Demagnitizing

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Glad it wasn't anything major. Excellent looking watch.

I suspect one of my watches became magnetized when I held it close to my monitor screen while setting the time by the NIST site clock. trying to synchronize the second hand, It suddenly gained three seconds in one hour, its normally dead on.
I used my Chinese blue box on it and it immediately settled down.
Back to less than one second + per day I hope.

Not sure if the monitor caused this or the speakers on each side.

I think this was more of an issue in CRT days.
 
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Just an update- it appears @Canuck was on the money- the hairspring was hung up. My buddy (not a watchmmaker) just straitened it out, did nothing else, and it was keeping time on his bench.