SENSITIVE TIMEPIECE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13421, 19 March 1914, Page 2

SENSITIVE TIMEPIECE.

"Are watches and clocks sensitive to personal magnetism?" asks a correspondent of the "Daily Mail." "I know of a man in whose waistcoat no watch will tick long. He declares he has noticed an irregularity in the behaviour of clocks in rooms in which he has slept. My watchmaker tells me it is common knowledge in the trade that watches are greatly influenced by their owners." The manager of a big firm expressed the following opinion:— "In my experience watches .that go" perfectly in the pocket of one man will behave irregularly in the pocket of another. Ido not believe temperature of the body or any magnetic influence has anything to do with it. It is the action of the body of the wearer. A watch that keeps time, in the pocket of a ini'tt who walks with light footsteps will gain quickly when on a man who puts 1. is heels down hard and moves about ri'ore heavily." One watchmaker said he knew of a man whose personal magnetism was such that clocks had been known to disappear when he left a building!