II.      Tips for wearing mechanical watches

1.   About the duration of wear

Automatic mechanical watches are wound automatically by the arm swing up when daily wear to supplement energy reserve of the spring for operation. When the wearing duration is less than 8 hours or the arm swing is less, the watch stops operation or runs slowly due to insufficient energy.

Nowadays, for people who work in the office are common, their watches often stop. In addition to the movement, the wearer’s lack of exercise cannot add enough energy to the clockwork. It is recommended to develop the habit of adding energy to the clockwork. The manual method is used to wind about 20 laps as energy reserve to obtain better travel performance. After full winding, it can run for more than 36 hours if it is put aside.

2    About error

The accuracy of a watch is a comprehensive measurement indicator. People always hope that their watches run accurately. This is possible for quartz watches, but for mechanical watches, their accuracy is determined by the vibration frequency generated by the balance wheel, which is also affected by the internal and external factors such as the position difference, temperature, clockwork torque, magnetic field, etc., and the meticulous adjustment can only reduce errors relatively but cannot completely eliminate such errors.

The timing error for a mechanical watch is measured by the daily error (-20 ~ +50 sec / day). It is recommended to adjust the watch once a week according to the standard time.

An important reason for inaccurate timing is that it is subject to magnetic interference, that is, if interfered in the magnetic field environment, it will be manifested as inaccurate time. When leaving the magnetic field environment, the interference naturally disappears and the watch returns to normal timing.

When wearing it, it may be exposed to the strong magnetic field environment, such as computer mainframe, mobile phone, TV monitor, speaker, earphone, induction cooker, electric mahjong table, magnetic car door, magnetic buckle of shoulder bag, etc., which is easy to make the watch magnetic, leading to incorrect timing.

Secondly, if you use computer frequently, you should pay attention to keeping your watch as far as possible from the mainframe, and pay attention to the location of mainframe, with your left hand wearing the watch and the mainframe placed on the right.

If you are driving, be careful not to put the arm with the watch on the left door. The remote electronic door is easy to magnetize the watch; don’t put your watch in a hopper with CDs, DVDs, or VCDs. These are the culprit of magnetized watches.

Do not put the watch in a place with a lot of oil and gas, so that the watch will not be stained with oil, which will cause water to enter the watch and affect the hairspring operation.

In addition, do not put your watch near the radio, TV, mobile phone, or telephone; if you use computer frequently, you should pay attention to the location of mainframe, with the left hand wearing the watch and the mainframe placed on the right.

Degauss with special equipment for degaussing