The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-16
HANDLING A WAICd.

Rules That VIII Save Many jewelers.
Bills if Followed.
"You want to know how to care for
fine watch, eh9" said the old watchmaker>
as he took off his glasses and wiped them
with his handkerchief. Let me see your
watch"
The Mail and Cypress man handed over
his timeplece, and the old man examined it
carefully.
"Well, my boy" he said finally "bear in
mind continually that watch is, in its way,
almost as delicate piece of mechanism as
the human system. As It is necessary for a
man who wishes to keep in good health to
take his meals regularly, 50 1t is necessary
to feed a watch at regular intervals. You
feed watch by winding it up. Therefore
nave certain hour for winding your watch
and never deviate from it.
IN this case there are probably 100
watches Not one of them is running. On
this rack there are eighteen, and all are
going. | wind them the first thing in the
morning, starting them with the one in the
lower left hand corner. They get their
meals regularly.
you can regulate your own watch il
you will only study its pecullarities. See
this little arm. Well, if your watch is run
ming SLOW turn that arm with the blade of
y
f. If it is running fast turn in the OPP
posite direction, toward - Don't move
the arm more than fraction of an inch,
for, if that will not suffice, your watch
needs watchmaker's care.
Don't open the inner case of your watch
more than is absolutely necessary. Every
time you open it dust sweeps il upon the
works, and 1t takes very little dust to put a
watch out Of order. In nine times out of ten
when watch is brought to me to be cleaned
l can tell with my glass the business the
owner of the watch follows. l examined a
watch the other day and told my customer
that he worked in wool. He admitted the
fact. had found small PARTICLES OF wool
in the works Of his watch.
''HRve a chamois case for your watch, or
a chamois lining to your watch pocket. IL
preserves the case and keeps 1t from getting
scratched. l have heard men say that
watch with chamois case will keep better
time than one without such protection, but
that 10 nonsense.
IF you work near electric instruments
or ride on electric cars you should have
your wstch demagnetlZed. A few years
ago such an operation cost q great deal Of
money. Unprincipled jewelers. would tell
a customer that in order to make thor
ough job of it every piece in the watch
would have to be treated independently
first positively and then Degatively-iA or
der to receive magnetic or electric
equilibrium. / have known watchmakers
to charge S25 for demagnetizing a watch.
- The real cost is almost nothing. There
is a machine for the purpose. You place
the watch on the positive side and then on
the negative. There is u more work about
it than there is in the baki0g of loaf OF
bread.
Il have heard men say that it was i'm
possible to take sick watch to the jeweler
without being told thai the trouble lay in a
broken mainspring,! But how little men
who wear watches known about main
springs Broken painsprings come as q
sort OF epidemic. Don't laugh. I'm simply
telling you fact. A year ago this spring
/ was flooded with watches, the mai springs
OF which had snapped. A popularity OF
the breaking Yves that each Of the twenty