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Tips for clean and maintain your wristwatch

So you bought a new watch. Congratulations! Doesn't matter if you got fashion watch like Michael Kors Watches or luxury watch TAG Heuer Watches or Breitling Watches- you probably want it work as long as possible. It's difficult to be too nice to your wristwatch, even if it's a Rolex. We need watches to be sturdy because they go through a lot, just as we do. Some people take better care of their watch and some take it to the extreme. But a clean watch is a happy watch and proper watch maintenance can make you and your watch friends for years to come.

First thing do is to check the manual. Although your watch operation isn't really rocket science, you'll find the handy instructions helpful and you might want to keep them at hand. Bedsides letting you know what your watch can or can't do, it will provide you with any special requirements and instruction that your watch might have and also some cleaning tips.

Every manufacturer will recommend taking the watch in, for maintenance work, every 2 years or so. If you and your watch are an active couple, you might want to spoil your watch with new water proof or resistant materials, body wax and shine, fix the movement and test the overall status of your beloved timepiece.

When a watch is dirty it wears faster. This is true to every part of the watch, from the bracelet to the crown. When the bracelet is dirty and sticky, you should detach the bracelet and let is soak in soapy water. When you finish soaking, scrub the bracelet, the links, and hinges on both sides and remove the residue. It's best to dry the bracelet with a cloth that will not leave lint between the links. If you can not remove the bracelet and your watch is not waterproof - take it to a watchmaker or jeweler and let them do the work for you.

Same goes for the crown. If there is dirt, it can get into your case and destroy the inside. If you think you can handle taking your watch apart, make sure you know what you are doing and how to put it back. If not - take it to a jeweler or a watchmaker.

You'll need a clean workspace, a small and delicate screwdriver set, tweezers and remember to breathe regularly. Use special parts cleaner and soak the parts and screws that you take off, one by one, in their order, so you won't mix them up later. Clean the parts with a small brush and make sure they get dry.

If you are really brave, you can also oil the inside springs, hands and basically take the entire thing apart and soak it in the cleaner. But we're not going to tell you how. We don't need any angry emails...

Quartz Watches VS Mechanical Watches!

1. Simple tips to distinguish quartz Watches and mechanical watches
Usually, you can get the point via simply looking for the engraved text on back of the case, "QUARTZ" or "AUTOMATIC". Besides, you could also distinguish them by the way the indicators go, mechanical watches tick, though, quartz watches hand sweeps smoothly instead of ticking once every second. Occasionally, if the watch ticks two or four seconds at a time, dont worry, it's still a quartz watch! But take note: when this happens, you may check your battery, consider replacing it since some high grade watch informs you it's power off via ticking two or four seconds at a time.

2. The Pros and Cons of Mechanical Watches:
Mechanical could be divided into the following two: Manual winding up and Automatic. They're both powered from the spring integrated into watch movement, the spring drives gears and indicators, but different where their power come from. The former can be winded up manually, their movement are normally thinner than automatic watches, so is the weight of watches. Automatic watches are drived by the power derived from the swing of auto device, thicker and heaver than manual winding up watches.

Cons: Higher inaccuracy than quartz watches, depending on the manufacturing quality and due to the influence of gravitation from earth. Generally speaking, the error for a mechanical watch can be low to S/D(seconds per day), but it's S/M(seconds per month) for a quartz watch!

Pros: If maintained regularly, it can last for rather long.

3. The Pros and Cons of Quartz Watches
Quartz, an white oxide consisted of sio2, vibrates when placed in oscillator circuit, under special condition, it delivers its frequency back to circuit. People take full use of this feature into quartz movement, transfering electricity into kinetic energy via quartz oscillator. One circuit board with resistance and capacitance device, a watch movement is done, then assembled by case, crystal and bracelet, that will be a complete quartz watch!

Cons: Most of quartz batteries last for only one or two years, then you have to replace it with a new item. Second, since quartz watches feature quartz oscillator, which will decay after five to eight years use, and no longer accurate as before, it's time to get replaced, though, due to the development of modern industry, and high human cost, it is not worth changing these small components manually, alternatively, why not replace your watch with a new quartz movement?