Internet Horology Club 185
Can Heat Activate Movement?

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February 05, 2004, 14:00
Stephanie O'Neil
Can Heat Activate Movement?
Recently I read in an ebay listing "the watch starts to run and keeps going if the case is slightly warm, when I got it I thought it was not running, but left on a sunlit windowsill it started to run."

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The watch is an English fusee movement, circa 1852.

Can heat activate movement?

Stephanie O'Neil
NAWCC Member 143979
February 05, 2004, 16:55
Aaron Bereiter
Maybe if the oil is old and a little bit on the thick side. It may heat up a little and begin to run although I would imagine pretty slowly.

Aaron

February 05, 2004, 17:44
Lindell V. Riddle

A lot of re-sellers heat watches by placing them over a gas range pilot light or the use of a hair-dryer to as Aaron said soften the old lubricants. This allows the seller to say in all honesty the watch is at least in running condition.

I tried this on a watch stored for a long time dial-up and not running. Turned it dial-down and heated it a bit. The watch then runs. I'ts no cure, but just as a sunny day warms us and gets us moving the same is true of a lazy old watch!

Wink
February 06, 2004, 02:49
Jack Goldstein
Its also a good way to get hairlines. Some people will always take things to the limit! I can see it now, holding the watch on a stick, like a hotdog, and holding it over the stove, "but it was only low heat"!!! Whats next, the microwave Big Grin????????????

Jack Goldstein
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IHC 185 #274
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February 07, 2004, 11:52
Stephanie O'Neil
Aaron, thanks for your opinion.

Lindell,
Talk about learn something new and different everyday!
Thanks

Jack G. Big Grin

Stephanie O'Neil
NAWCC Member 143979