Many cousins have a sense of "stinky beauty" from the first time they bought a watch, and in order to "be worthy of our watch", the money is really spent. Today, I always feel that my watch is slow, so let's fix it. Tomorrow, I heard on a certain platform that a mechanical watch needs a watch shaker, so go buy one. The day after tomorrow, I saw on Weibo that a big coffee recommended a watch care solution, so I bought another bottle, how much of it is really effective, and how much of it is paid IQ tax, only I know.
Spending money on the edge of the knife rather than on the back of the knife is something that needs to be learned after wearing a watch. Today, the girl will share with you some small knowledge about the ...... of planting grass and pulling weeds after wearing a watch
First of all, there are a lot of product promotions on the Internet about the self-maintenance of watches. From a scientific point of view, let's analyze some of the most popular concepts and products on the market one by one, for the sake of your watch, is it worth buying.
1.Meter shaker
After all, the girl has been wandering the bezel for many years, although she is not senior, but at least she is an old cousin. Usually, there are a lot of bezel whites who ask me some questions about watches, and the most asked is to buy a watch shaker
After all, I spent a lot of money to buy a watch, and I am still short of that one or two hundred meter shaker?!
Many first-time watchmakers think that they have a thorough understanding of the operating principle of mechanical watches, and think that mechanical watches cannot be stopped, for fear that mechanical watches will cause permanent damage as soon as they stop, so they need a watch shaker to replace people on the wind.
If you're for this reason, then the girl recommends not buying a watch shaker, why?
First of all, the watch shaker is an electric device that replenishes the power of the automatic mechanical watch. To put it simply, it actually refers to a high-end watch box with a motor. The box contains a rotating subdial that rotates slowly under the auspices of a micromotor, and the mechanical watch is placed in this dial to achieve the effect of self-winding.
The implication is that the watch shaker is designed to ensure that the mechanical watch works non-stop. However, in reality, while the movement itself is inherently worn, a stop does not wear out the movement and does not cause any permanent damage.
On the contrary, if you do not use a watch shaker, you can reduce the extra running friction, which is better for the watch. However, it is important to ensure that the mechanical gears are wound once a month to keep them lubricated, which can extend the life of the mechanical watch and ensure the accuracy of the time.
If you have a lot of watches, it is also troublesome to re-wind and re-adjust the time every time you change watches, so you need a watch shaker.
2.Watch tempered film
This is very common for mobile phone films, and you may not have heard much of watch films!However, the girl was asked by a cousin a few days ago: Does the watch need to be filmed?
The glass is an important part of a watch, not only to isolate moisture and dust, but also to protect the dial and movement. At present, there are three kinds of glass materials on the market: plastic mirror, quartz glass mirror, and sapphire glass mirror, and it is more common for usSapphire glass mirror
Sapphire glass generally refers to synthetic sapphires, which are very different from the natural sapphires that people usually understand as jewelry. Its main component is aluminum oxide, which is a colorless transparent material, and tungsten titanium alloy and high-tech ceramics are anti-wear materials. Although these materials are resistant to wear and tear, they cannot withstand strong impacts.
Therefore, your watch film is to prevent scratches, in fact, it is not practical at all, watch manufacturers invest a lot of money every year to develop stronger and more wear-resistant mirror materials, you do not enjoy the convenience brought by technology, but want to use a piece of glass tempered film to make it lose the value it should have, isn't that a superfluous move?!
The above mentioned cannot withstand strong impacts, but it will also be stronger than the tempered film for dozens of dollars. So sometimes the watch falls to the ground, and the film is broken and the glass is fine, but in fact, it is not the tempered film that blocks the watch screen, but the watch glass is stronger than the tempered film. When the impact is strong, what should be broken will still break.
Moreover, some anti-glare sapphire crystals, if a tempered film is added, in addition to reducing the light transmittance, it will also cause the light to refract, resulting in uneven light transmission on the surface, which will affect the reading effect, and even for some watches with simplified scales, it is easy to lead to misreading.
3.Watch demagnetizer
We all know that both mechanical and quartz watches are afraid of magnetic fields. Once the watch is magnetized, the light one will seriously affect the time, and the heavy one will cause the watch to stop directly.
The reason for this is that the watch is under the influence of magnetic force, and the mechanical parts are attracted by the magnetic force, and the gears will of course not turn. After the magnetic force is gone, the gears can move around on their own again. Sometimes the magnetic force will also adhere to the mechanical parts of the watch, which will greatly affect the rotation of the watch, which is obviously manifested by the slow movement of the watch.
At this point, do you think I'm here to spit out the degausser?Nope!
What the girl wants to say is that sometimes the watch just needs to be demagnetized, so it is better to have a demagnetizer of dozens of dollars to do it yourself, and you have to go to the repair shop to spend this money. Sometimes, you may encounter an unscrupulous repair shop that will directly help you open the lid and inspect it.
The principle of the watch demagnetizer is to use the AC power supply to generate an alternating magnetic field to demagnetize the hairspring of a mechanical watch. About a few tens of yuan a unit (the inside is a coil, with an iron core in the middle, connected to 50Hz alternating current, generating alternating magnetic field demagnetization), can also be self-made.
So how do you know if your watch is magnetized?You can first use a compass next to the watch to see if the compass can have strong fluctuations, if there is, it is magnetized, otherwise it is not magnetized.
Today's sister analyzed the 3 products, I don't know if you have started?Anyway, on the road of wearing watches, the girl hopes that you don't have to pay the IQ tax anymore