My T17 movement watch stops running after a minute

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Hi! Looking for some watchmaking opinions since I'm afraid I messed it up. 🤦

I just received a watch with a T17 movement. It was running fine until I decided to demagnetize it. I have one of these cheap demagnetizers and whenever I buy a vintage watch I do a pass or two just to make sure that the watch is not magnetized. It was fully wound before I did the pass. Immediately the watch stopped working. If I shake it very gently it starts running again very fast for like a full minute rotation and then the seconds hand stops again at around the same position as before. Shaking gently will repeat the process. I'll take it to a watchmaker when I get a chance to find what's wrong but until then it's gonna bug me.

Do you think this somehow broke something irreversibly in the movement? Thank you for your comments 😀
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Demagnetizers are very effective at de-magnetizing watches, but they are equally effective at magnetizing them. After presenting the watch to the de-magnetizer, continue to held the ON button down and slowly withdraw the watch straight away for the demagnetizer! Some folks recommend that when the watch is 18 inches to 2 feet away from the de-magnetizer, that you “blip” the ON button off, then on, then off again. Try it and see what happens.
 
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Thank you! After a few multiple passes trying your suggested way to de-magnetize the watch finally did the trick. Now it's running normally again. I never had a watch stopping before when using the de-magnetizer so I kinda freaked out that I broke something. Thanks again 😀