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Title: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 12:33:18 PM: If you guys happened to experience catastrophic mechanical failures of your timepieces, do share.....
Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 12:34:59 PM: Here's something that happened to me a few weeks ago. Broken crown stem....

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Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: Cocas on September 11, 2017, 12:45:40 PM: This is serious. You dropped your watch onto the ground with the crown facing downward and hit the floor? :Startled:
Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 06:40:28 PM: Quote from: Cocas on September 11, 2017, 12:45:40 PM
This is serious. You dropped your watch onto the ground with the crown facing downward and hit the floor? :Startled:
I hit the crown directly against the corner of a tiled wall while wearing it. Sheared the crown straight off.

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Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: Cocas on September 11, 2017, 06:56:14 PM: Quote from: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 06:40:28 PM
Quote from: Cocas on September 11, 2017, 12:45:40 PM
This is serious. You dropped your watch onto the ground with the crown facing downward and hit the floor? :Startled:
I hit the crown directly against the corner of a tiled wall while wearing it. Sheared the crown straight off.

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:)
Hope your Aristo pilot watch "recover" soon.
Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 07:10:33 PM: Unfortunately can't get a similar style crown. The replacement will be different...

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Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: ck77 on September 11, 2017, 07:50:41 PM: Quote from: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 07:10:33 PM
Unfortunately can't get a similar style crown. The replacement will be different...

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Can't source the part from the manufacturer?

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Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: meoramri on September 11, 2017, 08:31:26 PM: Got the watch via gnomon years ago. They no longer carry the brand. Been trying to contact Aristo directly but no reply.

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Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: phat7 on September 12, 2017, 09:54:12 AM: I fee you bro. It happened to me twice and the same god damn watch. First time dropped in airport and second time at home after repair.
Title: Re: Catastrophic Mechanical Failures
Post by: bloodlegion on September 25, 2017, 01:31:59 PM: This is why I'm super careful with all my watches, including my cheap ones (heck, all of my watches are cheap).

I also use Nato straps almost exclusively because the spring bar is often the weakest link, it fails before any mechanical part of the watch, I believe.