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.
Most watches with date require you to manually adjust the date depending if the month has 30 or 31 days (or 28/29 for February). Only watches that donât require this are âperpetual calendarâ or âperpetual dateâ watches, these already have pre-programmed dates, usually for 99 years ahead.