It is recommended that high-end watches should be maintained every 1 to 2 years, replace waterproof components, detect travel time performance and movement power consumption, clean the movement and maintain the appearance. This maintenance service will effectively extend the use time of your mechanical watch.
Mechanical watch 10 ultra-simple maintenance methods
1, wear a watch, the sweat on the hand is corrosive to the case, the steel case is due to nickel-chromium alloy, better corrosion resistance, the semi-steel case is copper, long-term contact with sweat, easy to corrosion, should often use a soft cloth to wipe the sweat or pad on the plastic table to prevent it from being eroded by sweat.
2, do not open the back cover of the watch at will, so as to avoid dust entering the movement to affect the normal work of the watch.
3, do not put the watch in the wardrobe with mothballs, so as to avoid the deterioration of the oil.
4, do not put the watch on the power amplifier, audio, TV, so as to avoid magnetization.
5, long-term storage does not wear the watch, should be regularly wound once a month, the automatic movement of the watch should gently swing back and forth for a few minutes or wear on the wrist for a period of time to make it automatically wound. The parts will not be in a static state for a long time to ensure the running performance of the table machine.
6, ordinary mechanical watches by the tide, dry cotton can be pressed on the watch, and then baked with a 40-watt light bulb for 5 minutes, the moisture in the table can all be evaporated. If the quartz electronic watch is affected by the tide, it is advisable to several small pieces of calcium chloride, wrapped in gauze; Then open the cover of the electronic watch, the calcium chloride and the electronic watch together into a non-leaking plastic bag or glass bottle, sealed. Generally, the tide can be removed in about 3 hours, so that the electronic watch can return to normal. The moisture absorption time can be extended appropriately for the table with serious moisture.
7, received a beloved watch, remove the outer packaging, be sure to save the packaging box used to protect the watch. These protective watch boxes can give the watch the safest protection when it is usually not worn, to avoid the watch being broken or collided, so the box is absolutely necessary to retain, and it is recommended that when you do not wear a watch on weekdays, develop a habit of putting it into the box, you can greatly reduce the probability of damage to the watch.
8, usually it is best not to wear the same watch every day, should be prepared to use several different watches alternately, in addition to enrich the personal shape, but also to avoid dust, body scale all concentrated on the same watch. For the leather strap, more care should be taken, so as not to cause regular wear and tear of the strap every day, so even if the surface is new, the watch will look very old.
9, wear the watch on the wrist to sleep, if the watch is a luminous watch, it will bring adverse effects to the body. This is because the luminous watch pointer and dial coated with luminous materials, mainly a mixture of radium and zinc sulfide, radium emitted rays can stimulate zinc sulfide crystal light, sleep, if wearing a watch, the human body will be subjected to eight to nine hours of radium radiation, there is a certain harm to the human body. Therefore, before going to bed, it is best to take down the luminous watch and put it on the table.
10, the table mask renovation. After the watch is marked out a lot of lines, you can drop one or two drops of water on the watch, and then squeeze a little toothpaste to wipe, you can remove the lines and make the watch as new.