What time do you wear?

Do you wear your watch on your hammer hand? Either way, an automatic watch has a mainspring which is designed to slip back after full wind-up. That is why you can manually wind an automatic for ever, it never gets to the end of the mainspring. As to "overwinding" a manual wind will come to the end, and especially older versions say 1960 or earlier, which had blued-steel mainsprings, are more prone to breakage when slightly pushed further when at end. Or at least they will be force of the connection at either end, termed "un-hooked". As to your watch running a few hours fast, only one thing can cause this phenomenon. The hairspring or balance spring is in charge of fast or slow. It is a flat coiled or spiraled spring. Above and below it are the balance jewels which hold a small bit of oil. A very hard knock "can" dislodge oil out onto the spring, which while coiling and uncoiling can make to (or more) coils stick together hence shortening the "working" length. Shorter spring-quicker opening and closing. The coils on your watch happened to free themselves after running a while. Keep up the good "Exploring" :)

as you can guess i,m a bit messed up. left and right handed but not ambidextrious. ??? so have to wear watch on right wrist or will trip over feet. throw left but hammer right so it's difficult to protect instruments and i,m not taking it off. ha. thanks for the info. always trying to learn.

Yes Hotmailjbc, you are indeed a bit messed up, as are many of the other fine members here. Me..? I'm very fortunate as being still in denial of any human weaknesses'. You hammer here, throw there, watch over here....you are just plain unpredictable, good thing. Messed up?, good! Once we self realize our own human frailties, we are over the hurdle and can go on to any greatness!!! I suggest researching this News story yesterday, as of this writing: Manhatten, Actor, Tom Magill,suicide attempt. Jumped from 40th story, landed on Dodge automobile, broken leg. He is given a second chance, and I hope he does good! Im also working toward becoming imperfect one day!!

must have landed on a new dodge that absorbed the fall. the old dodges of a more "robust" fabrication would have caused a bit more damage. 40 stories? wow. i would have fainted standing on the ledge. did he have a watch on his wrist? john cameron swaze would have made a timex add out of this one.....and it keeps on ticking!!!

A favorite joke......When someone asks me the time....I reply (example): " it's ten after". They then ask, "ten after what"? I say, " well,.. the hour hand had broken off my watch and I hadnt gotten around to fixing it yet,...but its ten after something"! Sometimes they just give me a strange look....