Watch Tips To Follow

You finally got the watch you always wanted. Maybe it’s gold with all kinds of extras and just makes you feel fuzzy inside or is just plain cool. Now you have to worry about taking care of it. Well don’t get all bothered about it Junior, we’re going to give you some tips so your ticker keeps on ticking.

Your watch is like a small child. Okay, not really, but there are some things you will have to do if you want to keep your timepiece running the way it should be running. If you fail to do that your watch becomes nothing more than a time bomb. Okay, maybe it doesn’t but it is just a matter of time (no pun intended) before you watch breaks or becomes a piece of junk.

Water is your watches worse enemy, beside maybe heat. Hot water is even worse. Even if you have one of those cool watches that are water resistant up to 30 meters or something remember they are water resistant, meaning they will resist water, not water proof. Once water gets inside your watch you are looking at possible rust and rust is bad for obvious reasons. Drying out your cool watch in the microwave is a bad bad idea.

If you expose your watch to saltwater, make sure to rinse it off and set it out to dry. Salt water is harder on a watch and can damage it more easily than fresh water. Avoid wearing your watch during any activity involving water or steam. Why anyone would wear their nice luxury time piece into a sauna is beyond me, so maybe you should show off somewhere else.

Date changing is kind of a weird proposition with most luxury watches. It is recommended that you change the date anytime you like, as long as it is not within three hours of midnight. The reason for this being that the internal mechanism is in the process of doing that already. Your interference could cause damage to the gears. So pick a time within the other 21 hours to change the date.

Wind your automatic watch by hand once or twice a week. This keeps the oils moving in the right direction. It is also important because it will keep the gears nice and slick. Non-slick flooring is great, non-slick gears will put you behind schedule.

Make sure you only wind your watch once a day. This is also important when you think about how your mechanical watch runs on tension. The theory behind a once a day winding is to keep from wearing out the tensioning mechanism in the watch. This is why some people end up with broken timepieces a lot of times; over winding. Once a day Marvin.

Regular maintenance is import. So like your annual physical and periodic dental trips, schedule some time for your watch to be examined by a professional. They will check your watch for rust and clean the gears. Usually every two years is a great idea in regards to getting a check up for your watch. Got it? Happy time keeping!

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