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How To Look After Your Watch
We buy watches and never give it a thought as to how to take care of them!
Here are some ideas:
Hand-wound watches
With a new watch, wear it every day for at least two weeks. First wind the watch, then set the hands.
Wind slowly and regularly.
Wind daily, if possible, in the morning.
Automatic watches
With a new watch, wear it every day for at least two weeks.
First wind the watch, then set the hands.
With watches like CITIZEN Elegance Signature BI0124-57P, INVICTA 9012 Automatic Pro Diver, SEIKO Alarm Chronograph SNA065, and CASIO Baby-G BG167V-5V and many more.
When winding an automatic, count the number of times you turn the crown. Thirty to forty revolutions guarantee optimum torque.
If you wear your watch every ray and take it off at night; there is no reason to wind it by hand.
Setting the date with hand-wound & automatic watches
Never use the rapid-advance feature between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m.
Never wind the hands back beyond 12 midnight.
Special instructions apply to watches with a perpetual calendar like the Citizen Calibre BL8010-51A, the Seiko SLL003 and other models. Please see the operating instructions for watches with these complications.
Quartz watches
Most watches are Quartz like WENGER Millenia 72366, SEIKO Diamond Watch SUJ503, INVICTA Magro 9413 and many more.
Pull out crown to "hands position" if the watch will not be worn for a long period of time.
Have the battery checked every two years.
Only allow an official IWC agent to change the battery.
Water-resistant watches
With watches like INVICTA 2504 Swiss Automatic Diver 25J, MOVADA 601926 18 KT Gold Micron Finish Accents, HAMILTON H021111929 Leather Strap and many more.
Remove water-resistant watches before showering (soap reduces the surface tension of water and allows it to attack seals very effectively)
Have your watch checked at least once annually and have the seals replaced if necessary.
If condensation appears on the inside of the glass, take your watch to a watchmaker immediately.
Check that the crown is screwed in before swimming or bathing.
After swimming in the sea or in water containing chlorine, rinse the watch under running tap water.
Temperature, shocks, magnetic fields
Avoid extreme fluctuations of temperature.
Avoid extreme shocks and vibrations. Strap the watch firmly to your wrist.
Avoid lengthy periods in strong magnetic fields.
Service intervals
On average, every four to five years.
Leather straps, glasses
With Leather Straps on watches like CARRERA Stainless Steel Chronograph CR09GUUSK2, CITIZEN AT1012-00A Gold Tone Eco-Drive, INVICTA 2616 Brown Leather Strap and many more.
Change the leather strap of a watch that is worn daily every one to one-and-a-half years.
Scratches on Plexiglas can be removed by polishing
Sapphire glass is scratch-resistant
With watches like SEIKO Arctura Kinetic Auto Relay SNG041 and SEIKO Premiere SUJ413.
Sapphire glass characteristic
The hardness of sapphire is extremely high which is scale 9 of moh's scale, only second to diamond. This also explains why watch crystals made of sapphire have a very good mechanical strength, wear and weather resistance. Sapphire is commonly used in high — class watches.
Sapphire is chemically very stable, insoluble in watch, resistant to acids and alkaline. Sapphire only reacts with hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid and potassium hydroxide at high temperature of above 300 degree Celsius. Sapphire has over 95% light transmission rate on natural light ray and over 85% on infrared ray. Because of its excellent transmission for infrared ray, sapphire is also widely used as infrared filters in military and industrial applications.
Have new glass fitted immediately if the glass is cracked.
Enjoy your watch!
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