From experience, a watch that needs a bloody good service. Its stopped working, been wound and still doesn't work.

 

I've heard and read the term "overwound" when describing a watch on fleabay for example, can a watch be overwound or is this term a misnomer and something else is wrong with the watch? If it is overwound, can it be fixed? Thanks!

From experience, a watch that needs a bloody good service. Its stopped working, been wound and still doesn't work.

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... or needs a new battery.

 

Wot Feenix and Hawkeye have both said :yes:!

Something is preventing the watch from "unwinding" = "working" and this could be sh*te, muck and bullets in the mechanism somewheres, or the seller knows damn fine he dropped it and broke the balance staff, but gets away with posting it on the bay as "overwound", you buy it as that.

It MAY just need a clean and oil, but it WILL at the least need a clean and oil to find out if there's much else wrong with it. :lookaround:

 

Thanks for that gents, so basically it could be several things? I'll stay away from those then!

 

surely a watch can be overwound ? but there are other problems but a watch can be wound to the maximum

 

Yeah...

When using for long time with no servicing big alarm clocks or big clocks driven by mainsprings, usually comes a time, when they will start to stop when fully wound but run when wound partially. When fully wound and stopped, start them by shaking or so several times, untill the spring unwinds a little, and here they run again... If the owner doesnt wind the spring to the end, the watch can be used for some more time. For this kind of situation is valid the term 'owerwound'. But yes, this is not normal for a watch to be able to be owerwound, this will mean something is wrong with the watch.

 

Yeah...

When using for long time with no servicing big alarm clocks or big clocks driven by mainsprings, usually comes a time, when they will start to stop when fully wound but run when wound partially. When fully wound and stopped, start them by shaking or so several times, untill the spring unwinds a little, and here they run again... If the owner doesnt wind the spring to the end, the watch can be used for some more time. For this kind of situation is valid the term 'owerwound'. But yes, this is not normal for a watch to be able to be owerwound, this will mean something is wrong with the watch.

They might not get your reply as this was 11 years ago :mad0218:

 

Yes, but somehow this old questions with no best answer apear on top of the heap. Why is that, if no answer is needed?

 

It has an excellent answer now, thank you :thumbsup: