Apple I Pad, important medical advice!

In the last few months I've had previously very accurate watches run amok a couple of times. I don't mean a few seconds a day here, I mean many minutes, sometimes several minutes per hour. Having worked around heavy magnets for years and having fried up a few vintages watches as a result I recognize the problem immediately, the damn thing is magnetized.

A quick trip to my watchmaker and some ribbing later sets things straight but how is this happening? These days I'm in an office tied to a desk or stuck in meetings and I'm not spending the evening working on magnetos at home so what's up?

Then I walk over to the piano to pick up the I Pad my wife bought me a few months ago, and the friggin thing wants to bring the piano hinge with it. The damn thing has quite the magnetic field! I sit this on my end table at night, often with my watch beside or even on it.

Quietly magnetizing my watch!

Further proof that technology is the enemy!

So everybody... toss your electronics and go buy vintage watches... it good for the soul

Could you put a watch that was running fast on this to see if it’s magnetised or has a damaged/jammed hairspring?

My Hamilton was magnetized badly enough to cause my compass to drift off north when you placed the watch beside it.