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I recieved a broken watch from a friend to try to fix it. The hands had fallen off so I pushed them backed on and changed battery. It all worked at first but I took the movement out to remove dust. When I put the stem in again it won’t move at all. Is it possible that I broke the thing that the stem attaches to inside the movement?

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Unlikely unless you used a lot of force.

Does the stem come out? Is it intact? Does it go all the way in? How are you inserting it, need to push release?

May have to remove hands and dial to look into it.

Good luck.




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The stem does come out. It is intact and goes all the way in. I am inserting it by pushing it in, turning it and pushing once again. 

Thanks for the answer! Will try to remove hands and dial.

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Yep. If stem is intact then chances are that something in the setting mechanism got dislodged.

Only way to know is removing dial and assessing.

Good luck




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11 hours ago, watchnoob said:

Will try to remove hands and dial.

Not so fast, beside even with dial removed you can't inspect or access anything useful. If you can set time/date the yoke / setting is not dislodged and all good.

Now, most modern quartz modules have a power saving feature that cuts battery when the stem is pulled. If your is of that type, then it's possible (but not said) that the tip of the stem fails to make contact for that. But if it's not, then the module must have failed another way, e.g. coil damaged while handling.

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