Gents,

My cat seems to disapprove of my taste in watches and knocked my 30T2 off my bedside table and it has now stopped. When I wind it, it runs for a couple of seconds and it stops again. Since it was due for a regular service, I'm only partially mortified, but any guesses on why it stopped running? Broken mainspring, maybe?

 

Probably broken pivot on some of the wheels? Escape wheel is my guess? But i think the mainspring is okey . Usually brake when winding the watch.

 

Ouch! Hope it is a relatively easy fix.

 

Time for a new cat?

 

If we are speculating that something has broken, my guess would be a broken balance staff actually (in particular if this one is old enough to have a non-shock protected balance). Given the small mass of the escape wheel in relation to pivot diameter, a broken escape wheel pivot would be much less likely I think.

Of course a broken mainspring is the easiest thing to test - just wind the watch and if it comes to stop as normal, the spring isn't broken. Unless it's an old blued steel mainspring, the fall should not have caused damaged to the mainspring.

But there are other possibilities that are less drastic to repair. One would be hands getting bent from the fall and jamming, but that should be easily visible. The other less visible one would be the dial feet are bent from the impact, and the dial has shifted relative to the movement and is binding on the hour wheel, stopping the watch. It could even be a tangled balance spring - caught on the stud or regulator for example.

Cheers, Al

 

My vote would be no cat...

 

Don't cats basically dislike everything, except feeding time?

 

Had this mug since I was 17 or 18 I think...kinda sums up my feelings for cats generally...How to teach your cat to swim...

 

But but but.... Cats are essential to the operation of the interweb. Facebook in particular.

 

Thanks, Al!

 

BTW, that's the feline in question:

 

A fit of anger, perhaps?

I found mine sitting on the velour interior of my watch-box the other day...



I caught her with her paws almost on the smallest one....
By the look on her face, she knew she was in 'hot water'!

Perhaps these are the beginnings of a feline conspiracy !!

 

I knew there was another reason why there are no cats around the house...

 

Looks a bit grumpy!

Too bad that meme already sailed.

 

Remember guys - cats are assholes.

Yet another catastrophe.

 

Looks who's calling the kettle black, eh pot?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

You're right, of course. I'm about to clean this one's puke off my floor (even though she tried to deposit on the carpet, that little asshole)...

 

Oh, definitely! I'm from Philadelphia and live in NJ so I'm fluent in asshole. Even though it's a second language, some people believe it's my native tongue.

 

We can make a rich broth with that naughty cat