Sunday, 24 February 2008

Mystery of the broken watch

Sounds interesting, eh? Well, it's about me fixing my own watch that has been broken for three whole years.
I sat there, staring at my broken watch. What if I took it all apart and took out the microchip, I thought. After all, I collected microchips and study them. I jumped off my chair and came back a second later. Puffing and sweating ( I sweat a lot), I took my mini screwdriver and started unscrewing my old watch. After I took it apart, it looked like this: .

The microchip was more complicated than I thought. Have a look at it: . Oh well, I'll just keep it and have a look at it some day, but I still have to put it back into my watch and put it back together (that was my main mission).
The watch has almost been put together. I'm just inserting the screen on the watch and then I've completed my mission. I don't expect it to work, because I know that steam seeped into the watch and blew the connections. When the screen is on the watch and the back cover in screwed on, the most amazing thing happened.
I can't believe it. I just simply can't. Guess what?? THE WATCH CAME BACK TO LIFE!!! It was working when there was 1 x 10 -26 (standard form)% chance. You know, it's hard to believe something that had almost no chance of happening. Here is a picture to be my evidence and to show you all:
I understand if some of you don't believe me. It's just the buttons that won't operate, because I'm no super-brainy technician. It's a huge mystery to me. I can't understand how a watch that has been broken for more than three years can suddenly work again. By the way, the watch's no use now. I can take the microchip out anyday I want, put it in and make the watches buttons operate smoothly again! (just joking)!
:-)

3 comments:

  1. Marshall, this is an AWESOME post. very cool. great experience, well shared, excellent writing, and well done imbedding real photos of your work.
    you are the MAN!

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  2. Nice work!! I wouldn't be able to pull a watch apart and then put it back together again! You are BRAINY!

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  3. You are very talented, my friend. You should put the force inside you to greater use ^_^

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