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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 179903, member: 25&quot;]Clearly it has come unstuck to some extent. Just keep restarting it and after a while it will run the full spring length, 30 hours, or somewhere near. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless a watch has been dropped and the balance staff broken, or it has been messed about with at some stage, non working old watches are almost always that way due to gumming up of old oil. It&#039;s no miracle that my suggestion semi-fixed it. However, I am always happy to take excessive credit. It&#039;s what my bank always used to complain about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do not attempt to move the hour hand yourself unless you are really good at delicate stuff. It is a push fit on the cannon pinion, so will move but will also break if not done properly, ideally with a tiny special tweezer that grips the central portion of the hand. Moving the minute hand will have the same effect, but with the same warnings. If it is tolerable leave it alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would need cleaning, but as already mentioned this is likely to cost more than the watch is worth nowadays.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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