And into your deep pile rug where you will be unable to find it. Or better
yet the spring bar will fall apart from corrosion and the spring and ends
will go flying.

This brings us to one of the #1 problems in watchmaking which just
emphasizes what a bitch it is to work on a watch. The parts are really
really tiny and once they fall off your bench (or go flying off under spring
pressure or propelled by your tweezers) it is hell to find them again.
Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle where all the second socks are, there are
piles of watch parts that have disappeared.

"Frank Adam" wrote in message
...

It [the springbar] will probably fall out of the band as it clears the
case.


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