The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-12-09
How to Treat \ Watch.

Having obtained O really serviceable
article, you should, i'll order to produce
satisfactory results, 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 anything excessively cold. The
sudden transition from heat to cold
contracting the metal may sometimes
cause the handspring to break. In
deed, the cold coagulates the oil;
and the wheel work and plvots
working less freely affect the regularity
of the time keeper. When we lay
our watch aside we ought to slope
it on watch case, so rs to keep
it nearly in the same position as 1t has IN
the pocket. In laying aside yonr! watch
be sure that it rests on its case, us by sus-
pending it free the action of the balance
may cause oscillation, which may con.
siderably interfere with its going. Ii
you would keep your watch clean you
must be quite sure that the case nus
firmly, and never put it into any pocKet
but one made of leather. Those pockets
which are lined with cloth, cotton or cal
leo give. by tie constant friction, GER
tain qAsntity of fluff, which enters most
watches, even those the cases OF when
shut firmly. If the watch is not
"keyless" one, the key should
be small, in order that we may
feel the resistance of the stop work /;
then we can stop in time without
forcing anything. 1t is also necessary
that the square Of the key should cor
respond with that of the watch. 1t
be too large, it may in short time
cause the wind up square to suffer from
undue wear and tear; the rectifylng OF
which is rather expensive. The hands
of an ordinary watch can be turned
backward without much risk. 1t IS,
however, always better to move the
hands forward to adjust your watch to
correct time.
A skillful matchmaker one day thus
reasoned with customer who complained
of his watch: "You complained" said he,
"that your watch gains q minute ID
menth. Well. then, you will congratu-
late yourself when you have heard me.
You are aware that in your watch the
balance, which is the regulator, makes
/ five oscillations every second, when Is
four hundred and thirty-.wo thousand a
day; so that your watch exposed to all
the yicissitudes of heat and cold, the
varying weight of the air, and the shak-
ing to which it is subjected to, has not
varied more than minute month, OF
two seconds day 1t has only acquired
with each vibration of the balance va
ration of the two hundred and sixteen
thousandth part of n second. Judge
then, what must be the extreme perfec-
ton of the mechanism of this watch.
A watch cannot go for an indefinite
period without being repaired or clean
ed. At the expiration of certain time
the oil dries up, dust accumulates anc
wear and tear are inevitable results tt
the whole machinery, the functions be
coming irregular, and frequently ceas-
ing to act altogether. A person pos,
I sessing a watch of good quality, ant
DESTROYS of preserving it as such, shoult
have it cleaned every two years ut least
But care should be taken to conhd'
this cleaning or repairing to careful
hands; an incapable work KHAN may d'
great injury to q watch even OF thu
: simplest construction.