Why Watch Maintenance?

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 and heat are the two biggest problems associated with rust inside of your watch. Even if your watch is water-resistant, make sure you put your watch in a position where it does not have to resist anything. Water resistant is not the same as water proof. If water gets inside of your watch, it's pretty much a given you will be down at the local watch-smith's shop for a cleaning session.

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.

Here's an odd tip, but it really does make sense; do not change the date on your watch within three hours of midnight. This has nothing to do with Gremlins who you are not supposed to feed after midnight, but with the gears inside the watch. The watch at this point is gearing up (get it?) to change the date internally during this time and you changing the date yourself interferes with this. Any other time is a fine time to change the date.

You should wind every watch once a week. Even the batter powered ones. Doing so helps spread the oil in the watch around the gears and keeps them running smoothly. A smooth running watch is an accurate watch and no one gets a watch to be late. Following me June bug?

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.

Schedule regular time, about once every two years, with a watch maker. They will examine your watch and give her a tune up. This is very important because even if your watch is running perfectly fine, it still needs to be checked internally for rust, oiled and cleaned. Doing so will help ensure that you keep on getting a good time. Wow, that was my worst pun yet.

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