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What Do You Oil Pocket Watches With - Alice In Wonderland

  1. CanberraOmega Rabbitohs and Whisky Supporter May 26, 2013

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    Hi all,
    So I am re-reading Alice in Wonderland, which I try and do every year, and as this is the first time I've read it since starting watch collecting, I particularly enjoyed this conversation between Alice, the Hatter and the March Hare



    The Hatter was the first to break the silence. `What day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.

    Alice considered a little, and then said `The fourth.'

    `Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.

    `It was the best butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.

    `Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'

    The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It was the best butter, you know.'

    Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. `What a funny watch!' she remarked. `It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!'

    `Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. `Does your watch tell you what year it is?'

    `Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: `but that's because it stays the same year for such a long time together.'

    `Which is just the case with mine,' said the Hatter.
     
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  2. MyVintageOmega May 26, 2013

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    Moebius Watch and Clock Oil..............fine for jeweled, light for non.
     
  3. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member May 26, 2013

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    I use the the heaviest oil possible. Slows down time. imazges.jpg
     
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  4. MyVintageOmega May 27, 2013

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