I sent this watch to a guy in N.D. for a COA and now it - well, I think something is really amiss...

He said he use to work as a DJ at a night club and use to spin records or something...

Any thoughts???

Maybe a close up will figure this one out - I am stumped here...

lol Jon. I think you have a rare helical hairspring illinois there. I hadn't seen one before, but now I have! a little bit of adjustment on that spring and she will be as good as new! BTW, I didn't know you had any friends in North Dakota, let alone a repairman

Jon may have friends in N.D. but it for sure he doesn't have a repairman there.... ....

Regards,

Jerry

Wow! Looks like he let his cat play with it! Brad

Yeppers...

This one was in with a few other "non-running" movements and I was laughing at the current condition of the hairspring and thought it might be good for world-wide laugh...

Good grief. I hope you didn't pay the guy.

Next time send your stuff to our own Chris Abell in Texas; Roger Nolfe here in Noo Yahk does excellent work also.

Eric,

I was poking fun at someone from N.D. and he had the 1st reply...

Can you guess who I am messing with?

Heads up Mid-westerners! April Fools Day jokes are supposed to be posted on 1 April . . . like when I show off my REEL BIG RAILROAD WATCH!

Easy David - or I will send you that hairspring as a challenge

Is that a Big Ben Westclox attached to your belt loop ???

Yep, I carry it on my belt when I am taking the long walk back to the caboose where I can stoke the stove, kick back and set the alarm to wake me up for the next stop. Gotta be "on time" ya know!

They is reel EAZY to set time when ya forgit to wind em. You set the watch when you pass thru a town fur that town schedule time! THATS WHY these are called RAILROAD watches! YA Know.

Try demagnetizing it.

adjusting the time on that one could be tricky.

I think he cleaned it in a Quarter Car Wash !!!

Methinks that he just wound the watch "backwards" right!

I hate to admit it but when I was 9 years old I took apart my newly inherited 18s Hamilton and thought it needed some help so I stuck my dads paper clip into the little springy thing and made a few other adjustments that did not go over well with my folks. My mom and I visited a jeweler on State Street in Springfield Mass. so I could explain what I did and she could pay to fix it. But hey I have loved pocket watches ever since!