WTF Happened here

[icoopernicus]

This is a photograph of my Tissot PRS 516 chronograph. I looked at it today and noticed the time was off, then I looked closer and I could see why. The minute hand has been bent, approximately 85degrees anti-clockwise which left me wonder a combination of WTF & HTH?

Has anyone out there ever experienced anything like this before?

I plan on repairing this myself and hopefully this won't be a problem. I'll start sourcing parts as soon as I can.

[FDG]

Dafuq?

[PeteM]

Its a Uri Geller moment .....

You should go on the stage mate

[FxrAndy]

WTF

I have no idea how that could happen

If you had dropped it hard enough then maybe but there would be more to see than just the hand being bent if you had dropped it that hard.

[Utheman]

I bet it was installed that way.

[Adeodatus]

Probably the hand is too close to the hour hand and a bit loose, so when it passed over, probably at the point that all hands were aligned, the minute hand got twisted. Nevertheless, definitely a WTF moment

Edited July 11, 2012 by Adeodatus

[icoopernicus]

I was playing with the dog last night, a little rough, I think it could have slipped and caught on the hour hand and then bound up. It definitely was not installed that way, I have owned this watch for over a year now, this is definitely new.

I hope I can get new hands from Tissot, shouldn't be too hard, not like sourcing gen parts from some of the higher end brands.

[redwatch]

Wow.... that's some impressive damage!! And even if it got caught up on the hour hand, I cannot believe the main spring is strong enough to drive that much force through the gear train to cause the hand to bend that much. I had a watch that had a hand getting caught up but every time it got caught, the movement just stopped.

[cougar1]

Contact Tissot, and tell them you operate the Large Hadron Collider at the weekends, and you are not impressed with the performance of their watches, tell them you'd be happy to test out the performance of a free moonwatch in it's place!

[Jkay]

If it was caught on the hour hand, would not that hand be damaged as well.

My thought is while you were bounding around with the dog, the minute hand flexed and was caught on one of those floating hour markers until it became short enough (through bending) to be released.

[japanic]

I had a similar situation with a rep GMT Master, I took the hands and dial off to install a better datewheel, and I had set the gmt hand too low and it caught one of hour markers; the bending was nearly identical.