The crown on my Breitling B-1 is stuck, it doesn't pull out anymore (to the so-called position 2) to set the time/date. Turning the crown for changing functions and pushing it for backlighting the digital displays still work fine.
I replaced the battery on my B-1 myself a few months ago. To save money, because battery changes are a notorious rip-off, but also because I enjoy repairing things. Piece of cake, after looking at this great forum and other places. Sure, I don't trust the water-proofing anymore (even though I applied some silicon gel to the gasket), but then again I didn't trust the original 50m "splash-proof" either. After changing the battery I was able to set the time as always by pulling out the crown. All well until the other day, when we moved to daylight savings and I wanted to adjust my watch. All of a sudden the crown didn't pull out anymore...
I looked all over the internet but I couldn't find anything on this issue. I re-opened the watch and examined the crown, but no solution there either. I found the little release button for the crown-stem, cleaned the stem and re-inserted it, but again no change.
Before throwing in the towel and bringing it into an official Breitling service point, I figured I'd ask the experts: Does anyone on this forum know what might be the issue? Or better still, how to resolve it?? Thank you very much for any help!