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    Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care
    Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care
    Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care
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    Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care

    By Anon

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    Contained within this antiquarian volume is a simple, accessible guide to the care and maintenance of wrist watches, with information on cleaning, minor repairs, and more. Written in clear, plain language and complete with step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, this text is perfect for those with little previous knowledge, and would make for a great addition to collections of watch-related literature. The chapters of this book include: A History Of Clocks And Watches, Cleaning Watches, and Cleaning A Watch. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781447490661
    Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care

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      Keep Your Wrist Watch Clean and Ticking - A Guide to Wrist Watch Cleaning and Care - Anon

      CLEANING WATCHES.

      WATCHES require cleaning for two reasons. They may be dirty through dust having entered and settled upon the moving parts, or the oil may have dried up around the pivots and become sticky. Thus a watch may want cleaning although it is not really dirty at all and may not even have been worn.

      To cleanse dirt and sticky oil from watches, they must be taken apart and the pieces put in benzine or petrol, both of which are solvents of grease of all kinds. They are then brushed clean with a watch brush charged with a little dry chalk.

      Key-wind Geneva Watches.—To take a watch apart, the first thing is to take it out of its case. Watches are fastened in their cases in many different ways. Taking key-wind Geneva watches first, they are generally held in by a short pin or pins on one side, just entering the edge of the case, and by a dog screw, sometimes two dog screws, on the other side. The dog screws can be seen when the case back is opened, and may be on the top plate, overlapping the case edge a little, or they may be on the bottom plate. Fig. 62 shows a dog screw. Generally they are cut away as shown, so that a half-turn enables the movement to be taken out of its case; but sometimes they are not so cut, and have to be entirely removed. In replacing a movement fastened in like this, the pins are first got into position, and then the movement is pressed down to its seating and the dog screws turned. All watches, without exception, are put in from the case front.

      FIG. 62.—Dog Screw.

      When out of its case, remove the hands by drawing them off with cutting nippers; when there is no room to insert the edges between the minute hand and the hour hand, insert the edges under the hour hand and draw both off together. Draw the seconds hand off in the same manner. Special pliers and tweezers are made for getting hands off, and can be used by those whose stock of tools is not limited; they are safer and easier to use than cutting nippers. Using a pocket-knife to lever them off is the worst method, and should not be practised.

      Remove the dial. If a white enamel dial, it may be fastened by pins through its feet, in which case they are removed with the aid of the small blade of a pocket-knife; or its feet may be slotted and held by two dog screws, which require half a turn in, and the dial can be lifted off. Do not force an enamel dial; it will not spring, but crack. Gold or silver dials, and some white ones, are snapped on like box lids over the top edge of the watch plate, and can be removed by levering up at the edge with a pocket-knife.

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