The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-24

ent uses Of the watch by physicians is real
~ going hack to first principles THIS
original watch was \ very crude anair. IL
Simply had large second hand that made
a circuit of the dial every minute. Jumping
q second a. time. and there was no way
Of stopping OF otherwise controlling H.
The subsequent development of the split
second chronegraph and its Use in horse
timing watches 20 be associated more with
herse-raeiag than any other single inter-
est They are now about as near perfec-
ton as can be attained oy human skill
and ingenuity. The fact should not be lost
sight OF that watch =. after all merely
a piece OF mechanism and. hike any other
machine, a great deaf depends On its hand
ling A highly adjusted watch il an excel
lent indicator OF the character Of the
wearer, particularly as regards his daily
habits. for. while one watch may run
may vary many seconds with another A
customer the other day brought his watch
to famous New York jeweier and told
him that in the previous six months 1t had
gained just nine seconds, Ia the next three
months IL lost two seconds. so that in the
nine months II had varied just seven Sec
oncs. OF course. this was really phe-
nomenal case. but IL demonstrates what a
superior watch has done under the most
favorable circumstances. The owner Of
TINS watch Is very methodscai Eiin. with
punctualty itself. winds up his watch at
the same hour zach day. walks al about
the same gait and the same distance daily
attending 10 his business AFFAIRS goes TO
bed at the same hour each night. and on
retiring leaves the watch In his walstcoat
hung over chair. Thus for the same
number Of hours each day the watch rests
In the same position. Give this same time
piece 10 nervous. eNcitahle person. who
runs for and jumps of cars whose habit
Is 20 wind his watch on retiring and who
retirss al ali hours. and the result would
be very different It has also been noticed
that watches vary more or less as the case
may be. between Saturday ard Monday
than In an equal length of time during the
week, for tho reason that the average man
Is less active between Saturday and Mon
day than on other days. OF course this
applies chiefly 10 the finely adjusted
watches.
With the improvement IN watches gener-
ally the cost of production has also been
materially reduced 50 that today a gold
watch IS practically within the reach of
al. Nowadays jewelers. sch much hand
soner ana heater open-face woman's gold
watch for IS than could be bought few
years ago for so. The woman's chrome
graph watch sells for $50. but in the richly
decorated and teweled women's watches
the prices range anywhere from So 10 81 esss
and upward. The same is true OF the
c1ronograrhs or timing watches You can
now buy mans handsome single chrono-
graph. marking fifths OF a second in an
e.gnteen-carat gold case for slea The
sI,lit-second chronographs. In eighteen
cara, gold cases. range from SIS TO $500
Tie cases Of all these are OF the same high
standard eighteen-carat gold the prices
being governed entirely by the equipment
IS considered perfection in horse timers
In addition TO the split-second hands this
watch has quarterly jump second hand and
minute marker. With this watch Won
second the exact time FOR each quarter or
other fractional Part Of the race