WATCHES ARE HARD WORKERS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 742, 3 February 1915, Page 7

WATCHES ARE HARD WORKERS.

"Have your ever stopped to consider how much work a watch does each twenty-four hours ?" asked a jeweller; His query was actuated by comments made by Ms companion, standing against, the, counter watching the endless throng passing the door, upon the seemingly intermiaable workday of the human race. '"No? Well, it is surprising the "number of movements a watch makes each day," he continued. n 'lf any fiuman being attempted the same number of motions he would expire from exhaustion long before the first twenty-four hours could pass. Yet the watch keeps going year in and year out without a whimper, and frequently without being gisren its proper food, a drop of oil here and there.

'•'Compared to other machinery, that of a watch does the moist work and requires th 3 least attention. Reason for it is hardly explainable, for there is the same amount of wear and tear, a similar abrasion in proportion to the size of the movement machinery, that there is in the motor of an automobile. "But to return to the amount of work a watch does in a day. In the first place, and,largest in the scope of work performed, the tiiny roller jewel makes a total of 432,000 impacts against the fork each 24 hours. That surely is marvellous. Try making semi-circular movements with—your hands, and see the amount of energy you will expend in five minutes' movdng your arm as rapidly as, does the roller jewel.

[''Then there's the second hand. That makes a total of 86,400 strokes in each 24 hours. Yet the power back of all these motions or impulses is derived from a tiny spring that can be snapped with, a flick of the finger. I dare say that no element of power human ingenuity has devised performs as much ' faithful work, or so great a quantity of effort, as that tiny spring and the delicate pieces of machinery it propels." -"Montreal Standard."