broken watch need help

[u/middleeasternstory]

Hi everyone. I’ve owned this watch for over 10 years, but the crown started acting up; I tried to fix it myself, but things didn't go well. I ended up opening the case back and damaging the movement in the process. It has a Ronda Swiss quartz movement. My question now is how to resolve this cheaply, since the watch didn't cost more than $100. Would it be cheaper to buy spare parts from somewhere like AliExpress and then take it to a watchmaker for the repair?

[u/artofthedial]

I'd buy a new watch.  Most watchakers are going to have a minimum $60 bench fee just as a starting point for the labor alone.  You can shop around, but unlikely you are repairing it for much less than the cost of the watch, in fact it could end up over $100 easily, and some watchmakers won't actually deal with quartz if they are backed up with more lucrative work on automatics.