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N_Cook wrote:
> Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
> news:t3qr855hpfsem99a9m1bc819hop6easg70@4ax.com...
>> My father gave me his gold watch, a 25 year old Omega analogue quartz.
>> It had been lying idle in his drawer with the time-setting pin
>> disengaged. After re-engaging the pin, the hands began advancing at 4
>> times the normal rate. After 1 hour it has gained 3 hours. I assume
>> the crystal is oscillating at a higher overtone, maybe due to a weak
>> battery.
>>
>> In any case I now have a watch to match the reverse Dick Smith wall
>> clock above my desk. Maybe I should start collecting misbehaving
>> timepieces.
>>
>> - Franc Zabkar
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> 
> I (in the UK) once had to repair a bedside clock radio that was running hot
> and running slow. It was actually made for the USA and 110V / 60Hz that
> someone had put a UK plug on the mains cable. Not burnt up running at 240V
> but the 50Hz meant it was losing exactly 10 minutes an hour.
> 
> My local has a few disguised clocks including a reverse one. I though about
> making one with a pointy-tooth eliptical gear and axially sprung loaded
> conical pinion so it would run alternately fast and slow each hour.
> There is a church near me that has a clock in the tower that is so old that
> it has only one hand, other not dropped off, minutes weren't needed prior to
> the railways coming in.
> 
> 
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Some of the old 240 volt ac clocks would go whichever way they were started