Best place to find shells?

Hello!

Have very little background knowledge of pocket watches, between styles, brands, and where to find them, but love the style of pocket watches.

Basically though, I’m working on an embedded device project, where I’m trying to turn a pocket watch into a smart watch.

A few specs:

- Ideally a Hunter-Case (I think that’s what it’s called? With the the shell that closes?)

- PCB is ~14 mm thick

- Diameter of ~1.8 inches- Display id like to use is 1.75 inches in diameter (44.44 mm). However there are also incremental options all the way down to 1.2 inches (30 mm)

So I’m trying to find a watch I can use that fits the criteria but I’m not sure where best to do so, as the best I can seem to find is full on watches new and used.

tl;dr - looking for advice on finding pocket watch shells

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