The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-10-13
HOW TO TREAT a WATCH.
An Old Matchmaker Gives Advice Wort
Feliowing.

An Old Matchmaker Gives Advice Worth
Eellowing.
"Bear in mind" said an old watch
maker the other day, ''that watch is,
In its way, almost as delicate piece of
mechanism as the human system. As it
Ia necessary for Q man who wishes to
keep in good health to take his meals
regularly, SO it is necessary to feed a
watch at regular intervals. You feed a
watch by winding it up. Therefore
have certain hour for winding your
watch and never deviate from it.
.'You can regulate your own watch
If you viii only study its peculiarities.
See this little arml Well, if your watch
is running slow, turn that arm with the
blade Of your penknife trife toward
the letter r. If 1t is running fast, turn
1t in the opposite direction toward s.
Don't move the arm more than frae-
ton of an inch, for if that viii not suf-
fee your watch needs q watchmaker's
care.
Don't open the inner case of your
watch more than is absolutely necessary.
Every time you open it dust sweeps in
upon the works, and it takes very little
dust to put watch out of order. In nine
cases out of ten, when watch is brought
to me to be cleaned, I can tell with my
glass the business the owner of the watch
follows. examined q watch the other
day and told my customer that he worked
in wool. He admitted the fact. had
found some small particles of wool in the
works Of his watch.
Have chamois case for your watch,
or chamois lining in your watch pocket.
1t preserves the case and keeps it from
getting scratched have heard men say
that watch with chamois case will
keep no better than one without such
protection, but that is nonsense.
"If you work near electrical instru-
ments or ride on electrical cars. you
should have your watch demagnetized.
The real cost Of this is almost nothing.
There Is machine for the purpose. You
place the watch on the positive side and
then on the negative. There is no more
work about it than there is in baking a
loaf of bread.
81 have heard men say that it was i'm
possible to take sick watch to a jeweler
without being told that the trouble lay
in broken handspring. But how little
men who wear watches know about
mainspringsi Broken mainsprings come
as sort Of epidemic. Don't laugh; Tin
simply telling you fact. A year ago
this spring I was flooded with watches
the mainsprings of which had snapped.
A popularity Of the breaking was that
each Of the 25 OF more turns to the spring
was severed, and that the breaks werein
q straight line from the center to the cir
cumference of the spring.
''Now let me add few words as sort
Of final. The best as well as the cheap
est watch movements in the world are
made in England and America. It's all
well enough to talk about Swiss watches,
but in point of accurate time keeping
there never has been made an expensive
Swiss watch that was a whit superior to
q good English or American. one.
"Wind your watch regularly, regulate
1t, study its moods in both hot and cold
weather, keep the inner case closed, get
it .demagnetized and don't call the
matchmaker a robber when he tells you
that the handspring of your watch needs
renewal"