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A Day in Watch School Part 6 Hairsprings by ei8htohms © 8-29-2003 Ok, I've put it off long enough, I think I've finally recovered from the Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and am ready to talk about hairspringing. Forget everything I've said before about ho...  

John, Your statement " forget everything I've said before about how important the barrel is, the train wheels, lubrication, the escapement, blah, blah, blah. The hairspring is the watch. " is a big eye opener. I always paid much more attention to those it... 

Thanks Nilo, I meant that to be a little tongue-in-cheek in my effort to capture the extent to which each and every part is critical to the proper functioning of a watch and that each and every part SEEMS to be the absolute most important when you're focu...