Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-29
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How to Treat a Watch.

Having obtained a really serviceable article, you should, in order to produce satisfactory
 result follow out these rules: Wind up
 your watch every day at the same hour.
 This is generally done at the hour we retire
 to rest or perhaps better still the hour we
 rise. Avoid putting watch on marble
 slab or near anything excessively cold. The
 sudden transition from heat to cold contract ing the metal may sometimes cause the main spring to break. Indeed, the cold coagulates the oil and the wheel work and pivots work ing less freely affectthe regularity of the time keeper. When we lay our watch aside, we ought to slope it on @ watch case so as to keep it nearly in the same position as it has | in the pocket. In laying aside your watch, be sure that it rests on its case as by suspend l ing 1t free, the action of the balance may cause oscillation. which may considerably in- ! terfere with it's going. If you would clean your watch you must be quite sure that the | case fits firmly and never pnt it into any pocket but one made of leather. Those | pockets lined with cloth, cotton, or calico l give, by the constant friction, certain quan- l tity of fluff, which enters most watches, even 1 those the cases of which shut firmly. If the 1 watch is not F'Keyless'' one, the key should be small, in order that we may feel the resist ance of the stop-work then we can stop ID 1 time without forcing anything. It is also l necessary that the square of the key should l correspond with that of the watch. If 1t be ! SAAN l wind up square to suffer from undue wear ] and tear; the rectifying of which IS rather ex- f pensive The hands of an ordinary watch | can be turned backward without much risk. | It is, however, always better to move the
 hands forward to adjust your watch to cor \ rect time.
 | A skilIful watchmaker one day thus reason l ed with 8 customer who complained of his 1 watch ''You complained.' said he, 'that youl | watch gained a minute month. Well, then 1 congratulate yourself when you have heard me. You are aware that in your watch, the 1 balance, which is the regulator, makes five oscillations every second, which is four hun dred and thirty two thousand day so that 1 your watch, exposed to all the vicissitudes l which heat and cold occasion it, the varying l weight of the air, and the shaking to whicl l it is subjected, has not varied more than { l minute month ,or two seconds a day. Il I It has only acquired with each vibration o1 the balance variation of the two hundred anc 1 sixteen thonsandth part of a second. Judge l then what must be the extreme perfection O. | the mechanism of this watch ''
 1 A watch cannot go for an indefinite period 1 without being cleaned or repaired. At tht l expiration of a certain time the oil dries up
 cust accumulates, and wear and tear in
 eyitable results to the whole of the machinery
 the functions becoming irregular. and ire
 quently ceasing to act altogether. A perso1
 possessing watch of good quality, and desir
 eous of preserving it as such should have i
 cleaned every two years at least. But car
 should be taken to confide this cleaning or re 1 pairing to careful hands; an incapable work
 man may do great injury to watch even O
 the simplest construction.