The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-03
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HOW TO TREAT A WATCH.
instructions for Keeping Your Timepiec
ALWAYS I'm Good Order

AhseFuctions Tor Keeping Your Timepiece
Always in Good Order.
Having obtained a really service
able 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 when we
retire TO rest, or perhaps, better still,
the hour we rise.
Avoid putting a watch on a marble
slab, or near anything excessively
cold. The sudden transition from
heat to cold contracting the metal
may sometimes cause the handspring
to break. Indeed, the cold coagulates
the oil, and the wheel works and piv-
OTIS working less freely affect the regu-
larity of the timekeeper.
When we lay our watch aside we
ought to slope 1t on. a watch case so as
to keep it nearly in the same position
it has in the pocket. In laying aside
your watch be sure that it rests on its
case. BY suspending it 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 your case
tits firmly, and never putin any pocket
but ono made OF leather. Those pockets
which are lined with cloth, cotton or
calico give, by the constant friction,
certain quantity Of fluff, which en-
tors most watches, even those cases of
which shut firmly.
II the watch is not a ''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 with
out forcing anything. 1t is also nec-
essary that the square of the key
should correspond with that of the
watch. II it be too large it may in a
short time cause the wind up square
to suffer from undue wear and tear,
tho rectifying of which is rather ex-
pensive. The hands of an ordinary
watch can be turned backward with
out much risk. 1t is, however, always
better TO turn tho hands forward To
adjust your watch to correct time
A skillful watch maker one day thus
reasoned with a customer who com.
planned of his watch: "You complain
ed, said he, that your watch gains q
minute a 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 432, 900 day;
so that your watch, exposed to all the
vicissitudes which heat and cold oc
casion it, the varying weight of the
air, and the shaking to which it Is sub
jected, has not varied more than 6
minute a month or two seconds day.
1t has only acquired with each vibra
ton! of the balance variation of the
216, ,000th part of a second. Judge
then, what must be the extreme per-
fection of the mechanism of thii
watch.n
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, anG
wear and tear are inevitable results *
the whole machinery, tho functions
becoming irregular, frequently ceas
Ing to act altogether
A person possessing a watch of GOOD
quality, and desirous of preserving Il
as such, should have it cleaned every
two years as least But careshould bt
taken TO confide the repairing or rclean
ing to careful hands; an incapable
workman may do great injury to 1
watch even of the simplest construc
don.-Chambers Journal