You new watch is a vision of elegance and style the likes of which have not been seen since Avarice. Now that you got it you want to keep it. Besides locking it up every night to keep the kids from dropping it into a vat of pancake batter, there are some things you need to know about to take care of your investment right off the bat.

First off let's just say that maintaining your watch will keep it running more accurately and longer. Without regular maintenance you run the risk of not only an inaccurate piece but turning your nice watch into nothing more than a really wide bracelet. So keeping up with a watch maintenance schedule is important.

Water and heat are the two biggest problems associated with rust inside of your watch. Even if your watch is water-resistant, make sure you put your watch in a position where it does not have to resist anything. Water resistant is not the same as water proof. If water gets inside of your watch, it's pretty much a given you will be down at the local watch-smith's shop for a cleaning session.

Remove your watch when showering, swimming, before entering a sauna or any other activity that might expose your watch to moisture. If you expose the watch to saltwater, rinse with fresh water. The solvency of salt water is higher than that of fresh water so you're better off rinsing then literally hanging your watch up to dry.

Here's an odd tip, but it really does make sense; do not change the date on your watch within three hours of midnight. This has nothing to do with Gremlins who you are not supposed to feed after midnight, but with the gears inside the watch. The watch at this point is gearing up (get it?) to change the date internally during this time and you changing the date yourself interferes with this. Any other time is a fine time to change the date.

You should wind every watch once a week. Even the batter powered ones. Doing so helps spread the oil in the watch around the gears and keeps them running smoothly. A smooth running watch is an accurate watch and no one gets a watch to be late. Following me June bug?

Make sure you only wind your watch once a day. This is also important when you think about how your mechanical watch runs on tension. The theory behind a once a day winding is to keep from wearing out the tensioning mechanism in the watch. This is why some people end up with broken timepieces a lot of times; over winding. Once a day Marvin.

Schedule regular time, about once every two years, with a watch maker. They will examine your watch and give her a tune up. This is very important because even if your watch is running perfectly fine, it still needs to be checked internally for rust, oiled and cleaned. Doing so will help ensure that you keep on getting a good time. Wow, that was my worst pun yet.

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