The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-12-15
CURING A WET WATCH
What to Do if Your Timepiece
Falls In the Water.
POP IT IN A CUP OF ALCOHOL
Then Take the Cup, Just as II Is, to
the Ropairer and Let Him Do the
Rsst-Some Things an IuauisitiVe
Customer Learned From a Jeweier.

"My wife set her watch on a slippery
glass shelf" said the customer as he
laid small Swiss timepiece IN the
watch repalrers hand minus its crys-
tai "The gold chain pulled IL on the
shslf. and II landed in the bnthtub
and smashed the works all M, 50 my
wife says
ANY water in the tub?" asked the
watch man quickly.
mo"
Good
The repaircr adjusted his eyeplece
and looked inside the watch. Then he
took n tiny screwdrivcr. set 1t on one
OF the bearings and twirlcd /, between
his fingers delicatcly. Presently Il"
held up tiny cogwhccl with hair
| spring curling its microscopic threads
around an axis and springing M AMI
down with the instability Of quicbsi
yer as the man gently shook IL.
yes" he said, replacing the delicate
| mechanism, Its all broken up on the
! inside, handspring and pinion AMI
everything The new parts will have
| TO he made You can't buy them lu
this country. II Will cost about So hut
your watch viii he as good as new
Perhaps IL there had been some VA.
/ ter In the tub It would have broken the
fall and the works wouldn't have been
broken up 80 muchf'
The rcpairer shrugged his shoulders
Watches that have rustcd are tho"
which most outrage the jewelers. sense
of all that Is proper and sane. The
man who opcus his watch In moist "r
dusty weather is his pet object uf
scorn A ruSted watch has to hc taken
apart and cleaned thoroughly. Even
then il may not run, and If IL does IL
usually doesn't run accurately.
The rcpnircr told the above In ~
man, words or more 10 the owner ol
the watch
Yes. | know" said the owner. Il
know it makes You watchmak"rS shnd
der to get watches that haV" hrcn
soaked. had a relative once who
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DAYS. lie had a fine gold chrohomctcr
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