The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-24
HANDLING a WATCH.

HANDLING a WATCH.
Rules That WIN save NAM Jewellery. nm
n Followed.
You want TO know how to care for
finc watch, eh?'' said the old watch
makcr, as he took off his glasses an
wiped them with his handkerchief
Let me see your watch"
The Mail and Express man hande'
over his timepiece, and the old maj
handled it carefully.
well, my boy" he said finally
bear in mind continually that watcl
Is, In its way, almost as delicate piec,
OF mechanism as the human system. A,
it is necessary for man who wishes Il
keep in good health to take his meal.
regularly, SO is it necessary to feed q
watch at regular intervals You feed 9
watch by winding it mp. Therefore
have a certain hour for winding your
watch and never deviate from It.
I'm this case there are probably one
i. hundred watches. Not one of them is
running. On this rack there are eight
cen, and all are going Iwind them the
first thing in the morning, start them
with the one in the lower left hand cor
ner. They get their meals regularly.
lyon can regulate your own watch if
You will only study its peculiarities.
See this little arm. Well, If your watch
Is running slow, turn that arm with the
blade of your penknife trife toward
the letter f. If it is running fast turn
In the opposite direction toward 81
Don't move the arm more than q frac-
ton of an inch, for II that will not suf-
fice your watch needs watchmakers
care.
Don't open the inner case of your
watch more than is absolutely neces-
sary. Every time you open IL dust
sweeps in upon the works, and IL takes
very little dust to put watch out of
order. In nine times out Of ten when
watch Is brought to me to be cleaned /
can tell with my glass the business the
owner of the watch follows. Iexam-
ined watch the other day and told my
customer that he worked in wool. He
admitted the fact. had found small
PARTICLES of wool in tho works of his
watch.
Have chamois case for your watch,
or chamois lining to your watch
pocket. 1t preserves the case and keeps
it from getting scratched. have heard
men say that q watch with q chamois |
case will keep better time than one
without such protection, but that is
nonsense.
If You work near electric instru-
ments or ride on electric cars, Won
should have your watch demagnetized.
A few years ago such an operation cost
; great deal of money. Unprincipled
jewellers would tell q customer that in
rider to make q thorough Job of it every
piece in the watch would have to be
'reated Observation-Disclosures positively
md then negatively-in order to receive
magnetic or electric equilibrium. III
lave known watchmakers to charge
twenty-five dollars for demagnetizing a
watch.
The real cost is almost nothing.
there is machine for the purpose.
lou place the watch on the positive
ide and then on the negative. There
no more work about IL than there Is
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Il have heard men say that it was
npossible to take sick watch to !
jeweler without being told that
ne trouble lay in a broken MAIN
BRING. But how little men who wear
atches know about mainsprinRsL
roken mainsprings come as q sort of 7
'idemic. Don't laugh. / am simplv I
ling You fact. A year ago this 7
ring I was flooded with watches. the I
Of which had snapped. A I
of the breaking was that I
ch OF the twenty-five or more turns to y
e spring was severed and that the U
'caks were in straight line from the o
inter- to the circumference of the
ring. il
Every matchmaker In New York had t
experience similar to my own last u
ring. We have often compared notes. 7
4 we have been unable TO account for 81
epidemics, except upon the hypoth- h
Is that atmospheric conditions are the Il
use. What those conditions are. re- G.
Inns to be determined II has been o
'erted that when the northern liQhts fo
the brightest mainsprings are most o.
to snap You probably remember Iii
1t in February the aurora borealis ca
8 phenomenally brilliant, and vet he
ring that period no watch with a w
'ken handspring was brought to me. fir
ant account for the phenomenon. ba
4 don't believe there is q watch ST
ker in New York who knows more en-
'ut it than do. to
Now let me say few words as a HI
OF finale. The best as well as the de
'apest watch movements in the world 90
made in America. It's all we'll fe,
ugh to talk about Swiss watches. Mi
let me tell you that in point of accu 10,
time-keeping there never has been nd
de five hundred dollar Swiss watch Ter
t was whit superior to q twenty les
dollar watch in America IN. Y. lar
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