Breitling Hercules 246/GRY/PROF "watch wound tight run" Questions

watch thats wound too tight Well, you begin with the correct premise. Your watch isn't wound too tight. It just isn't running so you made the 'assumption' it was because it is fully wound. Your actual

wind. Wound too tight. How do you fix a watch that is wound too tight? The best solution is to lightly tap on the watch, this will keep it running until the spring is unwound enough to run on it's own

...wound too tight, unless it is wound so hard that the mainspring breaks, in which case the spring becomes completely unwound and will not wind up again. What has actually happened is that the clock is ...

watch cannot be wound further. In my experience, watches usually stop running due to dirt at the pivots or on one or more gear teeth. I generally see overbanking in older watches or mechanical watches