Why won't my wife's watches work?
Whenever my wife wears a wholly-mechanical watch it stops, now matter how much or how little I paid for it. It then performs perfectly on me or on the shelf.
But quartz watches work fine on her, which seems to indicate that she has some effect on the hair-spring escapement of a mechanical watch. What can this influence be?
Have other people experienced this? If so, have they an explanation? I don't mean a vague one like "Well you see, it's the electricity from her body…" to which I am bound to ask "What electricity? How can it stop a hairspring? Does it magnetise alternate spirals so that they stick together? If so, how? Why doesn't it happen with everyone?" and so on…
Any offers?
chakka35 Wed 07/05/08 15:48
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No, mib, she doesn't stop clocks. There was, though, an occasion at Cowes when there were a thousand vessels in the harbour, which all mysteriously launched themselves when she looked at them.
Robb, I don't think you can be serious. How could acid get through the watch casing? And why would the watch immediately resume working once off her wrist?
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Quotes by ME:
IF the watch completely stops working I have a theory: ...........................Sadly it doesn't :-(
Sadly people also don't read properly these days.
IF it had completely stopped then unless the back is made of stainless steel acid would eat through the casing.Some people have this problem.
Tried what I had suggested yet??????
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Oh don't be silly, Robb. I made it clear from the beginnning that the watch worked on me and on the shelf.
And do you think that I wouldn't have noticed corrosion? Imagine it...
"Dear AB, my wife's watch, after months on her wrist, is corroded by some sort of acid. It now doesn't work. Can there be a connection?"
This is the Science site. Let's not descend to the idiocy of the R&S.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!READ MY QUOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you think this means:
"IF the watch completely stops working I have a theory: ...........................Sadly it doesn't "
It MEANS I Disapproved of my own theory, in the next consecutive post itself.
People NEVER read nowadays.
btw did you follow what I had suggested:
1. Trying it on the OTHER hand
2. Putting an adhesive tape on the BACK of the WATCH.
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How many posts will it take to make myself clear?
Are people that busy nowadays? Don't they have enough time to even read just 2 lines properly?
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Robb, calm down. Yes, I read: I learnt to read when I was two.
I said that I would try your two suggestions, but my wife happens to be away at the moment and I need to find a mechanical watch for when she gets back.
It'll have to be my original, first generation, Rolex Oyster which she normally refuses to wear because it's so valuable. But after I show her the hard time you are giving me she'll probably relent.
So I'll report back in due course. Meanwhile let's stick to the facts and form theories, if we can, on those facts.
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Ah finally you read,
btw
who gave whom a hard time ?
Who posted 2 times questioning the applicability of a theory which i myself said was inapplicable in this case at the next post below the theory?
Waiting for the "experiment". :-D
Sorry if I sounded harsh.
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oooooooops
bloody hypocrite ain't I
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