The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-11-24
LAoIBERTvILLE. n j. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER "A 1880.
now no TREAT u va ToH.
FEW sImrLR RULES ron EsfE rREsEnvA-
TIoN OF pERFEcT T1MErIEcE.

Having obtained a really servceable 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 generally done at the hour we retire to
rest, or perhaps better still, the hour we rise.
Avoid putting watch ON a marble slab or
anything excessively cold. The sudden tran
sition from heat to cold, contracting the met
al, may sometimes cause the handspring to
break. Indeed, the cold coagulates the oil,
freely, affect the regularity of the timekeeper.
When we lays watch aside, we ought to slope
it on watch case, SO as too keep 1t nearly in
the same position as 1t has In the pocket. In
laying aside your watch be sure that it rests
on its case, as by suspendiDg 1t free the action
OF the balance may cause oscillation, which
may considerably interfere with its going 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, certain quantity of fluff, which
enters most watches, even those the cases of
which shut firmly. Ii the watch is not a
keyless " one, the key shonld 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 correspond with
that of the watch. If it be too large, it may
in short time, cause the wind up square to
suffer from undue wear and tear the rectify-
i.g of which is rather expensive. The hands
of an ordinary watch can be turned backward
without much risk 1t is, however, always
your watch TO correct time.
A skillful matchmaker one day thus reason.
cd with customer who complained of his
watch lyon complained said be, that
your watch gains minute month. Well
then, you will congratulate yourself when you
have heard me. You are aware that in your
watch, the balance, which is the regulator,
makes five oscillations every second, which Is
four hundred and thirty two thousand day
so that your watch, exposed to all the viossi-
tudes which heat aud cold occasion it, the
varying weight of the air. and the shaking to
which it is subjected has not varied more
than minute month or two seconds a day.
1t has only acquired with each vibration, the
two hundred and sixteen thousandth part of
second. Judge, then, what must be the ex-
treme perfection of the mechanism of this
watch !"
watch cannot 90 for an indefinite time
without being repaired or cleaned. At the
expiration Of a certain time the oil dries up,
dust accumulates and wear aud tear are in
evitable results to the whole machinery, the
| functions becoming irregular aud frequently
ceasing to act altogether. A person possess
ing watch of good quality and DESTROYS of
preserving 1t as such, should have it cleaned
every two years at least. But care should be
taken to confide this cleaning or repairing to
careful hands an incapable workman may
do great injury to watch even of the sim
plest construction - Chambers Journal.