How To Care For Watches

      It feels good when we wear watches that can be an added value to our performance due to the attraction posed to people who were around. The attraction is not only watches price or the model resulting from the hour but also of beauty and hygiene watches. Because of expensive clock with nice model though will lose its beauty if the color and shape is no longer maintained.

       The beauty and cleanliness of the watch we will get if we know what things we can do in taking care of the watch so that its beauty is still awake. The following will explain some tips on caring for your beloved watches.

1. Beware of the battery. If your watch battery is not functioning or damaged, immediately replace it with a new battery. This was done to avoid the release of lookups of defective batteries that can damage your engine watches. Also use a battery that is according to your watch and buy it in the shop at trusted.

2. Avoid placing the clock hands near or on top of an object that has magnetic power. Items that have a magnetic power can have a detrimental effect on watch when we put our favorite watches. Magnets produced by such objects will generate attractive forces on the components of your favorite watches. The object that has a magnetic power including refrigerators, loudspeaker, DVDs, magnets, and more.

3. Avoid the use of chemicals that have direct contact with your watch. When cleaning the beloved watches make sure you do not use chemicals. Make sure you are using the liquid recommended by trusted store hours. It may cause discoloration damage your watch.

4. Watches Always Keep Dry. Although your watch has a stainless steel and waterproof technology, do not use role in activities that can make the watch wet, such as bathing or diving. Because the water is constantly left wet wristwatch will have the effect of damaging, even capable of causing corrosion. If your watches due to liquids, use a soft cloth to clean it. It was intended to avoid the formation of scratches on the surface of the clock.

5. Do not wear your watch when doing strenuous activity. Strenuous activity you do can lead to a variety of risks that could cause damage to your watch. As the risk of shock, friction, sun burns, liquid chemical and mechanical damage.

6. Make sure the head gear (crown) is in the normal position when adjusting hours. Make sure your hands are locked crown at the normal position every time you adjust the position of the clock. It's function is to avoid the entry of water or liquid into the machine watches that can cause damage.

7. Serve. If there is damage to the service should service or store brands of watches suitable watches you become a suitable place to fix your watch.

That's all I can share at this post, may be useful. See you in the next post :)

The Parts of Watches

We usually wear a watch just for the style, so we bought a model watches which cute, unique, and interesting. But we do not know the parts of watches. Now, I'll tell you about the parts of watches.

1. The Mainspring
The mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon that is the source of power in mechanical watches and some other clock. Rolls timepiece, by turning a knob or key, stores energy in the mainspring by twisting the spiral tighter. The force of the mainspring then turns the clock wheel as the release roll, until the next roll is needed.
The mainspring is made in three forms:
-Spiral coiling: coiling in the same direction in a simple spiral.
-Semi-reverse: End of outer spring coiled in the opposite direction less than 360°
-Reverse (tough): the outer end of the spring is coiled in the reverse direction exceeds 360°

2. The Escapement
The escapement is a tool that transfers energy to the element of timeliness and lets count the number of oscillations of the timekeeping element. In horology, the second function is called impulse action and locking action of the escapees. Escape is the source of the ticking sound in watches and clocks.

3. Mainspring Barrel
Barrel is a cylindrical metal box closed by a cover, with a ring of gear teeth around it, containing a spiral spring called the mainspring, which provides power to run the timepiece. Mainspring barrel is arranged so that the gear can rotate and move. Consists of three main parts: Crown Barrel, Ratchet Barrel and Main Wheel. Barrels rotate slowly: for a watch mainspring barrel, the rate is usually one rotation every 8 hours.







4. Bezel
Bezel is part of the watches are designed for protecting the watch face, or like a ring that is placed around the wrist watch to hold the glass in order not to loose. It's not funny if when we were clapping or hitting mosquitoes suddenly the glass off and then rolling on the floor.





5. Dial

Dial was serving the whole of the clock information from the second, minute, hour, date, day, (sometimes) months, stop watch, the numbers / symbols time, name of manufacturer, type of winder, get waterproof / no, hold depth how meter (water resistant watch only), etc..

History

The oldest clock in the world was called sundial clock. This clock was made by an expert Astronomy Muslim named Ibnu al-Shatir around 3500 BC. This clock shows the time based on the location of the sun, by utilizing the shadow that hit a flat surface marked with the hours in a day. Ibnu al-Shatir split time in the day to 12 hours, in the winter is a short time, while in the summer time is longer. 

Sundial developed among ancient cultures Babylonian, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Chinese, and Japanese. Sundial oldest ever found by Chaldean Berosis, who lived around 340 BC. Some sundials other artifacts found in Tivoli, Italy in 1746, at the Castel Nuovo in 1751, in Rigano in 1751, and in Pompeii in 1762.

In 1300 BC Ctesibus of Alexandria made ​​the clock using instruments sand. Sand which filled in the tube fell through a narrow tube section to indicate a specific time. Then, the tube was turned 180 degrees to repeat the measurement of time. In the history of clock, also known term water clock. The water clock's work system is basically the same with the sand clock.

Now, advances in science and technology is increasing at encouraging the creation of more innovative. The wrist watch were first made by Patek Philippe in 1868. Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany had ordered this watch making as many as 2,000 items to be given to prospective German naval officer. 

Technological developments in the field of watches opened the market for all types of goods related to the clock. Currently, there are many well-known brands of watches available in the market. Watches best people are made in Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.