Been a while since I've been here. Just had the subject watch come in with the minute hand floating around inside the crystal. When I removed the case back, the contact spring fell out. Customer said he dropped the watch and the minute hand came off. Apparently, he or someone else tried to solder the contact spring onto the circuit board. it probably held until the case back was pressed on. i epoxied the spring on in the proper place and removed the hour hand. I went through the hand installation procedure in the tech sheet. The digital display sets fine but the hands do not. The movement is haphazard at best. I really don't want to tear this one down to see what happened from the impact.
I hate quartz watches! It is almost impossible to keep stuff off the rotor.
Anyone seen this problem before? If so, how did you fix it.
Thanks in advance if you can put me on the right path.
