L'ora ferma
The stopped hour
Gianni repaired watches since forty years in the his small workshop near the station. He knew every mechanism, every type of spring, every fault hidden.
One afternoon of March, a woman elderly came in into the workshop carrying a watch pocket watch in her hand. It was a piece old, with the case silver scratched.
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"It has stopped at three and twenty for forty years.", the woman said the woman. "I would like it to start again to walk."
Gianni has taken the watch and it has opened with his his tools. The spring was broken, as he expected. But while he worked he became wondered: why that time specific?
When was back to collect the watch, the woman has said: "It was the time at which which my husband passed away. The watch was his."
Gianni did not has say anything. He handed over the watch repaired and has refused the payment. The woman has nodded in silence and went away away left.
Gianni sat remained alone in the workshop, with all the his watches that were ticking around him to him. He had repaired thousands of watches, but that one was the first that he truly understood truly.