Engine-drivers have often declared their. watches kept excellent time while on a regular route. But once a new route was being worked, the accuracy of their watches suffered until accustomed to the change, while a man who worked on a long stretch followed. by a long rest failed to keep his watch working with regularity.
Motorists' watches are sometimes affected in like manner, Even the simple act of changing the position say, from one pocket to the other ~has been known to disturb the delicate mechanism of an otherwise good watch and impair time-keeping qualities.
Very often it is impossible to regulate such watches unless the conditions under which they went wrong is known beforehand. If the temperament of each customer is briefly defined at the time, so much better for the watch-maker and client alike.
Another reason why shop-testing sometimes fails is that watches connected with the same wall, or shelf, -have such a sympathetic effect in keeping time that they stop those which beat in a regular time, and if any are at rest, set agoing those. which beat accurately.
Commonly speaking, the autumn of the year is not favourable to the regularity of most watches. This, by reason of the extreme changes of temperature. A watch which has been carried in one's pocket all
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