WHY WON'T IT WORK????

[jimbob2154]

There is a watch listed for auction on EBAY and in the description it says that "...watch doesn't work...". I just can't figure out why. Take a look and see if anyone knows, by looking at the pictures, why this watch just won't work. :confused: jimbob (:{
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10299&item=4110476173&rd=1

[jimbob2154]

There is a watch listed for auction on EBAY and in the description it says that "...watch doesn't work...". I just can't figure out why. Take a look and see if anyone knows, by looking at the pictures, why this watch just won't work. :confused: jimbob (:{
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10299&item=4110476173&rd=1

[doug sinclair]

Jimbob,

My guess is that the seconds hand is catching on the hour hand (hee hee)!

[Samuel Goldstein]

Isn't that space where the battery goes.

[jimbob2154]

Nawww!!! A "D" cell wouldn't fit in that tiny little space. jimbob (:{

[Sheila Gilbert]

I know nothing about what makes watches work, but I am quite sure that, if that thing on the left is the main spring, it shouldn't be THERE.

When it says it doesn't work, it doesn't work, so you gotta get it fixed!
Good luck,
Sheila

[Paul FM TX]

mmmmmmmmmmm... appears to me the balance wheel and hairspring are slightly off center... ;-)

[jimbob2154]

NOPE!!!! I GOT IT FIGURED OUT!!!! It was nuclear powered!!! They had a malfunction in the cooling system and the nuclear core overheated and melted thru the bottom of the watch, kind of like the "China Syndrome" thing!!! What? You don't believe me? Look right in the middle of the big open space on the left side and you can see the hole that it melted thru!! Anybody wanna argue with that? jimbob (:{

[Smudgy]

I hadn't realized there were so many jewels in a railroad pocketwatch! :eek:

[BrianC]

Looks like it may need to be dunked in an oil bath, straightend out in a vise, a new hairspring and then regulated.
Brian C. :smile: :wink:

[jimbob2154]

You know, almost all these ideas and suggestions would probably work, but I will have to go along with what my dear old departed grandpa (just passed away at 102 years young) would have most likely said. He would have taken a long look, took a couple of chews on his "Day's o' Work" chewing tobacco, spit, and said: "Well, Jim, the best thing for this watch is pitchin'!" :biggrin: "Pitchin', what is that grandpa?" "Pitchin' in the #@$*&~%!! trash can!!" jimbob (:{

[GD1]

It must be civil service related. They usually don't.

[rrpktwtchr]

GD1....

Smile, when you say that, Podner !! :biggrin: :wink:

[Tom Huber]

Having been a lifetime civil servant, I guess I can poke fun. The story has always been that civil servants are like the missiles at Redstone arsenal--won't work and you can't fire them.