The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-07
AS TO YOUR WATCH.
If it Varies but a Second or Less a
Day 1t May Be Counted a Good One.

Day 1t May Be Counted a Good One.
The man with the good watch, find.
ing his timepiece running little slow,
took it into the jeweler of whom he
bought it to have it set, relates the
Sun. The jeweler opened the watch
at the back to get at the little scrap
of paper here kept, upon which was
inscribed the record of previous set
tings.
"It was last Set" he said. as he
glanced at this paper, ION Oct. il,
and this is Feb 4, making a period OF
approximately four months. The
watch is now one minute and 25 sec.
Onds slow; or, in other words, it has
lost IS seconds in, say, one 120 days
So the watch has varied but trifle
more than two-thirds Of a second a
day, which is doing very we'll indeed
"As a matter of fact. among the
very best watches some might vary as
much as second day, or 80 seconds
month; though some watches might
not vary more than 10 or IL seconds a
month. 1t is conceivable that watch
might run absolutely true, but that
would be something very remarkable
1T is similar fact that no two 10.
cOmotives, though made from the
same stock of material and from the
same patterns at the same time, will
run exactly alike in all their perform.
anceS, and the same is true of watches
You might take two watches of the
highest grade and just alike, made
from the same stock at the same time
and by the same workmen. and they
would not run exactly alike, though
the difference in their running would
be very slight
From one cause or another watches
may vary in their running A watch
that had run Is or 20 seconds slow one
month might run Is or 20 seconds fast
another, and then it might come back
to the true time And SO at times,
months after it was set, it might seem
to be keeping exact time.
But more commonly a watch
would have uniform variation. run.
ming fast or slow; and thoroughly
good watch, running with such varia-
ton would of course be practically a
perfect time keeper.
ITO sum it all up, it can be laid
down as a general proposition that a
watch that varies but second or less
in day, or but 30 seconds Or less
In a month, is surely a good watch !;
and one that varies, as yours has done,
but trifling fraction more than two
thirds of a second a day in four
months, is very good watch; and we
won't touch the regulator, we'll just
set it: and see what it will do next
time.
Does it hurt watch to lay it down
on it's side at night, to put it, for in.
stance, under your pillow? Why. put.
ting it under your pillow may be a
good thing to do to protect it from
burglars, but it is not good for the
watch.
"In use q watch is carried int a yer.
tical position, which is the proper DO.
SitiOn for it, so that the arbors or axles
or the wheels will have the same bear.
ing at both ends. When the watch is
laid on it's side there is some slight
deviation from the uniformity of bear.
ing, slight. but something; and it is
very probable that if instead of put
ting your watch under your pillow al
night you should leave it in your
waistcoat pocket and hang your waist.
coat up so that he watch would re
main by night as well as by day in
what We might call it's natural posi-
. ton, it would do even better than ii
has done.
at is really interesting to think that
watch will run SO long as it does
without fresh oiling. In the case OF
most machines we have oil cups over
the bearings from which lubricant is
fed constantly, or we oil the bearings
frequently But there are no oil cups
or reservoirs of any sort in q watch
When it is cleaned there is put on
each bearing the most infinitesimal
drop of oil and that suffices.
"The bearings, to be sure, are small
but some of the wheels Of a watch
make. in the course of year, an enor-
nous number of turns or movements
and the watch should not be run in.
definitely without attention A watch
should be cleaned as often as once in
18 months"