Charles, you’ve been hiding in the same closet with Bob when I was working on this watch and and sneaking up on me.
unVERYfortunately, you are very right. I remember like it was yesterday and it would make me look like a moron (not the first time this happens too 
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I did not let the mainspring down when taking the bridge out and it kind of got stock so I pushed it and pryed it and finally removed it which followed by the usual ZZZAZZZREGFEWRDFZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ noise of the unwinding main spring and other parts that it was hitting.
The saddest thing is I finished a beautiful Russian Poljot Gold Poljot watch last night. The stem wasn’t going in – it’s a known issue with Russian 2616 2H movements so you have to remove the bridge and move the setting lever down, insert the setting pinion right on top of it and then it would all connect. So when removing the bridge on this beautiful finished watch, I didn’t let the main spring down again (it was late) same ZZZZZZZDRLKJSDLKJSDZZZZZZZ. I installed the stem but when put the barrel and bridge back now something happend that I have never seen. If you wind the watch and remove the clicker it would not unwind – NEITHER IT WOULD POWER THE WATCH TO WORK – MAIN SPRING IS WOUND BUT CANNOT UNWIND TO POWER THE WATCH – basically something is stuck at one of the gears – when I was taking it out like a barbarian – something went wrong…. and now the only way to take out is again to pry it open without letting the main spring unwind because removing the clicker does not unwind main spring – removing the whole bridge does….
I got upset and went to sleep – 3:30AM
But it’s ok – there is always another day and one day I’ll get it right 
– hey! after 15 years I learned how many pair of shoes my wife needs to be happy – just one more! So I’ll learn watchmaking as well – it’s just a matter of time…