ten minutes to ten
I padded my breast for a few days , but finally took the watch to another watchmaker . He picked it all to pieces , and turned the ruin over and over under his glass ; and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair-trigger . He fixed it , and gave it a fresh start . It did well now , except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors , and from that time forth they would travel together . The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch , and so I went again to have the thing repaired . 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 .