A watchmaker recently contributed an article in a home paper on watches. Below are some extracts It is not everyone who can wear a Watch. At least, not every watch works with such regularity on "one body's person as on another. The explanation is simple. Modern vest-pocket} machinery is often so delicately adjusted that it becomes affected by the temperament of its wearer—that is, affected by personal magnetism.
For example, a couple of months back a lady brought me hex watch as often as once every three days, complaining it was either too fast or too slow. Each time I tried it i ran beautifully, but once on the Jady's person the irregularity of the watch was noticeable.
On inquiry, I found that she was of a highly nervous temperament while at other times she suffered from attacks of melancholia. Whatever her mental state, the watch recorded it. When she was vivacious it worked fast. When she was in_a low mood it went slow. _Not only are gentlemen's watches similarly affected, but the timepieces are also greatly influenced by excess bodily, electricity. Even a peculiar gait necessitating an awkward movement of the body is responsible for the throwing of some watches out of gear, and more than one man has had to abandon the watch repairing business because he magnetized the delicate hairsprings.
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