This person said that the crystal had got bent, and that the mainspring was not straight.

He also remarked that part of the works needed half-soling.

He made these things all right, and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably, save that now and then, after working along quietly for nearly eight hours, everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee, and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely, and they simply seemed a delicate spider's web over the face of the watch.

She would reel off the next twenty-four hours in six or seven minutes, and then stop with a bang.
I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker, and looked on while he took her to pieces.

Then I prepared to cross-question him rigidly, for this thing was getting serious.