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Hi everyone! I've heard a lot of people talking about hack features but I've never actually known what it it,any answers would be appreciated  .Thanking you in advance Francesco | ||
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Francesco, The hack feature stops the second hand. I believe it originated for military watches to allow syncronizing watches. Evan | |||
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it's the ability to stop the seconds hand in order to sync the watch with other watch once the stem is pull out . | |||
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When you pull up on the stem to set the watch, a small wire is engaged and pushed into the balance wheel to stop it from moving. | |||
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Here's the wire in "brake released" mode on a 4992B:  | |||
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I had the same question but then I seen this youtude video of the hack in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aly1D3bhXV0 | ||||
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