The watch and the clock by Taylor Alfred 1831-1899

Author:Taylor, Alfred, 1831-1899
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Clocks and watches. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, Phillips & Hunt; Cincinnati, Welden & Stowe
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

" WaFr," said the captain, handing it over, and shaking-hira heartily by the hand, " a parting gift, my lad. Put it back half an liour every morning, and about another quarter toward the afternoon, and it's a watch that'll do you credit."

Such time-keeping as that might serve Captain Cuttle's purposes, but it would not answer now. With railroad trains and steam-boats which depart on time, with appointments which must be kept to the moment, with many important interests depending on exact punctuality, our watches must be as accurate as the motion of the sun. A man having bought a new watch, stood on the sea-shore with the treasure in his hand just before sunrise, and said to his friend who stood beside him : " There, now, it is one minute to sunrise. If the sun don't begin to lift himself out of that ocean in sixty seconds, why, he'll be late, that's all." Thirty years ago, when rigidly exact "punctuality was in hardly as great demand as now, a young man who was just beginning business was introduced by his father to a wealthy and somewhat eccentric capitalist, with whom he hoped to have some business transactions. The result of the first interview was that the capitalist said to the young man, *'Come to my office to-morrow at one minute past twelve." The young man was amused at such an appointment, and mentioned his amusement to his father. The father said, " Well, my boy, do you see that your watch is right, and enter his office precisely at one minute past twelve." The youth did so, and at once found himself in favor with the capitalist, with whom he afterward had many transactions.

The systematic division of labor in Switzerland has done much toward securing accuracy among the watch-makers of that country. Workmen there are patient and plodding, and have not the ambition for change and progress that American mechanics generally have. Pieces of metal are cut out at the watch factories, and given to workmen at their homes

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