A watch depends for its accuracy on a delicate balance of the metal wheels and levers. When metal is heated it expands. The adjustment should be such to compensate for this. But if a watch has been accustomed to the heat of a particular wrist, and is put on Another, the difference in temperature often causes it to fail in accuracy, or to stop.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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