a brand new plastic 30 gallon garbage can as a gift as she was constanly complaining how abusive the trash men were with the metal one we had. My dad viewed it as a joke but mom failed to see the humor in it at all. Had she the choice, he would have been sent to the "doghouse" with no chance for parole. He would still admit to the day he died that was the dumbest thing he ever did.

Steve

Jerry--
To answer your question, NO, not a toaster. Besides the music CD's, I got her, from Brookstone, a rechargeable portable compressor with which to inflate the tires in the wheelchair she uses to get around. We were always having to go out in the driveway to my car to get out my 12-volt plug-in-the-lighter-socket compressor to air her up, and I thought she would like having the relatively small hand-held compressor. WRONG! I think she interpreted it as an expression of a desire on my part to not have to bother with her tires any more (not true). To make matters worse, the #%*@ thing didn't work right and I had to return it. I have bought a lot of jewelry since then.