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I think I know the answer to this question already, but wanted to check with those more experienced than me. I have worked on a few watches of late with the hair spring formed (or did formed) as in the photo below. I usually straighten them into the regular hairspring form, but it just dawned on me maybe they should be like this? Could anyone please confirm that this formation isn’t normal?

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I can't imagine that's anywhere near normal, I agree with [mention=1848]rodabod[/mention], needs work...

Thanks for confirming guys. I had very strong suspicion it wasn’t supposed to be like that, and thanks for suggesting how it probably happened. Ironically I’ve seen 3 like this in a short period of time and just had a niggle that maybe it was by design. Once again for clarifying. Kind regards Deggsie


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