The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

Having obtained a real serviccabc article
you should, IN order to produce satisfactory
results, follow out these rules: Wind up your
watch every day at the same hour. This is gen
orally done at the hour we retire to rest, or per
haps better still, the hour we rise Avoid put
ting a watch on a marble slab or near anything
excessively cold. The sudden transition from
heat to cold contracting the metal, may some
times cause the handspring to break. Indeed
the cold COaguates the OIL, and the wheel.work
and pivots, working less freely affects the reg
ularity OF the timekeeper When we lay our
watch aside we ought to slope it on a 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 1t rests on its case, as by
suspending it free the action OF the balance
may cause oscillation which may considerably
interfere with its gong If you would keep
your watch clean, you must be quite sure that
the case fits firmly, and never put it into any
pocket but one made of leather Those pockets
which are lined with cloth, cotton or calico
give, by the constant friction q certain guam.
tity of fluff, which enters most watches, even
those the cases Of which shut firmly. If the
watch is net "keyless" one, the key should
be small, in order that we may feel the resist
anCe of the stop.wOrk; then we can stop III
time without forcing anything. 1t is also
necessary that The square of the key should
correspond with that of the watch Ii it be
too large, il may in a short time cause the
wlnd-up square to suffer from undue wear and
tear, the rectiyIng of which is rather eXpen.
sive. The hands of an ordinary watch can be
turned backward without much risk. II Is
however, always better 10 move the hands for
ward to adjust your watch to correct time.
\ skiltu matchmaker one day thus reasoned
with u Customer WhU complained Of his watch
You complained" said he, that yoHr watch
gains a minute month. Well, then, you will
congratulate yourself when you have heard me
You are aware that III your watch the balance,
which Is the regulator, makes five oscillations
every second which Is 1872 900 day, so that
your watch, exposed to all the vicissitudes
which hoa and cold occasion it, the varying
weight of the air and the shaking to which Ii
Is subjected ha. not varied more than q min.
ute a month, or two seconds day. Ii has on.
" acquired with each vibration OF the balance
a variation of the 216,000th part of a second
Judge then. What must be the extreme perfeC-
ton oi tue uIeChansul o. this watch
4 watch cannot 90 for an indefinite period
without benz IL paired or cleaned Atthe eX-
plratinr 90 e certain time the oil dries up, dust
accumulatcs, and wear and tear are inevitable
result, D IT, 5.NBie machinery-the functions
becOmI e irr' gular and frequently ceasng to
act alto eta. \ person possessing watch
of good qu"', W. aud DESTROYS of preserving it
as sucI, should have II cleaned every two years
"a. .cus, . lar, shuuid be taken 10 confide
this cleaning or repairing 10 careful hands
an incapable workman may do great injury to
a - ~-'~" the simplest construction
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