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No — it is held, and the game says by what. Parts cover each other by their real shapes and heights, so a bridge under a screw head will not lift until that screw is out, the balance comes off before the pallet cock, and nothing on the dial side moves while the stem is in.
The line of text that appears is the hint. It names the piece in the way, and taking that off first is always the answer.
The mainspring is probably still wound. A wound watch has force on every wheel in the train, and taking a bridge off one is how real ones get wrecked, so the game refuses. Tap the click — the little sprung finger on the ratchet wheel — to let the spring down first, a few teeth at a time.
Circle the screw head with a finger, the way a screwdriver goes round. Anticlockwise backs it out, clockwise drives it home, and the game counts turns rather than taps: some screws want half a turn and some want three.
The crown wheel's screw is left-hand threaded, as it is on a real movement, so that winding cannot undo it. That one goes the other way.
That is a symptom, not a bug — it is one of the faults, and which one depends on what the spinning feels and sounds like. Turning freely with the click ticking past is a broken mainspring. Winding and then running back is a rusted click spring. Turning with nothing catching at all, and no setting either, is a broken stem.
That one is lever-set, as American railroad rules required, so that a crown knocked in a pocket could never shift the time. Prise the bezel off and pull the little lever out at the dial's edge; then the crown sets the hands. Push it back in and the crown winds again.
Reassembly is the same rules in reverse, plus one more: a jewel that still needs its drop of oil will not let you cover it. If a bridge refuses and nothing is obviously in the way, look for an oil point underneath it that is still dry.
The order is the real one, so if a part has to go on before another, it is because the movement is built that way.
Pick up an oiler and every point that still wants that drop is ringed on the movement, so the question is only which oiler. Thin oil for the fast pivots at the escape and balance, the heavier one for the slow ones at the barrel and centre, pallet stone oil on the escape wheel's exit stone, grease on the keyless works and the mainspring's wall.
The wrong oil goes in and says so — and then has to be cleaned out, which means taking off whatever you have since put over it. Flooding a jewel is its own mistake.
Four things. The rate is seconds a day fast or slow — move the regulator index to change it. The amplitude is how far the balance swings, in degrees; a healthy watch sits around 270° fully wound, and a low figure means friction, old oil, or a tired spring. The beat error is how uneven the tick and the tock are, in milliseconds, and shows as a gap between the two lines. The last reading is the beat rate and the position the watch is lying in.
A watch is done when the trace lies flat and the rate is inside the tolerance the envelope asks for. Chronometer grade asks for less than the rest.
It ran down, as it would. A finished watch keeps its own time on its own mainspring from the moment you cased it, and a manual one has about a day and a half in it. Pick it up and roll the crown to wind it again; it starts on the first tick.
No. There is no fail state, nothing is timed, and nothing can be broken by taking it apart in the wrong order — the game refuses instead. The bench is saved exactly as it lies, part by part, so you can put the phone down mid-repair and find every screw where you left it.
They come in chapters, and a chapter opens when every envelope of the one before it is finished. If the drawer looks short, there is still a watch from the current chapter waiting — including, possibly, the one already on your bench.
Yes, through your own iCloud, with no account of ours and nothing to set up. Both devices keep their own copy and the further-along one wins, so finish a watch on the iPad and it is on the shelf on the iPhone. Signed out of iCloud, the game saves locally and plays exactly the same.
That is Tomás's own, and it is meant to. It comes as he left it, stripped, with the note for whoever finishes this. Put it back together the way you have put the others back.
No. One purchase and it is complete — both devices, all twelve watches, and every update. Watches added later are free.
Email the address below with as much detail as you can: which envelope you were on, what you were trying to do, what the game said, and what you expected instead. Screenshots help a great deal, especially of the line that tells you why a part would not move.
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