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Maintenance….
I do not take my watch off; I wear it everywhere all the time.
Fine, providing you’re taking all the above tips and hints into account. But you still need to intermittently clean your watch externally. Use warm water, a very soft brush with a little soap to remove stuff like skin particles and dust, presuming your watch is WR to 50m minimum. Clean between the bracelet links, the back of the timepiece, and beneath the clasp. The band’s particles and grit could cause premature wear as it can act similar to sandpaper. Best to keep it all nice and clean! You will be confounded at how much better your watch looks after you clean it and dry it off with a soft fabric.
Can I polish scratched crystal?
Yes, if your timepiece has plastic or acrylic crystal. Various compounds can be employed to try this from the smoker’s variety toothpaste, to cheap, Polywatch, and other specialist polishes. For minor to medium scratches, you simply require a little bit of the polishing compound to rub on the crystal in circular motions using a soft material. Deeper scratches will require more effort and sometimes it is necessary to follow the line of the scratch first as opposed to the round about motion, then the circular motion. Polish dried compound off and hey voila, with a bit of effort the crystal will be almost new.
If you scratch or chip mineral crystal, you have a pretty huge problem. You can’t polish this yourself unless you have access to optical lens polishing equipment. My recommendation is to have a new crystal fitted – pretty cheap, quick and easy for a decent watchmaker or let the professionals look at it.
In the 1st place, it’ll be impossible to scrape a sapphire crystal, but do avoid contact with diamond jewelry, however. A sapphire will chip more easily so watch out for metal catches on door frames and similar. I’m afraid it’s time to get new crystal if you do scratch the sapphire and it bothers you. Please do not let anybody fool you into thinking a sapphire crystal is extraordinarily expensive – depending on the kind of watch in question then it is feasible to have a sapphire bought and fitted for anything.
How Often must my watch be serviced?
Watch buffs discuss this topic a lot. There’s really no concrete rule for this. First, certain lubricants make sure that your mechanical watch consistently runs smoothly, as well as lessen wear. Now, a lubricator doesn’t keep its lubricating qualities for ever – admittedly, these days there are particular manmade lubricants used which will last longer and perform as they should for a longer period. However if we look at it logically then the service interval will to a certain degree be determined by how a watch is utilized and this is just how some manufacturers approach the subject.
Therefore, a diver’s watch utilised by a commercial diver on a day-to-day basis will be subject to more abuse than a diver’s watch worn by an office worker. The seals will exposed to water more often, the watch will theoretically get more vibration and shock – in a word, there will more stress put upon the watch and its movement. A annual check up for water resistance could be shrewd, as well as fully servicing every couple of years. In the case of a lightly worn watch then the water resistance check might be extended to 2 years with a full service and lubrication performed at five year intervals. I say do not let 5 years go by without servicing any mechanical watch; after this time, even the best lubricator would have lost its lubricating qualities.
Should I go by the “if it isn’t busted, don’t fix it” principle?
A watch could run for years without needing attention, but it may be that when the time comes that it does, it may be extremely expensive. Moreover, you might have to live without a watch for a while because parts could need to be specially ordered. I prefer to limit the possibilities of disaster by following the rules above! To be on the safe side, I get my watch serviced every year. To keep the best reproduction timepieces running nicely, they’ll need to be serviced from time to time.

By: Julia King

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