WATCHES CROW TIRED.
"I suppose," said the watchmaker to a friend who had just handed him his watch for repairs, "you do not know that watches, like human beings, sometimes don't 'go ' for the reason that they are tired out and n?ed resting. "Sometimes a watch is brought to me which is all right. Nothing about it is out of order, and it is fairly clean. When they become sulky end refuse to run except by fits and starts the best thing to do is to lay them aside for a good rest. The mechanism in a ' tired ' watch seems to be in perfect condition, but it just won't work. The fact is, that long and faithful service has thrown it slightly out of adjustment in perhaps a dozen different places. Scraping and cleaning and readjusting a fine watch are the worst things that could be done to it. A month's rest will instead cause the works slowly to readjust themselves, and at the end of that time, after careful oiling, the watch will go as cheerfully as ever."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 508, 12 October 1912, Page 7
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179WATCHES CROW TIRED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 508, 12 October 1912, Page 7
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