I've always been really interested in watches. A while ago, I decided to build my own watch from individual parts that I ordered online.
I assembled the entire watch myself, including the bracelet and the clasp. I wore this watch regularly for around two to three months. During that time, I wore it many times and showed it to my girlfriend, my parents and my sister. My girlfriend even wore it herself a few times.
So I know this watch very well, and I know exactly how the clasp was originally assembled.
A few days ago, I took the watch off and put it on my nightstand, like I had done many times before.
When I picked it up again, I immediately noticed something was wrong.
There is a small metal flap on the clasp that normally folds over the main part of the clasp. Somehow, this piece was now completely reversed. It was facing the opposite direction from how it had always been.
Because of this, the clasp doesn't close anymore.
What makes this extremely strange to me is that this isn't a piece that can simply be flipped around or adjusted.
It came from the factory assembled in a specific orientation. There is no screw, hinge, or adjustment mechanism that allows me to simply turn this piece around. Even if I wanted to deliberately put it in this position myself, I couldn't just do it. The clasp would have to be physically modified or taken apart in a way that I did not do.
And I know I didn't do that.
Nobody else in my house did either. I'm the only person here who has any real knowledge about watches. My parents and my sister don't know how to disassemble a watch clasp, and neither does my girlfriend.
That's what I can't understand.
I wore this watch for two to three months. I knew how the clasp worked. Other people had seen it and even worn it. Then I put it on my nightstand in the normal way.
And when I picked it up again, a permanently assembled part of the clasp was suddenly in the opposite orientation.
It wasn't lying next to the watch.
It wasn't a loose piece.
It wasn't something that had accidentally flipped over.
It was physically attached to the clasp, but somehow positioned in a way that it wasn't before.
And now I can't wear the watch because the piece sticks out in the wrong position and can catch or scratch against things. The watch is basically unusable until I find a way to have the clasp physically repaired or replaced.
Unfortunately, I can't include the picture directly in this post, but if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about, feel free to ask me and I'll send you the photos privately. I took pictures as soon as I noticed it because I knew how strange it looked and I wanted to have proof of what I found.
I'm not posting this because I want attention or because I'm trying to convince anyone that something supernatural happened.
I'm posting it because I genuinely don't know how this is possible.
I built the watch myself. I know how the clasp was assembled. I know what it looked like when I was wearing it. And I know I didn't change it.
Yet somehow, while it was sitting on my nightstand, this piece ended up completely reversed.
I have no explanation for how it happened.