Sounds like it.

I know this is old but have ever tried taking it back and get it Fixed ? :smashing:

Marcia,

I read about the near death experience too, but this is more likely to do with the electricity your body produces or magnetism, which would definitely mess up your watch. People with this type of energy tend to throw off anything with mechanical working parts. You may notice that your radio goes static, the t.v will switch channels on it's own, office equipment messes up, etc. This is especially noticable if you get upset over something. This is the type of energy that can be harnessed to make telekinetics work.

This is probably what's happening to you:

"Electricity" which flows through human bodies is charged particles:
potassium ions, sodium ions, chloride, etc. Since these particles are
always inside our bodies, we can't say that "electricity" is dangerous.
Instead, it is the FLOW of charges which causes problems.

Human beings are partly composed of movable "electricity" or charges, but these charges normally don't move much. If something makes them move, abnormal things can happen. When someone gets a shock from touching wires, electricity WAS NOT put into their body from outside.

Instead, the electric voltage on the wires pushed upon the charges already inside their body, which then moved forward, causing an electric current to appear inside. During electrocution, human beings become part of an electric circuit, and the circuit causes their "electricity" to begin flowing fast.

This info is from a place called Amasci.com

Cheers!
Cate

I'm pretty sure it's not an electric current (amperage) thing, but an electric potential (voltage) thing. It involves static electricity, not electric current. Static electricity involves high voltage, low amperage. My problems have to do with build-up of static charges. I suppose I'm at a higher voltage than most people. I tend to get more frequent, and bigger, static shocks than other people.

I am sure it has nothing to do with my mood. Things like this have happened when I was all different types of moods, good and bad. I have read about people associating it with negative moods, however I think that's more of a product of selective memory: people think that bad moods cause their electricity to mess up, therefore when it happens and they're in a bad mood they notice it more. For example, you're in a good mood, you're TV goes out of focus, you retune it and forget about it a minute later. You're in a bad mood and you're TV goes out of focus, you think "my negative energy is causing this," and because you're in a bad mood to begin with, it annoys you more, so you're more likely to remember it. It does seem to get worse for me in cold weather, which makes sense because the air is dryer and people in general tend to get static shocks more.

It's not always a bad thing. Rather than cause TVs and radios to go staticy, I can sort of make the static go away with my body. I have sort of an "electric sense" , when the TV or radio starts getting staticy, I instinctively know how to position myself to get it to start working properly again.

You've answered your own question...if you have a higher voltage than most people, that's why your watch stops.

I thought she just wanted to know if anyone else did it? 8)

I thought it was a possibility, I'm not sure

Paul,

Marcia was wondering if other people experienced their watches stopping, but she also mentioned if there might be a scientific explanation. It's hard to say what happens in this world, much less WHY it happens.

You can get shock resistant watches. Or a simple wind-up watch.

I personally don't buy the whole "high electricity level" of a "particular" person because you can change this level of static electricityby wearing different shoes or clothing. People who shop in groceries more often have a higher average static electricity because of the high static built up by pushing a shopping cart. I say average as an average over time, your normal static levels will always return once normalizing away from the shopping cart.

If a watch is poorly made the quartz clock pulse generator may be mixing signals with static causing perhaps long pulses or a mixed signal. This "noise" can contribute to a watch being fast or slow. With cmos components of the standard watch static electricity should not be able to tamper with the counters in your watch. (if it is digital)

What I belive to be the cause of most watch problems is your own sweat. Sweat is rather corrosive and if leaked to interior components can stop a watch. This can happen rather effectively if you wear your sleeves over your watch at times, or wear your watch too tightly. I had a watch I used to wear to work and it's exterior corroded. That could be the problem.

I forgot to add one small thing about the electricity generated within the human body due to the various chemicals and cells in our body. This ammount of electricity is insignificant compared to the electricity in our own nervous system. The problem with beleiving that hight levels of nervious system electricity is tampering with you watch is that the induced currents produced say by overhead powerlines or fiels created due to induction motors or even electric appliances far dwarf the power level we're dealing with in our own nervious system.

If you live in a house below major junctions in powerlines you may have problems because of that. I saw something on TV once about a woman who belived her house was haunted or that she was possesed, but it turned out that she lived below a huge power junction. The inductive current in her house was dangerously high, it would even cause her to black-out at times. Imagine what that could do to a wrist watch.

I agree that it is not nervous system electricity. I suppose sweat could be a factor, but since only a certain percentage of people experience this kind of thing, it seems that if sweat is the cause I would be an unlikely candidate because I sweat very little compared to other people; in fact I get heat rashes on my wrist and arm in hot weather because I never sweat there at all. It's also not a matter of wearing watches too tightly because I have very thin wrists and my watches are always too loose. Sometimes they fall off my wrist. I suppose I could take one of my stopped watches apart and see if it is wet inside.

But it's not just the watches; it's setting off security buzzers in stores, having blue sparks shoot out from my fingers when I attempt to plug in an appliance, and so forth. I forgot to mention that I can demagnetize a magnet by touching it. (Led to some embarrassing moments in school science demonstrations.) Also, if I'm in a dark room, I can sometimes see my clothing giving off sparks. I don't know if it's the clothing or me or a combination?

I know that static charge will normalize, but couldn't there be a tendency for some reason, for certain people to temporarily build up static charges that are higher than normal? I tend to get static shocks more than most people, and they are the of the intensity where you can see sparks and I involuntarily scream--and if I have to be touching someone, they scream as well. (And I'm not intentionally trying to build up a static charge like rubbing my feet on a carpeted floor or anything. Just doing the normal activities of daily life.)

I doubt if sweat is the cause. Any other ideas?

I suppose it may be possible to build up more static than most people if you sweat very little. Having dry skin drastically reduces conductivity of your skin making it more difficult to normalize with any objects you may not be touching directly

Wearing layers of clothing will also help you build up static as well as wearing thick soled shoes.

time

on my frequent travels to the underworld i discovered that the type of fabric you wear could be a factor.
constant electricity coming up your body to your watch during the day.

Static Man starts fire.