Mike on a bike Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Well somebody knew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droptopman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Too late she is now is pieces but appreciate the help. Getting ready to try Matt's suggestion not on the watch of course but on myself. With that I can skip my morning coffee and cigar, should get me wide awake and ready for the day. I did learn one thing. I will probably need to send my watches out for service, I do not have the eyes, skilled hands or patience.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 "I do not have the eyes, skilled hands or patience.... " you and me both, ten thumbs and blind as a bat is not a good skill set to work on watches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpz5142 Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Honestly can probably get a replacement quartz movement for decent price and just replace it and salvage the watch. If you can figure out which movement the watch had just look on Ofrei Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droptopman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Thanks jpz, may try that just for fun. Watch is like new. Think I paid $250 for that thing. Impulse buy on vacation. I wear a lot of the TB silk camp shirts so I bought 3 of those watches to wear with "resort wear" and sandals. Of course long before I found this place. Now only Rollies. At the end of the day, I never really wore any of them. Always wore my gen Sub or DJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggle42 Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 I once had a quarts digital watch. After pulling to bits out of curiosity and putting it back together, the numbers were like an alien alphabet, they weren't numbers at all. Rather than dismantle it and try to fix it, I could still see that the second digits were changing once a second, and the minutes once a minute, so knew it was just the digits garbled. So I worked out what garbled number meant really, and once I knew that I could read the time, so I kept it and wore it for years. I could tell the time as fast as reading a normal digital watch, it was fun when someone asked me for the time and I showed it to them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronoluvvv Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 bent stator ? wow, who knew ... great info nonetheless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 You could have just carried a little mirror around to look at it .......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 Bent stator my a** it was aliens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Bent stator my a** it was aliens! Mike, good thing you had the word "stator" between "Bent" and "my a**".. Folks might get the wrong idea if otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iixxboredumxxii Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 If you haven't figured out the reason is it could be from the rotor bridge. If that gets out of shape it could make the rotor go backwards rather then the normal way. I have seen this when working on the backwards goofy watch. If I switch the positions of the rotor bridge it will go forwards rather than backwards. That can possibly be your reason. If you dropped the watch hard enough to get that part out of shape. I have seen that once in the last 7 years. That this has occurred and it was on the same movement. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjfesq Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 You need a new flux capacitor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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