Music was such an important part of life in the Baroque era that it can be found in all kinds of places. This instrument, the Trompe Dauphine, is a kind of hunting horn and would have been carried on horseback during the hunt and used to play signals to let the rest of the hunt know what was happening.
As a general rule: 1  Quartz models should be given a routine service every other time the battery is changed. 2  Regular mechanical models should need routine service only every 5 years or so. 3  OMEGA states that their Coaxial models should need routine service only every 10 years.
[news]. It is sometime since I had my 20 year old automatic Omega Seamaster cleaned and serviced, and it is beginning to show signs of poor time keeping. Time for a bit of TLC..... I have previously sent it to Omega through local agents for service but now question the economics of doing so.