If you want your watch to dazzle and impress long into its life, and to be able to keep time long after its initial calibration, then proper maintenance of watches is of critical importance. Luckily, however, in order to take good care of your watch you don’t have to be a master watchmaker!
First off it’s important to remember that watches are highly attuned mechanical pieces and this means that they are uniquely fragile and sensitive to even the slightest disruption. This usually precludes them from being washed in liquids (apart from some water resistant models) and therefore it’s best to clean your item with a soft brush.
Before cleaning your gents watches, if possible you should detach the bracelet, which can then be cleaned via more traditional and effective methods such as with a detergent and water solution. With the actual timepiece itself, on the other hand, you could very gently use a toothbrush or, ideally, use a cleaner specially formulated for gents watches. If you have a particularly complex mechanical watch or the dirt is particularly embedded within the watch the best idea is to take it to a specialist cleaner who will be able to use the latest methods for cleaning watches, such as with ultrasonics.
Indeed watches are often bought with inheritance in mind, and therefore it is important that their value remains ostensive decades and even centuries in the future, and therefore the correct maintenance of your watch is not only a matter for your own enjoyment of the piece but is a matter for generations to come!
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